KSP: Full PROJECT MERCURY Recreation! Space Race Speedrun
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 7. 05. 2021
- Welcome to a new KSP series: recreating every major program in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union! The twist? We'll be speedrunning it, fulfilling every major achievement of each project in as few launches as possible! This week: Project Mercury!
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This video is intended for audiences 13+ years old.
No craft file provided, as the build is much slower than usual such that you can easily follow-along. I always encourage people to try and build stuff for themselves so that they can "enhance their own skillz" ;) - Hry
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1st
First
or not
Lol I'm first
@@ethanvillaluz9801 Not first, I got here 45 seconds ahead of you
Thinking quickly, Matt constructs a homemade moon rocket using only some string, a squirrel, and a moon rocket.
What is the squirrel for.....
@@okalright3941 It's a reference to "Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a megaphone" - just look it up on CZcams, better than me trying to explain it
@@marekmichalovic8711 my original comment was a joke but you're pretty cool and it sounded better in my head so you arent wooshed
@@okalright3941 the moon rocket
A regular Macgyver mate đ
âSpeed running the space raceâ I guess speed is a relative term
i am speed
@@gonuhi What?
@@gonuhi oh boi idc
Also the commenter is not a member
@@gonuhi probably not
Matt Lowne and Scott manly upload within 45 min of each. Very epic
Thatâs like the matrix!
hello
what
Ha ha. Was literally building building a mercury Atlas. It does have mods though. Keep up the good work Matt
What mods are you using? I use a large mod list because I love seeing what people make.
@@haydenrueps6866 Blue-dog design Bureau is a great mod for recreating American rockets
@@javierbates6031 ayyy
Restock+ has heatshield colors AND a mercury launch escape system (more stuff too)
You covered entire program in 20 minutes? One russian streamer spent 8 hours on recreating just Alan Shepherd's suborbital flight...
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@The Catonaut and i spent 6 years not buying ksp and i still dont have it
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@@JMP256 and i spent 9 years to found out ksp
But he focused on the story of the flight itself and communication with subscribers
Is this the perfect merge of Matt's KSP videos and "This week in history"?
The colab of the century
It's prep work for the anniversary. in fact, Matt, those Indian launches you can't show? How about you do a kerbal artists sketch?
Yes
"Are you guys excited"
Yes, yes I am
Nobody talking about how absolutely AMAZING the Atlas he built looks?
Awesome idea. Looking forward to the series, Matt!
Imagine not being a member.
Couldnât be me
But me poor :(
What a flex đ€
Imagine flexing on kids who can't get the membership
Member gang
@The Catonaut thanks for the correction
Love watching these at work on my break. Perfect timing!
"3 rockets m8, sall u need" I've repaleated that about 20 times now
âIf it fails on the a suborbital mission itâs fineâ âIf it fails on an orbital mission you need THE BLUNDERBIRDS!â
You forgot to keep the thruster pack on for Glenn's re-entry!
The thruster pack didnât actually stay on, though. The light in the capsule was malfunctioning, so they *thought* it was still on, but it had actually detached just fine.
@@mattr7994 I could be mistaken but I think youâre thinking about something else. They purposely kept it on because his heat shield was coming loose
@@mustang5132 I looked it up and it turns out I remembered a slightly mangled version of what happened - you are correct. The faulty light was telling them that the *heat shield* had come loose (although it was actually just fine), so they kept the retro package on in an attempt to hold it in place.
I remembered the problem was actually a bad indicator light and not a real problem, but I was thinking the issue was failure of the retro pack to separate, not of the heat shield to remain where it was supposed to be.
No he was one-upping nasa
This was probably the best Atlas Recreation Ive seen using only stock parts, nice
"our history in space is very interesting, and long" that pretty much exactly describes the canceled NASA Ares rocket đ€Ł
When you have done all the irl space race do the for all mankind timeline!
1 and a half stage, mmmh yes perfect name
Does that exist?
@Merton Wu it wasn't a case of whether it was possible l, it was more that its difficult to do and they didn't really have the knowledge yet.
