The Glider has landed!

[MAPitard]

I landed on the moon today. It was sloppy and I almost missed, but with some incredibly desperate thrust I managed to land not too far from Brighton Beach. I have toyed around with orbiter before, but this was my first serious attempt at something.

 

[ar81]

You are lucky. the first time I landed on the moon, I crashed...
Congrats. i know the feeling... A small step for man...

 

[MAPitard]

Today I got very close to the ISS, our orbits were the same, and barely moving in relation to each other. I thrusted towards it with translation thrusters and got close enough that I could see the finest details, and my computer decided that it was getting to hot and powered down. I think I'll try again with lower settings. I cant seem to get the hang of Atlantis, but I love the Glider.

 

[eveningsky339]

My first flight to the moon involved running out of fuel, launching a rescue mission in a Coast Guard DGIV, and accidentally killing both spacecraft.

 

[RangerPL]

Atlantis is really hard to master...

And congratulations. I'm also new to orbiter, and I still need to master Earth-Moon Transfer and have to learn docking and IMFD.

The first time I flew to the moon... I ended up somewhere in deep space My second attempt got me a bit closer to the moon, but I ended up hitting its surface at 7km/s

 

[Arrowstar]

My second attempt got me a bit closer to the moon, but I ended up hitting its surface at 7km/s

At least they didn't feel anything.

I believe my first attempt at Orbiter involved trying to get off Earth and failing miserably. I quickly learned how important forward velocity is.

 

[ar81]

Instead of Atlantis, you may like Shuttle fleet addon by David413.

 

[Star explorer]

if getting into orbit with atlantis is the problem let me have a go at explaining it ok first launch basically than do a roll program wich is a translation to get your compass pointing 90 degrees east than wait until your fuel is 84.9 (you can be a little off though) than activate prograde let it do the rest keep power at full throttle if by the time your main engines cut out you dont have an orbit yet turn on those 2 little OMS engines until they boost you into orbit (watch your fuel though if it gets low turn off your OMS engines and prepare for a very bumpy reentry having no fuel left in orbit not the funnest thing in the world)

 

[Woo482]

well I have made it to the moon then I had a collision at about 5kms and the delta glider 4 bounced back in to a suborbital trajectory

 

[MAPitard]

I picked up a joystick today, so its much more fun now, but it will be hard to get used to.

Anyone have an Saitek Aviator? It has some toggle switches on the front that I can't get working.

 

[tomek]

...wait until your fuel is 84.9 (you can be a little off though) than activate prograde...

Keep in mind that it only works while you have the entire stack. Once SRBs separate, the acceleration vector is something like 20 degrees down, so you must pitch up to compensate.