Flying Mercury-Atlas 6 In Honor Of John Glenn
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- On December 8th 2016 John Glenn died, the first American to orbit the Earth, and the last of the original Mercury 7. I attempted to re-create the Mercury-Atlas Launch vehicle in realistic KSP, flying it around the Earth 3 times while reflecting on John Glenn's life and achievements.
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I re-created Mercury-Atlas 6 in RSS a while ago and having misjudged the re-entry accidentally landed John Glenn in the Bay of Pigs, oops
i wonder what Fidel thought about it lol
Now he's flying jets alongside Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong :,)
virgilio moncada They'll beat him the first few laps around the pearly gates, but once he gets a feel for his new aircraft, I think John will school then both. ;-)
Medic83 them*
Armstrong in his x15 flies just a little bt higher....
@@medic8377 5 years later, this made me smile and chuckle! :)
As a Marine myself Colonal John Glenn was one of my heros when I was still enlisted. Just as an little contribution to him i have some information on his military background. Some you have covered in this video. He retired from the Marine Corps in 1965, after twenty-three years in the military, with over fifteen medals and awards, including the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. In 1998, while still a sitting senator, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs as crew member of the Discovery space shuttle. He was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. In his service he flew 149 combat missions being hit by enemy anti aircraft on 12 different occasions.
Semper Fidelis Sir. "If the army and the Navy ever look on heaven's scenes; they will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines." - Marine Corps Hymn
John Glenn, the true astronaut, a man, a adventurer, a legend
God Speed John, God Speed
Emperor Doge Godspeed John Glenn. On to the next adventure.
good speed, buttens beeping, not good speed, OH SHIT *explosion*
I'm currently reading an alt-history where NASA goes for a space station instead of building the space shuttle, and goes to Mars in the 80's. In it, John Glenn is elected president after running against Ronald Reagan, using the slogan "Do you want a real American hero, or the guy who played one in the movies?"
Tulle Rönnmyr cool
Tulle Rönnmyr looking for a good read; what's the title?
"Seeing further", you can find it on spacebattles.com
Rest In Peace, John Glenn. You made history, and made your nation proud. You will always be remembered.
He was also an Eagle Scout. I'm so honored to be part of a group of men that includes the likes of him. Godspeed, I'll be prepared in your honor
RIP John Glenn. *pulls hat
Has no hat so "pulls finger.." oops.
i don't think that the internet can be serious for anything...
You could have used FASA, has the parts you are looking for.
Couldn't get it to work, engine specs were all wrong.
By far best video i have seen recognizing John Glenn
Scott Manley aww
These aren't the mods you're looking for
Are some of those parts Bluedog Design Bureau? Looks it...
I actually started crying after I heard that he died! 😞
Seriously, 2016, you can stop already. Taking John Glenn is just putting the boot in out of spite at this point.
he will respawn in like 2 hours
michael papadopoulos no just no
If only...
Way to disgrace a memory Michael
dont hate michael for trying to lighten the mood.
he doesnt mean to disgrace, disrespect or mock.
have some decency.
Gabriel Bailey at last, someone gets it.. thanks.
Just heard in French TV news: John Glenn, first American in space... That really pisses me off. Unfortunately, Americans themselves seem to be as much ignorant as French journalists.
God Speed John Glenn. a real hero in my view.
Hi from Russia and +1
Nicely done. I especially liked the change to the pilot.
RIP, Magnet Ass
Your voice is enchantingly hypnotizing, Scott.
Fly safe, John.
Fun fact: They actually didn't switch to the Atlas rocket, they reversed to it. The first test flight of a Mercury capsule was performed with an Atlas rocket, but it exploded (also, they had one of their astronauts fly a jet plane parallelly to the rocket and he flew through the explosion like in an action movie). They then switched to the Redstone, which wasn't capable of putting the Mercury capsule in orbit, but was safer. And just if you want to know, it had also been developed for nuclear warheads and when someone messed up some measurements they actually had to grind down around two inches (in diameter) at the widest part of the capsule to make it fit onto the rocket.
So there's a thing on Atlas called the adapter section (that black 'collar' below the capsule on the Mercury-Atlas before the tankage starts), notice that it's slightly wedge-shaped, it's there for this purpose and it's shape is so to accommodate the Mercury spacecraft's diameter. Also, they had to space the capsule from the LOX tank because of the retro-motor package. Find an internal structure layout of Atlas on google and you'll see why. The thing is literally a giant fuel tank, which is why it's icy and giving off vapor when it's about to launch, as the liquid fuel is loaded/pressurized shortly before; when it's all shiny and beautiful, it's not fueled.