@@anonymouskerman8318 Yeah, Atlas was developed as a missile in the 40s, if memory serves me correctly then by the time Mercury Atlas launched they already knew you could light engines in flight, but the Atlas vehicle was already built
Very impressive! It's "funny" that a/the continuous burn to orbit was the standard back then (Mercury/Gemini/Apollo) compared to what we do in KSP.
In addition to the # of orbits...John Glennâs flight also did not jetison the retro-pack. They had a sensor indication of the heat shield coming loose and kept the retro pack on to hold it on for reentry.
You also jettisoned the retro-rockets after your second mission. IRL there were some suspected problems with the heatshield so the retro-rocket package was ordered to not be jettisoned in the hopes that it would help hold the heatshield on better
What if the space race was in ksp and not in irl : this is what would happen probably
FINALLY A NEW VIDEO! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A NEW LOWNE VIDEO ALL WEEK! Kinda been having a bad week...
I did upload a KSP video on Wednesday, so you wouldn't have had to wait ALL week ;)
@@MattLowne I must have missed that video, gonna go watch it when I am done with this one!
Every day without a new Lowne video feels like a week, though.
@@woodbyte Same
Hi, Matt! I found your channel a few months ago and have watched almost every video of yours since. Just wanted to say I love how knowledgeable you are about both space and KSP. I also love how you explain so much about what you're doing in-flight and give us so many tips for the "best" way to fly. Can't believe I'm making *that* pathetic essay comment but I just wanted to show you some love and tell you thank you for all your wonderful content!
I'm really excited about this new KSP series. Great idea Matt, loving it!
Three cheers for SN15 :D
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@@spaceypoopnoob9563 2nd cheer :)
@Cosmic Gaming 4th cheer
@@gamersheheryar8770 5 Cheers!
we need MOAR CHEERS lol
Greetings from Alan Shepard's home town of Derry, New Hampshire! Home of the Astros at Pinkerton Academy (nicknamed because of Shepherd, who was a graduate).
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Subtitles: murky red stone rocket
help me i am laughing hard right now
Vostok next? Probably my favourite space program after Lowne Aerospace
The next will be Gemini. My current idea is we do all of America up to the Moon landing, then we rewind and do it all again but in the Soviet Union...possibly ending with another moon landing đ€ đ€ đ€
@@MattLowne That would be cool to see! A bit of spaceflight alternate history is always fun to watch.
I love that you are building historical rockets. Itâs nice to educate everyone on the history of where we got to today.
Keep up the good work!
Iâm so excited for the rest of this series! Great work Matt!
great video!! Love the Mercury missions.
Brilliant idea for a series, looking forward to the rest
I love this idea for a series and I can't wait for more videos.
If I had one super tiny nitpick, it's the retro pack on the Mercury capsule was solid fuel rather than liquid fuel and so they had to time the burn correctly since it was a fixed amount of delta-v and thrust. But otherwise you pretty much nailed everything -- I especially loved the Atlas, maybe the best stock Atlas I've seen -- and that was a great video.
Super impressive thing, but one small detail
on Mercury Atlas, They kept the retrorockets attached entering the atmosphere because they were worried that the heat shield would come off. Good mission none the less though!
Your upload schedule is not nice to my sleeping schedule, BUT I SHALL BE DAMNED IF I MISS A MATT LOWNE UPLOAD!
I routinely do single burn orbits, but I have to throttle the engine waaaaay back when I am getting close to circularization.
Been really enjoying learning about the space missions and playing them in Reentry, seeing this makes me want to do this myself in KSP
12:00 I had never realized how chonky these Mercury-Redstone rockets were. It looks like a sizeable shiny silver sausage slowly soaring skyward.
That's one hell of a series! Love it!!!
Epic Matt! Keep up the great work love your vids!
Cool series idea!
you can see how heavy the last rocket is just by how fast its going like the poor rocket is trying as hard as it can
Great idea, Matt! Fun video
Love this series idea looking forward to more!
,,We don't have a money, but we have a Jebedaiah - who could notice a diffrence, anyway?" XD
Great idea for a series, looking forward to more videos!
