@@acidwizzardbastard The whole craft probably costs less than the fuel burned by my smallest SSTOs. (But TBF, said SSTOs could put the whole craft in orbit.)
If you think about it, during the majority of the trip, bill has theoretically infinite legroom. Which is preferred over a flight on a commercial airline.
"So he'll need to push the craft off the side of the cliff here so it rolls into an upright position, before quickly climbing on board and igniting the rocket engine." Only in KSP
Space engineers had some fairly wonky possibilities too, back when planets were a main part. I made my fair share of SSTO hover chairs for shiggles. And many would need a good shove if they ever toppled over.
@@kauske tbh those were pretty easy to make considering fuel and thrust is so generous in game plus aerodynamics are non-existent without mods. If you added aerodynamics and unlocked speed (so you can go faster than 104.4 m/s) then you could do some really incredible things. I discovered that my Inter-Planetary Balliastic Missile (IPBM) would just obliterate on contact with earth like atmospheres when at its cruising speed of like 10km/s.
@@oceanbytez847 I only ever once upped the speed limit to something more reasonable back in the day. I found that physics broke down at about 500m/s and you could phase right through the ground of planets and asteroids with very little damage. I haven't played it in ages though. Keeping the form factor small with a hover-chair wasn't super easy, given that the thrust curve on atmospheric and ion engines left a decent gap where it was hard to keep going. And hydrogen was fairly bulky. I think the worst part of flying to space in vanilla is just the time it takes to travel the distance you need with that horribly slow speed limit. Especially so on bigger planets that might be 10-15km to orbit.
not really, because he wouldn't need any less fuel. he can't use the chute to land on duna, because you can only use chutes while EVA, and he needs to bring the ascent stage down with him. he didn't use any fuel to land on kerbin, so there's no savings there. all it would have done is make his final landing a little more realistic, and be able to aim a little better
There's a challenge for all good KSPers (which rules me out right from the off): launch a piloted washing machine on a Munar flyby, landing it safely on Kerbin in time for tea.
Eon btw you wrong if keebin is any similar to our earth only the outer core is liquid due to immence pressure the melting pionts of the metals rise above the heat their under so trchnicaly he would be right and supirior in knowledge
I was going to say the exact same thing. I was waiting for "and here we are on the launchpad for the 2018 (payload name) to duna for the (agency involved) t minus 2 minutes to launch."
The funny thing is, as ludicrously minimal as your main driving craft is (just a fuel tank, a rocket, and a chair) it is actually just as insubstantial as the Lunar Escape System used by Apollo. The LESS only had a nav ball and clock, and featured two seats for the astronauts to ride back up to orbit if the Lunar Ascent Module failed.
I am really looking forward to the gravity assist tutorial. Please make it for dummies. Like Me. Like show the maneuver node setup and let us ( me ) know why you do whatever you do and what outcomes are desired.
You try and get an encounter for a moon without an atmosphere, but with a sphere of influence, that also makes an orbit in the direction you want to go, then you try and get your orbit as close to the surface as possible without it crashing, and then you perform the rest of your burn to your desired location.
Except it doesn’t and it sounds like a voice recording at a decent fidelity. If it was shitty and scratchy and low bandwidth then sure, it’d sound like radio.
I literally just managed my first return flight from duna, I felt pretty good about it to! I used ion Engines to fully reach orbit and then return and here you are getting into orbit and doing a docking maneuver with EVA! I can’t even fly those things! Gg man!
Im a guy good at building rockets but horrible at using them. I have rockets in career mode that could easily go to most of the planets but my only interplanetary manned journey was a space station to Duna which had a landing module.
"Excellent planning" ... Bill's bubbly effervescence in front of television cameras displays, "I was merely along for the ride. An ... hey, there's no eye in the KSP team." [Media gathering explodes in laughter] In other news ... Kerbal Space Program lands yet another bid for the highly-prized series of manned Moon missions ... undercutting all offers from private competitors ...
