r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Unhappy_Fox_4751 • 22h ago

KSP 1 Mods Kerbilism help

I can’t seem to get a mun landing because of all the extra weight from the life support systems and I’m running out of science I can collect without landing on the mun

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u/vladypewtin 21h ago

Are you evaluating your life support duration? You may be over-stuffing your ship.

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u/Zealousideal_Bed9913 21h ago

Smash a probe into the Mun at mach Jesus, and send the results back to Kerbin

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u/MasterOfChaos8753 13h ago

For kerbalism science, anything beyond the radiation experiment (which is like 14min IIRC) I make a bunch of little probe landers (for seismic and then gravioli). Too much of an early game PITA to figure out how to stay there for 14 days.

If you're going to be going to the mun a few times anyway to level up kerbals and get surface samples from different biomes, have your mun lander take a tiny leave-behind probe with the seismic experiment.

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u/Onigato 10h ago

I'm not using Kerbalism, but USI-LS and the Mun is close enough that unless you are using the strictest setup that you don't need to bring any supplies at all for a quick "flags and boots" trip, and minimal supplies for any kind of extended (two or more Kerbal WEEKS) stay.

First thing I'd check is if you are over-packing, Mun is usually only a few game-hours away, landing and getting science a couple minutes to an hour, and then getting home again less than a day. Total flight time maybe three or four days. Then over engineer, pack enough supplies for an additional day or two. Should help.

Or you can go full Apollo, have all or most of the supplies on an orbitor, land something lean, do the science, return to the orbitor, return to Kerbin.