My great grandmother was one of the mathematicians that worked on this project! Awesome!
I did a project on John Glen's flight in 3rd grade. I even made a model of him. He's still in my garage.
U matt lowne making a space race video
Best day of my life harlaelooyar.
Wow keep up the great work you really deserve everything!
Fun video, I loved the end where they where all in flight together :D
If they first tested the retro rockets during Alan Shepherd's flight, then why weren't they sure they could light engines in space?
Great video btw.
Great video Matt đ
I think the idea for this series is great. Keep it up!
great idea for a series dude! love it
great video, can't wait for the next part :)
Great series Matt!!!!
Really enjoyed this. Love space history.
Really cool idea, keep it up!
Awesome! Id love to see a series on the space race from you. I had the same idea on my channel too, but I was just doing Apollo and Artemis.
Yay! Such a good new series!
so hyped for this new series đ
Iâm surprised I havenât heard of the Mercury project until now
To make a Soyuz descent module, take a pomegranate pod, disable the decoupler, and put a fairing base below it, and create a fairing that connects half way up the pod. Clip Separatrons with the minimal amount of fuel inside the faint base to slow down for landing. Then put a heat shield below that. On top of the pod put a reaction wheel, clip it into the pod, and add parachutes.
Great work!
Love this new series!
Nice Video! Cool Idea
That's an awesome looking Mercury/ Atlas!
Great idea!!
Love this series!!!
"I am very eccentric here" understatement of the century :PPp
I love the idea of recreating the most important space programs of the Cold War. Looking forward for another videos
Great idea for a video series!
This is an awesome series!
good stuff, would love to see more interior pov shots
Nice!!! Keep that series please!
Amazing series
Exited for more
Best idea!đ
please keep going with this series
It's not widely known, but the Redstone rocket had stability problems as well. The original Redstone rocket was designed to launch a nuclear warhead weighing several tons. The Mercury capsule was much lighter, which moved the center of mass too far down and made it hard to keep stable. So several hundred pounds of rubber and steel ballast was added to the top of the rocked just below the capsule. Earlier rockets had little or no ballast, but the one which launched Alan Shepard had over 600 pounds. Redstone was a stopgap, and was always known to be inefficient.
17:40 NASA spent those years by calculating, receiving money to buy recources to build the rocket and finally, waiting for the moment to start the launch. But, you're cool too because of making your videos and doing cool things that we're so exited to see, like, doing space stations around Duna! Thank you!
!Attention! You will be rickrolled in next one minute
Never gonna give you up!
Never gonna let you down!
Never gonna tell a lie,
And hurt you!
Never gonna make you cry!
Never gonna say goodbye!
Never gonna run around and
Desert you!
I was trying to do this in real solar system and man is it simultaneously the most interesting and difficult thing to pull off. You learn about as much as you learned the first time you learned ksp but now it is to the level of mass fractions and fuel/mass efficiency equations, rather than just "I need more deltaV" and "point engine in this direction to raise orbit". You have to learn actual rocket science and the history behind it, and as someone who love science, history, and video games, it was actually some of the most fun I have had playing a video game.
Matt, this series rocks :)
Love ur vids!
Exactly an hour after video was uploaded!! Nice video
Very excited!
Mat i love your KSP vids
To reach orbit in one burn keep the time to apoapsis close to around 5 to 10 secondes by moving your nose up or down in direction of the flight pass ( not directly from the start but when your apoapsis is around 30 km). you can see your time to apoapsis (and the hight of apoapsis) by canging the information window in the lower left corner by pressing on the purple icon.
love these
Nice on Matt!
I'm down for the historical recreations. It would be cool to see the most famous failures reenacted as well
Cool idea!
That chrome fairing looks great!
8:02 Nice demonstration on how brutal the g-forces were on such a steep flight profile.
Yay!!!! Finally a space race!!!
My favourite thing to do in ksp is to recreate ships canât wait for gemini!
I'm very impressed with how well you recreated all of these. I'd love to see more!
Weren't the retropack rockets supposed to be solid rocket motors, though?
I love this