You don't know how true this has been for me at times. "Let's build a 100+ kerbal space station!" "How do you build in spacer in this?" "I dunno" *45 minutes later, about 30 rockomax engines strapped to large orange fuel tanks and 36 crew pods in a 3x3x4 square configuration is launching straight into orbit by the pure virtue of if there is enough thrust and fuel, we can make it fly.
I've heard of but never seen gameplay of Kerbal Space Program before. I've been getting interested in space stuff from hearing about SpaceX. This game looks pretty cool! Nice video :)
+John Carver by a faulty wiring system that stayed on after a pre flight test was completed 5 to 7 days before the launch which when the cryo tanks were stirred caused the over heated wiring system to put a spark in the oxygen tank causing a major explosion and a devastating blow out in which case the astronauts luckily survived by a thread
I already knew that, but I did find out that the Mün has mountain higher than 600 m. I also found out that a poodle engine does not save you from that.
Funny how this is considered a challenge when it's easy these days to build an Apollo style rocket, and Saturn V replicas are common. It's required even to use an Apollo style lander if you plan on going interplanetary. Plus, the rover isn't too hard to include with the making history expansion. Cool to see KSP expand so much over the years.
the same orbit and in the same place*. easy mistake to make when rendezvousing to match orbits with the target craft while it is 100s of kilometers away,
I record live, and then I add post commentary where I need to speed things up, so there's a lot of edits in there that you can hear because the tone of my voice changes from one line to the next.
This rotation is exactly why I pointed the docking port along the pole, so that the rotation would be along the axis of the port keeping the port in the same location.
love your videos man! i hate watching 'lets play' style videos but i love that you have knowledge on the topic I have learned quite a bit. about to buy this game but I feel like I dont know nearly enough about physics or space travel although its always been an interest lol.keep up the great work!
Get it, you won't regret it. The in-game tutorials are way easy to follow, and the physics of it is rather intuitive. Of course in-depth knowledge like Scott's makes these difficult challenge missions possible, but it's not at all necessary in order to enjoy the game.
Tuomas Kristola For sure. I flew and landed my first plane in KSP today. The centre of mass was a little far back so it created a lot of drag when I tried to pitch up. Nevertheless I managed to land it on the runway without any explosions so I'm rather proud of myself. The physics are pretty intuitive, I agree. And I've learned a lot from watching Scott's videos. I remember the first time I watched him I didn't have a clue what he was talking about. Retrograde this, thrust vector that. I've inevitably come to learn what a lot of these terms mean. Mostly because my Kerbals very lives depended on it. But I learned them none the less. This game is super cool and has some wicked awesome features as of the 1.0 update. I highly recommend it to anybody interested in orbital mechanics, rocketry and the like.
Joefry Kerman face during the firing to begin the kerbin to mun transition looks like he is saying "OMG I cannot believe i am doing a mission with Jebediah Kerman!"
None of those were requirements, but I did all those previously in another video, where I spent more time working on the design. The real goal here was an apollo style lander with with the rover, and because of the scale bringing a rover is messy.
I really appreciate the videos you've posted on all these things. Very entertaining and informative. Not to mention, I do enjoy the accent as it differs from my own American one.
Scott, i got a Challenge for you: "Make a Space plane that lands on Laythe. that can turn into a base. but you can turn it into a plane again and fly back to Kerbin" Like so he can se it! :) (Mods "not" Allowed, but if it is Imposible then use mods) ps. Sorry for my Bad English
You made that look easy Scott but the majority of your viewers are well aware of how difficult everyone of the elements required in this mission was. Nice.
The lunar landing plan I just filed with the space agency lists me, my men, Joefry here but only one of you. First one to talk gets to stay on my lunar lander.
Random thing I discovered the other day Scott, useful with Rovers. If you switch to docking mode before driving it, it's more stable (in staging more its still treating it like a probe and when you turn it's also thinking you mean to rotate, but in docking it behaves much more like a car)
The gravity field of the moon is non-spherical, some orbits are stable (27º, 50º, 76º, and 86º inclinations) others are unstable - a satellite in an 11 degree inclination orbit crashed after 35 days.