They would have to decrease the diameter of the heat-shield, which is mated to the base of the internal structure, which means changing the geometry of the capsule entirely, so I don't think that the most cost effective method. Convair was told to buckle down sort to speak on quality assurance for the components and systems of the Atlas, so that potential for failure could be decreased specifically for project Mercury (the boosters track-record had to be improved, it was still a relatively new missile), most problems with Atlas were with guidance, something that must be ironed out if they are to achieve orbital flight, guidance is everything. The Redstone was the candidate for the sub-orbital debut flights, the Atlas for the orbital ones (a big power difference obviously). All preliminary testing of the capsule design and escape system was done at wallops island with the Little Joe booster or standalone capsule for LES tests, other boilerplate and fully-furbished unmanned Mercury capsules were tested atop Atlas to integrate the systems.
A very nice and fitting tribute, Thank You.
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he was one of the small steps in the exploration of space and we will forever honour his work
Really nice skybox in that realism overall.
Such a shame about our heros going to new horizons... I hope to live long enough to see the next heros re-land on the Moon or better yet, on Mars.
God speed John Glenn.
Hey scott..offtopic question:
We all know you work for a computer fruit company..in what language do you code in your field of work? And if you are allowed to tell..what field is it? UI? Core elements? Protocolls? Optimization of existing code? Drivers? No need to tell what you do exactly..but wich general field is it?
"He had been enthusiastic about working with everybody, from the doctors to Life magazine reporters. He figured he had made all the right moves to win the first Redstone, provided the decision was made from the top. He just figured wrong. Well, it wasn’t the last time John ran for something without having the votes he needed." Deke Slayton in his book (little friendly dig)
a great tribute to a great man. thank you Scott
I thought that the "fireflies" mystery was closed by Astronaut Scott Carpenter on a later mission when he was able to create the effect by banging on the interior of the capsule, which dislodged ice particles from a atmosphere purge valve on the side of the ship. (evidently waste heat containing water vapor from the astronauts own body was vented to space, the water vapor would freeze and build up on the side of the ship near the valve) the ice particles would catch the light of the rising sun and become brilliantly lighted during certain parts of the orbit?
anyway, I read this some place years ago...
Friendship 7 Godspeed rip John you will be missed by all Americans
Ninety-fucking-five years old. This guy's the coolest man like ever.
Its Sad that all these great human heroes are starting to pass away :( John Glen you will be missed.
I get so sad whenever I hear about great American heroes from the Cold War era dying. John Glenn and Neil Armstrong amongst many others are the true American heroes
I wonder if the reason why he didn't show the landing was beccause he fired the decoupler between the chute and the capsule before deploying the actual parachute (you can see bottom left there is a decoupler before the parachute as next stage)
It is truly sad that all of the Original Seven are gone. It's a good thing that we still have 5 Max Pecks left.
No one is fully dead while one person remembers his name. May John Glenn live forever.
God speed, John Glenn.
John Glenn flies where the Kraken has no reach... ;_;7
John Glenn didnt get to be president because of his lack of experience, yet now we have trump smh
You think of a truly accomplished hero like John Glenn, and that snivelling pasty little fractional excuse for a man, Trump, and you can see how far we've fallen.
A national hero dies and all y'all can do is bring it to politics, gg
RIP ;(
NIce video. John glenn was my favorite astronaut of them all. I know it isn't a relevent question to the video, but which mods did you use?
Nice rememberance Scott. Glenn was quite a guy.
Scott did you get parts of your obituary from the Wall Street journal? Some of the things you said were almost verbatim from it. Not accusing, just curious
No I just looked at wikipedia.
sounds like the wall street journal got their info from wikipedia, what a chance missed to make them sound like nutbars.
Scott Manley hey i love what you did here the memorial flight was touching especially for a true American hero such as him. However you got one fact wrong. He was a marine aviation pilot. I don't know if Wikipedia just put that under as navy aviation but he was a marine aviator not navy
Imagine the Wall Street Journal publishing: "John Glenn was the first American to orbit the planet. He couldn't be the first human to orbit, however, because his parents were martians. (source: wikipedia)"
I thought that the US Marine Corps was a division of the US Navy.
During the Koren War, after initial service flying F9F Panthers, Glenn transferred to the US Air Force and flew the F-86 Sabre.
Fly Safe John Glenn....
replacing Jeb with Glen is a nice touch
Rest in peace.
Hey Scott, you like to talk about the physics accuracy of video games and movies and the likes sometimes, right?
