How to land on the Moon and back! | Spaceflight Simulator 1.5 Tutorial

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[DesiredH]

Moment of silence to the 692 crew members that died by getting lost in space or accidentally flying to the sun under my command.

[titanicnerd]

Thank you so much, this helped me get to the moon and back, and it’s quite stressful at some points, but a feeling of accomplishment when you land on the moon and get back to earth.

[nithsk]

Going to the moon is the easy part. The hard part is driving your rover to your space base for five hours strait.

[gamerfromdiscord]

Epic video, I’m sure this clears up many things for new players who get confused by all the ‘lines’.

[menthu-sama]

Thank you. I have been trying to get onto the moon for YEARS and now I realize I was doing it wrong and I finally landed on the moon.

[starcatcherksp]

Simplified intructions:
1. Build a rocket (3 stages is the most ideal). You can even add side boosters. (Note: The third stage must contain landing legs and a seperator to seperate the capsule upon reentry, unless you're confident that you can land the whole stage softly. And use parachutes as well.)
2. Launching:
1. Use the first stage and side boosters to launch the rocket up beyond the Karman Line. If you ended up with enough fuel, use it to reach orbit too (although the side boosters will be seperated earlier)
2. Use the second stage to perform TLI (trans - lunar injection) that will send the craft to a trajectory across the Moon. The perigee must be below 100 km above the surface.
3. Use time - warp. Once the craft reached the perigee, burn retrograde (ignite the engine opposite to the direction of movement) to slow it down and throw it to a lunar orbit. Try to make it as circular as possible.
4. Seperate the third stage and once again burn retrograde, until the perigee becomes the apogee, and the new perigee reaches the Moon surface.
5. Continue to slow the spacecraft down, and activate the landing legs. In a range of 500m and below, try to make the velocity below 10 m/s in order to not destroy the legs.
6. And there you have it! A soft landing, but now we'll have to find a way back.
7. Throw the third stage into an orbit. Try to not make it below 5 km, as you cannot timewarp under that height and will waste a lot of time.
8. Burn in opposite the direction of the Moon's orbit, until the trajectory is finally outside the Moon's SOI (Sphere of influence)
9. Continue to burn until the perigee (compared to Earth's) is inside the atmosphere, or can even straight to Earth's surface.
10. Once you nearly reach the atmosphere, seperate the capsule, and then orientate heat - shield first.
11. The atmospheric drag will slow down the capsule considerably, and when under 2500 m, deploy the parachute and let the drag do it's work.

[unknwn]

Thanks for your help, one year ago I managed to make a full low orbit around the earth. Now I managed to fly around jupiter's moons. Thanks, again for your tutorial.

[strandsey]

Dude, i'm thanking you with my life. You got me my first moon landing.

[salmaahmed]

Best tutorial ever. I landed on the moonfor the first time after watching this. Thank you for such a great video

[idkwhoiam]

This is the clearest and smoothest tutorial i've ever seen on youtube for real. No cap

[menioneus]

this man, this legend was what all of us were looking for

[CJT]

This tutorial is great, but I couldn't get back to earth because in the new update they added the possibility of the rocket burning from too high speed when entering the atmosphere

[scifidino]

"How to land on the Moon and back"

Me: Build the rocket big enough! When your rocket has a LEO capacity of 3 300 tons, you basically can't fail! XD

[ezekielsilvio]

Thank you so much for the tutorial back then when i was new i would always burn in the atmosphere and i realize that i was doing it wrong thanks to you i was able to go to the moon and come back and now im able to fly to mars and land a rover thank you :)

[brentsiskjr]

Thank. You. So. Much. I'm a newbie and only played for half a week. I can get to the moon but I can never seem to get back. I thought it was much more complex, using those 6 wide fuel tanks and everything. I thought either it was a bit too heavy, it burned too much fuel, I didn't navigate good enough but really its so simple

[sus]

I have tried this with your tips, It was very helpful.

I landed there without separating 2nd stage from 1st stage, with bare fuel left on the 2nd stage.
also landed at the mare tranquillitatis, where originally the first humans had landed.

[edoru]

I hope my crew members trapped on the moon are still alive, so I can pick them up after watching this video.

[venmozz]

I made a whole falcon 9 heavy for this

[Niclol]

NASA: *builds saturn v
Soviet: *builds N1
me: we could just use a falcon 9 or this man's rocket to go moon

[Gd_kngC]

this was sooo helpful thank you for teaching me and I did it I landed on the moon in sfs and came back on earth! thank you so much!!