+TheBeresford7 by traveling through them quickly, just the same way that dozens of astronauts survived. Also, math for people who want more detail. spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/3Page7.pdf
NASA plotted a course through the thinnest part of the Van Allen Belt for the Apollo missions reducing the amount of exposure to that of a dental x-ray.
The Van Allen belt is a region in which solar radiation is "collected" by the earth. Radiation does not kill you instantly. Radiation kills you based on dosage + time.
Yep the Saturn V 1st stage used 5 F-1 engines fuels by RP-1/LOX - 2nd Stage used 5 J-2 engines burning LH2/LOX and the final stage also used LH2/LOX and a single J-2 engine.
+toreibjo no,it means that they're so small/unimportant that the physics doesn't apply on them in the game,if i'm not mistaken it's all translated to the center of mass of the main object they're attached to.
You do one hell of a job editing. I have a feeling that only people that do extensive audio editing and yourself can really pick up on the edits, unless someone is REALLY trying.
Well it's better than a flag. If you self destructed, it would probably be interpreted as an incredibly sad botched landing in which a brave kerbonaut died
Tip that helped me: Get into an orbit that is smaller (if the target is ahead) or bigger (if the target is behind) than the target, then once you are in that orbit, wait until you are slightly behind the target and then make maneuver nodes to match up your little arrows until you are at least "0.5" meters away from the other vessel.
+Silent Ninja We choose to go to the Moon! ... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things (Climb the higest mountain, fly the Atlantic, develop larger Saturn rockets, play hide 'n seek on the moon), not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win ... -John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962
Amusingly, we had an Apollo-style challenge in the KSP forums a little over a month back that was more intensive still than that. I was the first to get all of the points available for that challenge. Good times.
I am really enjoying your KSP beginning training videos during coronavirus lockdown, Scott! I have always wanted a computer game to experience rocketry and spaceflight. I had one based in Kennedy Space Center decades ago, but I wasn't very good at it, so I gave up. I can't believe I only vaguely knew of the existence of KSP until now. As a retired person, I am on a fixed income, and so have only downloaded the free sample game and , last night, the Kerbal Player's Guide book. I have trouble seeing, even after cataract surgery, so I have trouble viewing the KSP screens. I may try lessening my screen parameters to make the views bigger. Any other suggestions?
The Service Module is a vital component, the upper part of the LEM was discarded in lunar orbit, the film canister and experiments were in the experiment bay on the side of the CSM
Thank you so much Scott, i just got my first Kerbal on the Mun finally, and the main reason was your excellently designed lander and service module and stuff. Although I suppose i should really be thanking NASA :D
I'll be so glad when Kerbal Crew Manifest gets entirely integrated into the vanilla game. Having to EVA every crew member into the conjoining command pod is so silly.
Holy Crap! Without the docking system its completely impossible! It allows you to control the ship only with RCS thrusters and allows you to do translation maneuvers like raising or lower the entire ship without rotating it at all. Totally vital. Its no wonder you havent been able to do it!
When I docked for the first time, and landed on the mun for the first time, I was proud, and docking, I discovered, had very few good tutorials. Scott has his own in fact.
Very nice, but yeah, it has its own problems, the amount of fine tuning available in KSP is insufficient to satisfy everyone's needs for an apollo mission, it doesn't help that the munar landing/launch uses so little fuel that it's hard to justify the docking in orbit. Really I should just break out Orbiter and to the Apollo missions using that if we want realism.
Key rule for orbits: lower isn't slower. If your target is behind you increase your height to slow down, if its in front go lower to catch up. Use rcs when less than 400m.
Hey Scott, I'm subscribed your channel for about a month now and I really enjoy your videos. My question is: Can you do an Apollo style mission with the FASA mod Saturn V?
Sound waves are waves of pressure/compressed air, much like ripples on a ponds surface after a stone is thrown in. The stone displaces water and forces it outwards. Sound is similar with sound sources pushing the air outwards or pulling it inwards. When there is no air to compress or displace there is no sound
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but the Free Return trajectory *does* take care of disposing of the transfer stage if you drop it before entering Munar orbit. One less thing to worry about.