Could you maybe do a video like that on the TV show 'The Expanse'? (It's on Netflix)
As far as I can tell, the physics in that seem to be insanely accurate. Spaceship decks, for example, aren't oriented parallel to the thrust vector but perpendicular to it so that they can walk around while the ship accelerates. They also turn around their ship and thrust in the opposite direction to brake. For some high-G maneuvers they have to sit in special seats and have some sort of gel inserted into their body to protect their organs. I was blown away when I watched it and noticed all the tiny little nods to physics they managed to put in there. Maybe you could also talk about whether it's possible to do what they did with Ceres (It's in the book, I don't know if it's explained in the show):
They carved tunnels under the surface and then accelerated its spin so fast that they experience about 1/3 G outwards, towards the surface.
Fantastically done. A nice monologue in the wrap-up as well. Thanks Scott
Once more into the great beyond.
Godspeed.
I have been on the US Navy bases,, then active on two Bahamian islands, Grand Bahama and Eleuthera. On Grand Bahama, the little building, roughly 10x15', which was used for the medical and physiological debriefings for Ham, Shepherd and Grissom is still standing. No door, so you can walk right in! Eleuthera's base was where Glenn was taken for his debriefing only has its air strip remaining.
Thanks for your memorial launch to Glenn!
RIP John Glenn. As a child of science, I was born on Feb 21 1961, and have always had a fascination with things space related, to realize that the most honorable John Glenn became the 1st to orbit the Earth, basically on my first birthday, really brings home my fascination with all things "space". I remember my parents, feeding my fascination with a "Tasco" 3" refactor telescope, which I almost immediately tore apart, to investigate for myself, the shape of the mirrors, and was never able to put back together... everything I observed resolved into amorphous green blobs. But I eventually, at the ripe old age of 32, indulged my childhood fantasy of things space, and got a proper Celestron 9.25" Reflector, and the heavens were opened to me. I think fondly of Senator Glenn, who on my 1st birthday, so greatly shaped me into the man I am today. Thank you sir, may you rest in peace, knowing that you did more for humanity, than many other notables.
I loved your tribute to John Glenn, Scott. It really did good on covering the story of Friendship 7.
Just got done watching the NASA channel's live play public education video on John Glenn. I loved it. It's about 50 minutes long and running on repeat. If you haven't watched it, I'd recommend watching it after this video.
God Speed, John Glenn, God Speed
I was going to do something like this and you beat me to it. Oh well, I'll still record it anyway.
Do it.
samsonguy10k Nah, that project died already. There isn't available the full Cockpit Voice Recorder audio from launch to splashdown. All that's available is launch to the first orbit. My plan was to use KSP to re-create the entire Mercury 6 Mission in real time. I'll see about doing some other type of tribute.
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@Scott Manley could you revisit a manned EVE landing and return mission (stock)? I feel after the latest changes (EVEs atmosphere etc) there is no functioning lander/return vehicle online anywhere on youtube :D i keep failing the return flight off of EVE and am probably missing something here
how was the retro placed with the ablator? I have no idea why I want to know this so badly.... it might be the "flying dog: gonzo" (beer)
Hey Scott, i got stupid idea, what if black holes works similarly as explosion underwater when you shot AK for example, like in that video of smartereveryday when he shots underwater, and water buble expand then shrinks then expand, and several times until it losts it energy, what if black holes works same way???
Just a small note from an older American: Bobby Kennedy thought that John Glenn would make a good United States Senator - a policy maker. Like anyone who wants to shape public policy, he was forced to become a politician in the process.
Was saddened by the announcement of his death.
I'm too young to have historically lived the adventures of all these space pioneers, but knowing that some of these men still walks our planet is kind of empowering.
Still, time takes its toll, fewer and fewer remains with us. It's our duty to remember them all, to share the respect to all of those, engineers, technicians, scientists, pilots, astronauts, who allowed the earthlings we are to understand and watch by ourselves the place we have in our universe, and how precious life, peace, knowledge and understanding can be.
May John Glenn fly forever in the history of mankind.
Another point about the Atlas' engine arrangement: It allowed all engines to be ignited at launch. In-flight ignition wasn't really a sure thing in early rocketry, which is also the reason for the booster arrangement on the R-7/Soyuz, and the Soviet preference for hot-staging.
This is the closest thing to a SSTO that we've achieved
Hey Scott or just anyone who might know, I find a lot of the stuff about orbital mechanics and rocket science really interesting, but I'm having a hard time finding a good place to learn this stuff without it assuming you already know a lot of the terminology. Any ideas on a good place to start?
