ha i don't care whether you copy everything or anything or nothing
mods used: ubioweld, mechjeb
how i got the rover to duna
1. launch the rover (kerbal rover23.craft) into a 75x75 orbit. manual launch is reccomended because mechjeb is a bit rough with the controls and a column or two sometimes breaks. four of the tanks will be drained of fuel next, and should be dropped. when in orbit, the rest of the tanks can be dropped (press space two more times). open panels with '1'
2. launch the tug (thrusters.craft) into a 75x75 orbit. when halfway into the gravity turn, 8 of the mainsails should be dropped. to do this, you must carefully align the craft with the prograde vector and throttle down a bit before staging. after getting into orbit, you should use the four remaining mainsails to rendevouz with the rover. dispose of the 4 mainsails and dock with the rover using the nerva and rcs
3. repeat step two with another tug. dock on the other port
4. now you have two nervas docked to the rover. from this point on, don't use mechjeb as the craft is too unstable to fly with mechjeb. also keep in mind that the nervas are facing retrograde, so you need to thrust opposite on the navball. expand your orbit until it is larger than the mun. this is because the nervas are too weak to escape from kerbin directly. wait until duna is in position, then intercept it and lower into a 50x50 duna orbit with low inclination.
5. dispose of the two nerva engines, which should be just about empty, then, arrange your parachute staging so they come out two at a time at first, then gradually more. an example would be 2, 2, 4, 8 (16 parachutes total). this is so they won't break the craft when deploying. close panels so they won't break off during landing. now wait until you are approaching one of the marinas on duna from the west. thrust retrograde with the engines under the rover just enough to deorbit into the marina. turn off engines once this has been achieved. at 25km, use the remaining fuel to reduce horizontal/vertical velocity to under 100m/s. keep thrusting gently to keep vertical velocity under 200 m/s until you are 2 kilometers above ground level.
6. at 2kms, dispose of the engines via decouplers and launch the first stage of parachutes. at 500m, once the first parachutes have opened, you can start spamming the rest. touchdown should be achieved at around 12m/s. open panels. drive.
of course if you just wanted to get the rover to the moon i wouldn't have bothered with a seperate thruster rocket. if it was a moon mission i would've removed the engines on the rover and used a slightly larger rover launcher to directly land on the moon and act like a crane.
