KSPI

Mission to Minmus

We've done an orbital flight and sent a robotic probe to the Mun, now we want to land somewhere else, Minmus!

And we're off

Launch goes off without a hitch

Minmus greater flats

Couldn't have pic a greater landing spot

Sub orbital hop

3 of these were done to max out the science potential

Discarding mass

Being careful to ditch waste mass so it crashed into Minmus

Minmus final landing

Coming up on the pole

Minmus pole

Had to overshoot the landing site to find somewhere flat, so it's winter and dark, but we're here!

Off we go!

I'm hungry and there's very little snacks, back to Kerbin post haste!

De-orbit burn

We have gallons of fuel to spare so we can slow our descent into the atmosphere.

More burning

Shed more weight the glimmer of the atmosphere shines through

Final burn

Getting lower now, about to ditch the drive stage

There she blows

Ejected below us, we see it descent beside us for a while as it's go a reasonable amount of fuel in.

Descent over the ocean

Descending further, bye bye drive stage.

Hitting atmo

Nice shock heating, fortunately we have a heat shield!

Chutes away

An uninteresting watery landing

Finally

Science, all of it