Brad, just some food for thought, command pods that arent spacechairs refill the kerbal's EVA pack when entered, giving you theorethically infinite DeltaV.
They refill EVA packs with monoprop they currently have in storage over craft. I had somewhat funny situation where I forgot to install RCS on my station and only noticed it after year of a flight, when I had need to lower orbit to 72km. I had to push it with EVA for about real hour with constant refills and corrections.
While I am sometimes an interplanetary chair naysayer, I do appreciate these videos doing so as an intentionally minimalist thing. There's a time and place for it and this is certainly it.
Do you use the docking port as the root part, and that's why you're able to fly not sideways? Any time I have a command seat as my control everything is rotated 90 degrees or something. No matter what I do I can't get it right. Might try a docking port as a root part though now either way lol. Great job as always good sir! Very impressive!
If you have a docking port on your spacecraft, there's no need to make it the root part - you can just right-click on the docking port and select "control from here" to make your navball directions relative to the docking port.
A Kerbonaut can also survive a fall from space if you give full vertical thrust on an the EVA pack and land in water, but you have to start thrusting like 10-20 seconds before you reach the water.
somehow i had a kerbal stranded in orbit on a chair (because all of the craft had exploded, thanks kracken) and i used her eva pack to deorbit the chair, some how the chair survived reentry, only problem is NO EVA propellant, and i got out of the chair, just waiting for her to die, BUT NO! she survived a 80m crash to the ground, and survived 50GEES wtf
Damn, thats a proper garden shed spaceship! The most impressive for me are your grip settings on the rover at the beginning. Ive reduced my grip so that it drifts but in low-g environments i cant get anywhere near the 30m/s top speed. Can you tell me the friction/traction control settings you used? Friction: 0.8 front, 0.7 Rear, traction: 1.0 all wheels. (My rover settings). And the speed you expect out of it on the Mun and Minmus. Many, many thanks.
How? How! HOW?!?! How do you figure the transfers and approaches? I mean ive done it but its such a pain in the ads that I never leave the Kerbin system.
Dear Bradley, May I ask you to list the mods installed on your KSP , it looks amazing and if you don't mind I would like to use them Thank you, B.regards!
Does RCS still refeul the EVA packs automatically? If so if you could just get a command pod to a stable lko, you could theoretically go anywhere with an Eva pack safe landing.
9:49 Jeb absorbs almost 100 g's and he's still smiling. This leads me to believe that Kerbals are actually one uniform fluid under their skin. Probably with the consistency of lime jello.
“We need to go to mars”
“But I only have $20”
Angel Woodings *slams fist on table* GET IN THE FUCKIN SHOPPING CART, WERE GOING TO MARS.
SAY NO MORE, FAM
its probably more than ten thousands $ still
@@ASSIMO *r/wooosh*
@@Blank_User239 r/no C;
I Love that this craft is the living incarnation of fully unreusablility as in 100% of the craft gets destroyed.
You can even destroy the pilot if you want.
Yeah, but it's cheap as hell, so it may as well not matter.
@@acidwizzardbastard The whole craft probably costs less than the fuel burned by my smallest SSTOs.
(But TBF, said SSTOs could put the whole craft in orbit.)
Brad's got the voice of an airline pilot with twenty years on the job. The slight microphone distortion helps, too.
He sounds like the person in a launch who calls out things like “vehicle is supersonic” or “ max q” or “booster sep”
nominal
yup
twenty five.
T-Minus 12 seconds to launch. Engine start. Booster ignition and liftoff. Falcon has cleared the tower. Go for docking.
If you think about it, during the majority of the trip, bill has theoretically infinite legroom. Which is preferred over a flight on a commercial airline.
But imagine if he wants to scratch his nose
Yeah, that's a problem in more ways than one
Asher Goodman though he stayed in space for more than 1095 kerbal days
@@davidlee3499 That's less then ten minutes!
And his seat is technically both an aisle and a window seat.
i lost it when the fairing deployed and its just poor bill sitting on a gas can , literally wtf, LOL
LOL
He had a chair!