Fun fact the flag on the moon is actually waving because there is no atmosphere to dampen the waving and there was a slight oscillation when they stuck it on the moon so if you were to visit the moon now, it would still be slightly oscillating because the friction in the pole wouldn't be enough to stop it for many years.
Directly from the italian page of Apollo Mission. "The rover was also stowed in the base of the lunar module descent, folded on a pallet. Thanks to a system of springs and pulleys was deployed and made ready for use."
Scott, you could use a Skipper for the third stage. You seem to have had a large enough amount of fuel left to replace the Poodle with the less efficient Skipper, and you have a TMI burn time of around 30 seconds.
It's altering of the centre position of the control surfaces. So if your plane is nose heavy you can hold Alt + S on your key pad and the position the control surfaces will return to will be pitched up more.
I landed on the Mun in the demo the other day. It was pretty amazing. I created no space junk, I returned to Kerbin, and nobody died. Without Scott, it probably would've been a disaster.
It basically sets it so by default, the game applies a tiny, adjustable amount of turning force in one direction. If it's a plane, it's usually so if the plane always pitches up, you can have the trim apply a bit of downward force with the flaps to counteract it. Try holding alt (or right shift on linux) and tapping wasd and x.
I watched this video and then got inspired by his LES system so I made one myself and took that to the mun for some fun and INTENDED to just muck about with it on the mun, before I realised that my lander didn't have enough fuel to return to the command module. I therefore had to resort to the LES and I'm pleased to say that it actually does work. I used external seats as opposed to the ladders for the kerbals though because I find that the seats keep the kerbals more in place. So the LES is definitely worth an investment!
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"Who needs a free return trajectory?"
Apollo 13, Scott. Apollo 13 needs a Free Return Trajectory,
+boba8710 hahahahahah
No Kerbal has ever landed on the Mun. This video was filmed in a studio by Stanley Kerb-rick.
i.imgur.com/looRY5v.gif
Scott Manley
Hahaha, that made my day sir!
This was all a propaganda to damage and bankrupt the Kerbol Union, KSR!
Scott Manley ROFL, thank you for that, I quite literally laughed out loud
It looks like it was filmed on Duna! It's impossible to get to the Mun, but Duna is totally feasible.
Joffrey: "How ya holding up out there Jeb?"
Jebediah: "aeiou"
Joffrey: "Excuse me?"
Jebediah: "John Madden! John Madden!"
+Daniel Koss erbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr
LOL
celbitosasdkaskdaskdaksld BR HUE
BR HUE
Taaaake me out to the baaaaall gaaaaame... john madden!
18:12
"So apparently I'm trying to dock with a rotating target, which is fun".
"No, it's necessary".
Where is T.A.R.S. when you need him?
Just rewatched that movie and was emotionally devestated for an entire week lmao
He calculates everything ahead of time. 90% of us just pull Bill O'Reilly's mentality.
"Fuck it we'll do it live!"
by god thats hilarious
You don't know how true this has been for me at times. "Let's build a 100+ kerbal space station!"
"How do you build in spacer in this?"
"I dunno"
*45 minutes later, about 30 rockomax engines strapped to large orange fuel tanks and 36 crew pods in a 3x3x4 square configuration is launching straight into orbit by the pure virtue of if there is enough thrust and fuel, we can make it fly.
I've heard of but never seen gameplay of Kerbal Space Program before. I've been getting interested in space stuff from hearing about SpaceX. This game looks pretty cool! Nice video :)
I tried this but it all went Apollo 13
*Liam Doyle* And not a single Kerbal was killed that day.
Thomas Holt not yet
What. Are they STILL out on in space? or did you manage to rescue them
so your oxygen tank exploded?
