after many attempts, a lot of explosions, and a fairly ecstatic jeb, managed to get a proper trajectory to Mun
get there with a quarter tank of fuel, decide i can't land i'll just orbit and head home. somehow used Mun's gravity to catapult me into deep space, try to turn around but didn't have the propulsion to get home. back to the drawing boards.
trying a new heavy propulsion solid based system to bring me into the atmosphere, then liquid engines to send me to the moon. i've tended towards long, slow burn rockets in the past. best success so far was achieving orbit around Kerbalin and managing to break orbit and crash into mountains, sigh