@@haph2087 a chair SITTING ON A INTERPLANETARY TRAVELS WORTH OF EXPLOSIVE LIQUID
Kerbal abuse for sure! haha
@@alexanderwolfgang5829 OMG this comment. I'm laughing out loud.
"So he'll need to push the craft off the side of the cliff here so it rolls into an upright position, before quickly climbing on board and igniting the rocket engine."
Only in KSP
Space engineers had some fairly wonky possibilities too, back when planets were a main part. I made my fair share of SSTO hover chairs for shiggles. And many would need a good shove if they ever toppled over.
@@kauske tbh those were pretty easy to make considering fuel and thrust is so generous in game plus aerodynamics are non-existent without mods.
If you added aerodynamics and unlocked speed (so you can go faster than 104.4 m/s) then you could do some really incredible things. I discovered that my Inter-Planetary Balliastic Missile (IPBM) would just obliterate on contact with earth like atmospheres when at its cruising speed of like 10km/s.
@@oceanbytez847 I only ever once upped the speed limit to something more reasonable back in the day. I found that physics broke down at about 500m/s and you could phase right through the ground of planets and asteroids with very little damage.
I haven't played it in ages though. Keeping the form factor small with a hover-chair wasn't super easy, given that the thrust curve on atmospheric and ion engines left a decent gap where it was hard to keep going. And hydrogen was fairly bulky.
I think the worst part of flying to space in vanilla is just the time it takes to travel the distance you need with that horribly slow speed limit. Especially so on bigger planets that might be 10-15km to orbit.
And I'm just sitting here proud that I even managed to get to duna lol, The ksp community is amazing tbh
F A B
I didn’t know the dank memes guy played KSP!?
over the years my greatest accomplishment is a drone transmitting science from dunas surface
F A B ITS YOU!!!!
fAB?!
F A B had no idea you played ksp
This is absolutely the best example of "If its stupid but it works it aint stupid" ive ever seen, well done.
Welcome to KSP
Interplanetary chairs, achievement unlocked.
they should have achievement in ksp
@@bophi_true There's the KSP Achievements mod for that
“Fly a chair into space without using more that X parts to do so”
you can make these missions EVEN LIGHTER NOW with kerbal parachutes!
hexpress what parts would he not need if he had a parachute?
mypurplelover oh right, he almost never uses parachutes.
Save on fuel for landings
not really, because he wouldn't need any less fuel. he can't use the chute to land on duna, because you can only use chutes while EVA, and he needs to bring the ascent stage down with him. he didn't use any fuel to land on kerbin, so there's no savings there. all it would have done is make his final landing a little more realistic, and be able to aim a little better
@@Crypt1cmyst1c no, you can use chutes in the command chair now.
Keep in mind this mission took 3.5 years, just imagine floating in space from 3.5 years. Hope they remembered to pack enough snacks
"Woah, Cool 3 tons to Duna!"
"9 Meters, wow!"
"Wait, Your going to land that thing!?!"
The God Called Mars This guy has balls harder than Kerbins core
Jim lovell's mother: "If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it."
Jebediah: "Challenge accepted!"
Hairysteed We just need a Trebuchet, Jim Lovell, and a hang glider
There's a challenge for all good KSPers (which rules me out right from the off): launch a piloted washing machine on a Munar flyby, landing it safely on Kerbin in time for tea.
Eon btw you wrong if keebin is any similar to our earth only the outer core is liquid due to immence pressure the melting pionts of the metals rise above the heat their under so trchnicaly he would be right and supirior in knowledge
My first Duna (and back) rocket weighted about 1019 tons (including a rover). 2.9 tons weighs basically nothing compared to that.
You absolute madman.
Yeah, the total weight of this craft is about the same weight as the electrical system on my interplanetary crafts. :D This is pretty impressive.
One mad lad
Orias “a couple million”
K then
Mine is over 4000ton lol, I sent a huge drilling fuel station first before I sent any crew lol.