+John Carver by a faulty wiring system that stayed on after a pre flight test was completed 5 to 7 days before the launch which when the cryo tanks were stirred caused the over heated wiring system to put a spark in the oxygen tank causing a major explosion and a devastating blow out in which case the astronauts luckily survived by a thread
I once decided to put myself into a 600 meter flyby of the moon when performing a slingshot. Guess how well that ended.
I guess you found out that close approach attitudes are measured relative to the lowest point on the body?
I already knew that, but I did find out that the Mün has mountain higher than 600 m. I also found out that a poodle engine does not save you from that.
aethermodaddict well after all it is called a 'poodle'
aethermodaddict Ahahahahaahah :D
Horrible.
Did i get it right?
"The only time you have too much fuel is when your on fire" 🔥🚀
roflcopters270 so true
Or when your thrust to weight is under 1
Funny, but true!
HULLOW ITS SCWOTT MANLY HERE
***** its how he speaks
:>
stallingblock2
It's an awesome way to speak! And that's coming from an American!
SCOWTT MANLEY *HEAR
HWHEELS
There should be an Apollo 13 style mission to explode one side of the ship and then to get it back safely!
I was thinking the same thing
Funny how this is considered a challenge when it's easy these days to build an Apollo style rocket, and Saturn V replicas are common. It's required even to use an Apollo style lander if you plan on going interplanetary. Plus, the rover isn't too hard to include with the making history expansion. Cool to see KSP expand so much over the years.
To dock, you have to match velocities, so they'll be in the same orbit.
the same orbit and in the same place*. easy mistake to make when rendezvousing to match orbits with the target craft while it is 100s of kilometers away,
I record live, and then I add post commentary where I need to speed things up, so there's a lot of edits in there that you can hear because the tone of my voice changes from one line to the next.
I like how Scott always does "harder-er" mode for Reddit challenges :D
This rotation is exactly why I pointed the docking port along the pole, so that the rotation would be along the axis of the port keeping the port in the same location.
love your videos man! i hate watching 'lets play' style videos but i love that you have knowledge on the topic I have learned quite a bit. about to buy this game but I feel like I dont know nearly enough about physics or space travel although its always been an interest lol.keep up the great work!
anddyyxx Buy the game. Scott has some great tutorials for the novice rocket pilots that includes building and flying rockets. Check them out.
Get it, you won't regret it. The in-game tutorials are way easy to follow, and the physics of it is rather intuitive. Of course in-depth knowledge like Scott's makes these difficult challenge missions possible, but it's not at all necessary in order to enjoy the game.
Tuomas Kristola For sure. I flew and landed my first plane in KSP today. The centre of mass was a little far back so it created a lot of drag when I tried to pitch up. Nevertheless I managed to land it on the runway without any explosions so I'm rather proud of myself. The physics are pretty intuitive, I agree.
And I've learned a lot from watching Scott's videos. I remember the first time I watched him I didn't have a clue what he was talking about. Retrograde this, thrust vector that. I've inevitably come to learn what a lot of these terms mean. Mostly because my Kerbals very lives depended on it. But I learned them none the less.
This game is super cool and has some wicked awesome features as of the 1.0 update. I highly recommend it to anybody interested in orbital mechanics, rocketry and the like.
damn I can't wait til I have a 'too much fuel' problem in this game lol
You should make tiny cars that act like a space station where you can join them together to make a really big car. Like some sort of driving runway.
ive made a driving runway, it makes it a lot easier to land planes if you can choose where the thing the land on is
So, road going trains then?
'Cause that would be cool. :)
I had never thought to use the node t- to estimate the rotational orientation of Kerbin. What an excellent idea!
If I did this challenge it would be Apollo 13 style
Mine would be the N1.
Mine would be Challenger style, or if I got off the pad, Columbia style.
Paul Smith challnger got off the launch pad. You mean orbit
They planned for that and then never used it.
THIS is the video that got me into Kerbal Space Program!
Paistin Lasta it was his orbital rendezvous and docking video that did it for me.
That's nothing, you should see what i launch on KSP ! The moon is litterally crippelled with c̶r̶a̶s̶h̶e̶d̶ perfectly landed rovers of mine
Legends say the Mun was a perfectly smooth sphere before the Kerbal Space Center was built.
who is this „moon“ you are talking about?
