Landing at Kerbin without a chute
I've got a Duna lander. I used my chutes to land on Duna with basically no cost, which was nice. Unfortunately, I did not bring an engineer with me, as I did not know you needed one to repack chutes now. Now I cannot repack my chutes to land on Kerbin.
Are there any sneaky tricks for surviving a landing on Kerbin without parachutes? Or am I going to need to launch a rescue mission?
In terms of the power of my craft, I'm orbiting Duna with 2kdv (considering hitting Ike on the way back), vessel mass 5.4T total with a 909 engine.
Best Answer
If you have enough delta-v and powerful enough engines, you can land on kerbin using thrust to slow your descent to the ground. If you don't think so, I think a better solution would be to mount a rescue mission including an engineer to repack your chutes. I've tried firing landers up into high kerbin atmosphere and trying to land without chutes. It's possible, but it's extremely difficult. If you don't have SAS, it's even more so difficult.
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How do you land back on kerbin?
To land the plane, you need to touch down on your landing gear as gently as you can. The landing gear on the Aeris-3A is the LY-10 landing gear, which has a maximum impact speed of 50 m/s. You can control your speed both by changing your thrust and by pitching up and down.How do I get into kerbin in KSP?
To get back to Kerbin the easiest way (as suggested by Scott Manley) is to burn prograde at the point in your orbit where you're moving opposite to the direction the Mun is going in its orbit around Kerbin.KSP 1.0 - Landing without Parachutes on Kerbin
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Answer 2
I suggest you to send a small unmanned ship that you will connect to your Duna lander through the Clamp-O-Tron Docking Port. It should be cheaper and less heavy than a manned module for the engineer.
You will need at least one unmanned command module, a docking port, 2 chutes and a RCS system (thrusters and a tank) to perform the orbital rendez-vous. Then you'll need to launch this part with a rocket but since you went to Duna you already know how to do this.
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