You could use bradley's craft as an escape pod.
Your voice with this recording set up sounds EXACTLY like the NASA channel
I laughed so hard because it sounds serious like real thing, but no, this is god level.
Or a pilot on the PA system
Perhaps NASA secretly uses KSP to plan future missions.
I came into the comments to say the exact same thing. +1
I was going to say the exact same thing. I was waiting for "and here we are on the launchpad for the 2018 (payload name) to duna for the (agency involved) t minus 2 minutes to launch."
Now make it reusable.
or make it sstd (single stage to duna)
Apollo C H A L L A N G E A C C E P T E D
With ant engines only
And only separations
he isn't Elon Musk😅😅
you have mastered both the frugal and the grandiose
The funny thing is, as ludicrously minimal as your main driving craft is (just a fuel tank, a rocket, and a chair) it is actually just as insubstantial as the Lunar Escape System used by Apollo. The LESS only had a nav ball and clock, and featured two seats for the astronauts to ride back up to orbit if the Lunar Ascent Module failed.
That was only a concept iirc, I don't think it ever flew on Apollo.
How long would you be able to survive after that?
4 hours
Imagine spending 3.5 years in a space suit, that's some major bladder control
Birki gts nah fam he just drank it, that’s how he stayed hydrated
actually today you can pee in them.
@@blakestampley6041 you always could but during 3 whole years?
Un homme qui court. They have pads that get changed out if need be. Like a diaper. This is common knowledge, man.
Nah, he used that for RCS during cruise.
2.998 tons, and you couldn't even spend 2kg on some straps so poor Bill can at least wear the lander as a backpack?
He never suggested the total would be 3.000 kg #dumbpal
or carl
or carl (carl from your vids)
look who it is
What kind of backpacks are you buying that have 2kg straps?
I am really looking forward to the gravity assist tutorial.
Please make it for dummies.
Like Me.
Like show the maneuver node setup and let us ( me ) know why you do whatever you do and what outcomes are desired.
You try and get an encounter for a moon without an atmosphere, but with a sphere of influence, that also makes an orbit in the direction you want to go, then you try and get your orbit as close to the surface as possible without it crashing, and then you perform the rest of your burn to your desired location.
That looks like the most uncomfortable way to fly, ever. I'd rather go in a space coffin.
RyanSpace (Ryanair)
A space coffin? You wouldn’t be able to see the spaceeeeeee
Bill has more leg room than all plane ever made, combined. Think about that.
Got to Duna on a firework lmao
lol your microphone sounds like youre in space. its got like a radio transmission sound to it. i dont recommend getting a better quality mic.
Except it doesn’t and it sounds like a voice recording at a decent fidelity.
If it was shitty and scratchy and low bandwidth then sure, it’d sound like radio.
lol hi.
Bro.. I love KSP and and admire your work.. But this shit isn't a game anymore. This is art
And it's one of a few sandboxes for proving or denial of AI and tech-concepts, in aerospace technologies.
I literally just managed my first return flight from duna, I felt pretty good about it to! I used ion Engines to fully reach orbit and then return and here you are getting into orbit and doing a docking maneuver with EVA! I can’t even fly those things! Gg man!
And here I am having never sent something under 100 tons on a succesful interplanetary mission, and having never returned from duna...
Im a guy good at building rockets but horrible at using them. I have rockets in career mode that could easily go to most of the planets but my only interplanetary manned journey was a space station to Duna which had a landing module.
Same.
If you don't listen carefully, you could mistake him for an airplane captain.
9:46 "Oh he's going way too fast, definitely dead"
9:47 "... He's a God."
7:10 so you're saying Bill is fat?
Well sitting in chairs and eating snacks in zero g for your entire life isn’t conducive to good health...
Naw. His bulbous head sticking out past the craft just isn't very aerodynamic. :P
Dude! This was cool af! You're given me a bunch of ideas to test out tomorrow, and you got a new subscriber!