Joefry Kerman face during the firing to begin the kerbin to mun transition looks like he is saying "OMG I cannot believe i am doing a mission with Jebediah Kerman!"
Scott I can say hands down your videos are the best quality for ksp. Keep up the good work.
you forgot to stir the tanks. houston tells you to stir the tanks, you stir the tanks!
but if you stir the tanks then you will have a problem
and you will lose the mun too
Houston, weve had a problem
None of those were requirements, but I did all those previously in another video, where I spent more time working on the design. The real goal here was an apollo style lander with with the rover, and because of the scale bringing a rover is messy.
I didn't know that I went to the moon. Good example of a parrelell universe
I really appreciate the videos you've posted on all these things. Very entertaining and informative. Not to mention, I do enjoy the accent as it differs from my own American one.
Scott, i got a Challenge for you: "Make a Space plane that lands on Laythe. that can turn into a base. but you can turn it into a plane again and fly back to Kerbin" Like so he can se it! :) (Mods "not" Allowed, but if it is Imposible then use mods) ps. Sorry for my Bad English
Saw a video where someone did that exact thing, it was pretty awesome.
it was a hybrid it had jets and rockets. Look for it
+TheRniz I know this comment is 2 years old, but... just out of curiosity, have you learned what a spaceplane is in the mean time?
Rizniz still ignorant...
DKay LMNO Matt lowne has a video on that
11:10 The concept of that mini launch vehicle is absolutely terrifying.
Jebediah is the best
YEA he's a fuckin badass
Jeb is overrated....
Paistin Lasta
Nay sayer!
Burn him!
Iain MacLean Burn him with rocket exhaust!
Ksymek I'm partial to Bob myself.
You made that look easy Scott but the majority of your viewers are well aware of how difficult everyone of the elements required in this mission was.
Nice.
The lunar landing plan I just filed with the space agency lists me, my men, Joefry here but only one of you.
First one to talk gets to stay on my lunar lander.
Random thing I discovered the other day Scott, useful with Rovers. If you switch to docking mode before driving it, it's more stable (in staging more its still treating it like a probe and when you turn it's also thinking you mean to rotate, but in docking it behaves much more like a car)
Do u think u could redoo this challange again in 2017 ? Reconstructiong the apollo mission even better.
Kadmilos Especially with KW Rocketry
Oh darn you caught me, because I was so desperate for the flair ;)
7:36 Small fall for kerbal, big step for the kerbalkind
Should be a kerbal
mesoth mesoth i
The gravity field of the moon is non-spherical, some orbits are stable
(27º, 50º, 76º, and 86º inclinations) others are unstable - a satellite in an 11 degree inclination orbit crashed after 35 days.
Dude.. I havent even got enough fuel get to the moon and you even return...
Great vid as always! I've been having trouble getting the rover,lander and cmd mod all launched at once but your solution worked alot better!
I'd love to see a video explaining how you built this.
In an orbit which would be unstable if it were anything like the real mun.
"Fly safe"
That, or you could stick a really huge thruster to a command pod&launch it whit inf fuel.
My entire KSP career in a nutshell.
Extra Points for the Lunar Escape System! Nicely done as always.
How did the Kerbal survive the Van Allen belts ?
+TheBeresford7 by traveling through them quickly, just the same way that dozens of astronauts survived.
Also, math for people who want more detail.
spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/3Page7.pdf
NASA plotted a course through the thinnest part of the Van Allen Belt for the Apollo missions reducing the amount of exposure to that of a dental x-ray.
because the earth is flat and the illiuminati turned all nasa people and astronauts into lizards
Canyon F loving the comment above, so funny
The Van Allen belt is a region in which solar radiation is "collected" by the earth.
Radiation does not kill you instantly.
Radiation kills you based on dosage + time.