Godspeed John Glenn , Godspeed
Actually, I believe the plan was to perform seven orbits, but they decided to alter the mission and return Glenn to Earth 4 orbits early after it was discovered that Friendship 7's heat shield might have come loose.
I'm not even american - and I don't understand why some people only feel honored by the achievements of people from their nations - but I pray that his soul gets a smooth ride to the other side. Whatever, wherever and whenever that might be.
Truly inspiring story. Legendary man.
Ted Williams' wingman! (look him up whippersnappers and Englishmen) Anne Glenn's observation of Williams was new to me, Wikipedia.
Scott, great video! could you please list the mods active in this video, I'm interested in trying them.
This was a really nice tribute. Thanks for doing it.
Once he has said " when I hurled through the space I was thinking that every piece of equipment was coming from the cheapest bidder." He got a kind of humor!
Hello Scott, may i ask which Skybox you used in this Video ? It looks really nice and seems to have a really high Resolution, the ones i found in the past were all in way to low resolutions.
RIP John Glenn. You lived a life most would only dream of, and lived longer than many. You served your country well, Godspeed.
I believe Scott Carpenter, in a subsequent mercury flight, showed that the "fireflies" were ice breaking free from the capsule.
What a beautiful tribute! Could you provide the list of mods that you are using in this simulation? And what are the two cross-like icons that you have in stage 0?
RIP John Glenn
July 18, 1921 - December 8, 2016
Astronaut, Hero, Friend
hi, does somebody know how to get EnvironmentalVisualEnhancements to work?? I can't figure it out.
The Texas tracking station told Glenn to jettison the retrorocket pack once his accelerometer read 1.5g. Thinking that at that point the aerodynamic forces would be enough to hold the head shield to the spacecraft.
I was lucky enough to pay my respects to John Glenn today before the general public.
God speed John, you were an American hero.
Because of the heat shield issue, John Glenn would not have entered the atmosphere safely if it weren't for the intervention of time travelers. (The "fireflies" were actually micro drones sent to hold the shield in place.)
tthank you Scott I grew up on NASA and old replays of missions I breeathed mission control for every flight... this one was historic and amazing for me . a true tribute flight
Rip John Glenn ;_;7 you have served your country well you will be missed. You will go down in history as a great hero.
Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Schirra, Cooper, Slayton -- Scottish names. Be proud!
$20 one of those dislikes is that "we didn't land on the moon" loser Glenn beat up.
That was Buzz...
Seeker and this is why google exists...
Lmao
"Having a magnetic butt can be very useful if you try to sit down in 0g" - Scott Manley, 2016
Scott, thx for this. Sciencey videos are a haven. Thank you JG and those who did great feats of human endeavor with him.
Such a touching tribute Scott! Loved the video.
2016 really doesn't get any easier!
Great Video! Is that Realistic Visual Enhancement you are using that make the stars look so nice? I thought that wasn't released yet?
So the mercury tanks are all still floating around in orbit... I wonder if there will be some space trash de orbiting missions in the future
Since I'm from Ohio, maybe I can be an astronaut too, lol. Nearly all famous astronauts were born and died in my state.
Also what mod are you using for the rocket exhaust effects? Or is that part of realistic KSP?
Scott - I gotta ask - what mod are you running that shows the orbit info so well?
A bit off topic but could someone provide a mod pack for graphic enhancements for clouds, water, etc?
Thank you for your service John Glenn, you are a pioneer in avionics and you will be remembered as an American hero for years to come.
Yes flights to space are so routine now few know the names of recent astronauts. John Glenn will always be remembered.
Awesome tribute to a genuine hero... imagine being strapped into the opposite end of the business end of one of these massive marvels of aerospace engineering.
Spaceflight is still not 'routine.' Not by any stretch of measure. It is still about 1 in 100 chance you'll die, which is quite... unsettling. Back in the 1960s it was almost 1 in 10 chance. So yes, if you define 'heroes' as people who are advancing the cause of humanity by knowingly exposing themselves to great risks, the early astronaut corps were great heroes, and even today's astronauts still are!
pop5678eye It's probably more meaning that an average person has a higher chance to recognize John Glen's name as opposed to another current astronaut.
For chemistry class today we watch John Glenn Launch intro space as the first free man :)
Where did this mission land? Wasn't it in grand turk if so I've been there
Excellent tribute. I was hoping I'd see something from you.
Scott, where did you get that epic skybox from? It has many stars !!
Awesome Video Scott!
He was a Marine, Scott. Never call a Marine a Soldier, especially a Marine like John Glenn.