Yep the Saturn V 1st stage used 5 F-1 engines fuels by RP-1/LOX - 2nd Stage used 5 J-2 engines burning LH2/LOX and the final stage also used LH2/LOX and a single J-2 engine.
it explodes because the parts on the rover are physics-less parts
+Perrywinkle Finn probably
+Perrywinkle Finn Like non-Newtonian fluids? :)
+toreibjo no,it means that they're so small/unimportant that the physics doesn't apply on them in the game,if i'm not mistaken it's all translated to the center of mass of the main object they're attached to.
I was just joking, but ok :)
You do one hell of a job editing. I have a feeling that only people that do extensive audio editing and yourself can really pick up on the edits, unless someone is REALLY trying.
Hey scott u passed my first jun landing site unfortantly it was in a crater so my ship is on it's side waiting for a rescue craft.
i meant first mun landing. auto correct.
This is surely the best video I ever seen on youtube!
If you wanted no evidence, why'd you plant a flag and bring rovers without self destruct?
Fireheart318 self destruct results in no evidence?
Well it's better than a flag. If you self destructed, it would probably be interpreted as an incredibly sad botched landing in which a brave kerbonaut died
Tip that helped me: Get into an orbit that is smaller (if the target is ahead) or bigger (if the target is behind) than the target, then once you are in that orbit, wait until you are slightly behind the target and then make maneuver nodes to match up your little arrows until you are at least "0.5" meters away from the other vessel.
Actually the oxidizer in the fuel tank would make the fuel explode.
This is true if
a) They come into contact and they are hypergolic
b) They come into contact and they are heatedd
R/english
Those are some very cool designs. Especially the little rover with the low center of mass. Nice video!
*laughs in 1.9 Making History*
*laughs in kerbalism making history with missing history and principia*
"We are sending astronauts to the mun so they can play hide n seek behind big rocks"
+Silent Ninja We choose to go to the Moon! ... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things (Climb the higest mountain, fly the Atlantic, develop larger Saturn rockets, play hide 'n seek on the moon), not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win ...
-John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962
you should redo this with the 1.0.5 parts
Watching your videos always gets me pumped to play.
i havent even got to the mun in ksp lol
Ian Bicknell I can crash on the Mün
"Trying to dock with a rotating target"
Scott's making Interstellar references before the movie even comes out xD
I feel sorry for these guys... dying only to be resurrected to die yet again in the name of science. meh.
Well, you cant spell "guilty conscience" without "science".
Mission control: ALRIGHTY GUYS, TIME FOR SOME MORE SCIENTIFIC GENOCIDE!!! Jeb: aww man, i hate dying.
Amusingly, we had an Apollo-style challenge in the KSP forums a little over a month back that was more intensive still than that. I was the first to get all of the points available for that challenge. Good times.
get the fasa mod and do this again with the real Apollo 11 craft
I am really enjoying your KSP beginning training videos during coronavirus lockdown, Scott! I have always wanted a computer game to experience rocketry and spaceflight. I had one based in Kennedy Space Center decades ago, but I wasn't very good at it, so I gave up. I can't believe I only vaguely knew of the existence of KSP until now. As a retired person, I am on a fixed income, and so have only downloaded the free sample game and , last night, the Kerbal Player's Guide book. I have trouble seeing, even after cataract surgery, so I have trouble viewing the KSP screens. I may try lessening my screen parameters to make the views bigger. Any other suggestions?
10:03
That's what she said.
The Service Module is a vital component, the upper part of the LEM was discarded in lunar orbit, the film canister and experiments were in the experiment bay on the side of the CSM
Thank you so much Scott, i just got my first Kerbal on the Mun finally, and the main reason was your excellently designed lander and service module and stuff. Although I suppose i should really be thanking NASA :D
This was one of your best videos. Very interesting. Good job!
Watching this in 2020 for nostalgia of the old days of KSP
I'll be so glad when Kerbal Crew Manifest gets entirely integrated into the vanilla game. Having to EVA every crew member into the conjoining command pod is so silly.
Holy Crap! Without the docking system its completely impossible! It allows you to control the ship only with RCS thrusters and allows you to do translation maneuvers like raising or lower the entire ship without rotating it at all. Totally vital. Its no wonder you havent been able to do it!
When I docked for the first time, and landed on the mun for the first time, I was proud, and docking, I discovered, had very few good tutorials. Scott has his own in fact.
Scott you make very professional designs. They're amazing.
Very nice, but yeah, it has its own problems, the amount of fine tuning available in KSP is insufficient to satisfy everyone's needs for an apollo mission, it doesn't help that the munar landing/launch uses so little fuel that it's hard to justify the docking in orbit.
Really I should just break out Orbiter and to the Apollo missions using that if we want realism.
Key rule for orbits: lower isn't slower. If your target is behind you increase your height to slow down, if its in front go lower to catch up. Use rcs when less than 400m.
That is a beautiful lander you've got there scott. I wish I built anything that looked that good.
Would love to see more real life based challenges like this one in your ksp videos, plus the history lesson is a nice bonus.
Hey Scott, I'm subscribed your channel for about a month now and I really enjoy your videos. My question is: Can you do an Apollo style mission with the FASA mod Saturn V?
Bill K the science guy!
Your LES has inspired me to make on for a Duna hopper for a constellation style mission in the canyon.
Sound waves are waves of pressure/compressed air, much like ripples on a ponds surface after a stone is thrown in. The stone displaces water and forces it outwards. Sound is similar with sound sources pushing the air outwards or pulling it inwards. When there is no air to compress or displace there is no sound
Hullo Scott Manley here. Awesome video Scott, watch your videos every day.
The moon's gravitational field is non-spherical, there are mass concentrations that mess with some orbits.
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but the Free Return trajectory *does* take care of disposing of the transfer stage if you drop it before entering Munar orbit. One less thing to worry about.
Fun fact the flag on the moon is actually waving because there is no atmosphere to dampen the waving and there was a slight oscillation when they stuck it on the moon so if you were to visit the moon now, it would still be slightly oscillating because the friction in the pole wouldn't be enough to stop it for many years.
Danny Kong No.
@@johnroby6524 and the earth is flat too? (Sarcasm)
Directly from the italian page of Apollo Mission.
"The rover was also stowed in the base of the lunar module descent, folded on a pallet. Thanks to a system of springs and pulleys was deployed and made ready for use."
I connected it to something other than an orange tank. It's the orange tanks that cause the overheating.
They didn't deorbit them always, Apollo 11 and Apollo 16 LEM's were left in lunar orbit and their orbits eventually decayed.
Amazing. Im really fascinated how good you are at this game!
Scott, you could use a Skipper for the third stage. You seem to have had a large enough amount of fuel left to replace the Poodle with the less efficient Skipper, and you have a TMI burn time of around 30 seconds.
It's altering of the centre position of the control surfaces. So if your plane is nose heavy you can hold Alt + S on your key pad and the position the control surfaces will return to will be pitched up more.
One small step for kerbal...one giant leap for kerbalkind
I landed on the Mun in the demo the other day. It was pretty amazing. I created no space junk, I returned to Kerbin, and nobody died. Without Scott, it probably would've been a disaster.
I will endeavor to improve on this.
Scott - What, hard mode is bring a rover? Child's play. I'm going to bring a rocket powered hovercraft and perform the rendezvous in IVA mode.
That was kool,Im still having problems mastering orbit at moment Im kinda new to Kerbals,brill vid Scott
Where? It's in my Mechjeb 2.0 video.
It basically sets it so by default, the game applies a tiny, adjustable amount of turning force in one direction. If it's a plane, it's usually so if the plane always pitches up, you can have the trim apply a bit of downward force with the flaps to counteract it. Try holding alt (or right shift on linux) and tapping wasd and x.
I watched this video and then got inspired by his LES system so I made one myself and took that to the mun for some fun and INTENDED to just muck about with it on the mun, before I realised that my lander didn't have enough fuel to return to the command module. I therefore had to resort to the LES and I'm pleased to say that it actually does work. I used external seats as opposed to the ladders for the kerbals though because I find that the seats keep the kerbals more in place. So the LES is definitely worth an investment!