Congrats! This is stunning as always!
This is seriously impressive. I can't even get into orbit with that little mass, let alone to Duna.
I think my best orbit was on 4 tons.... And he gets to Duna with 3 smh!
"Excellent planning" ... Bill's bubbly effervescence in front of television cameras displays, "I was merely along for the ride. An ... hey, there's no eye in the KSP team." [Media gathering explodes in laughter]
In other news ... Kerbal Space Program lands yet another bid for the highly-prized series of manned Moon missions ... undercutting all offers from private competitors ...
Jesus... I am definitely gonna support this dude with a sub.
Brad, just some food for thought, command pods that arent spacechairs refill the kerbal's EVA pack when entered, giving you theorethically infinite DeltaV.
They refill EVA packs with monoprop they currently have in storage over craft.
I had somewhat funny situation where I forgot to install RCS on my station and only noticed it after year of a flight, when I had need to lower orbit to 72km. I had to push it with EVA for about real hour with constant refills and corrections.
@@calluxdoaron1903 OH I thought it was just a free refill
Your videos are amazing, you deserve alot more views, the dedication you put in here is visible... Thank you very much
This was awesome to watch lol. This is the first video I watch from you. Definitely subscribing to your channel!
I really appreciate it when you do voiceover in your videos
Elon musk really wants to know your location
You need more subs just got to Duna for the first this because of your channel cheers mate
You never disappoint me.
Watching at 3:00 I thought "This is ridiculous but at least he didn't use a Mun assist"... then you use a Mun assist... and then an Ike assist
3/4
OMG that was amazing ! And here I'm trying the more is better routine with massive tanks and engines.
This is truly impressive. Bravo!
I respect the 37 minutes of pushing something up a mountain in ksp.
this is the only youtuber i dont mind having 10 minute vids
While I am sometimes an interplanetary chair naysayer, I do appreciate these videos doing so as an intentionally minimalist thing. There's a time and place for it and this is certainly it.
you sir, have earned another sub! you hand down beat the game!
This is the best thing i've seen all day.
9:49 that truly is the face of a kerbal who has spent 3 and a half years alone in space and just fell from orbit
9:40 "crush space" at 146 mph. Wow. ;)
You be doing this, and I can’t even get a single thing into orbit
That's amazing... lol loved the blooper reel
I like that you used Bill for the minimalist flight
I've always pictured Jeb as a Maximalist
Which video were you referring to @3:20 "not as ridiculous as that tylo gravity assist"?
czcams.com/video/Hzm6-u0YnKU/video.html
I really hope CZcams doesn't think my account is a bot, because I've watched this video so many times. I really love it.
You are insane, and I love it.
Do you use the docking port as the root part, and that's why you're able to fly not sideways? Any time I have a command seat as my control everything is rotated 90 degrees or something. No matter what I do I can't get it right. Might try a docking port as a root part though now either way lol. Great job as always good sir! Very impressive!
If you have a docking port on your spacecraft, there's no need to make it the root part - you can just right-click on the docking port and select "control from here" to make your navball directions relative to the docking port.
^
hey bradley, how much did this mission cost, and can you please put up the craft files for all of the minimal missions?
you are a crazy person, and it is amazing
It's videos like this that reinforce how bad I am at this game... thumbs up.
i dont think people realize how amazing this video is.
Scott manly needs to see this lol
A Kerbonaut can also survive a fall from space if you give full vertical thrust on an the EVA pack and land in water, but you have to start thrusting like 10-20 seconds before you reach the water.
Ryan Slezak he didn't have enough EVA go-juice for that
Ryan Slezak You don't even need to use the eva pack if you orient them so they belly flop into the water
I want to try that
Yup, I’ve been able to successfully deorbit kerbals with the jetpack and land them in one piece with that method
somehow i had a kerbal stranded in orbit on a chair (because all of the craft had exploded, thanks kracken) and i used her eva pack to deorbit the chair, some how the chair survived reentry, only problem is NO EVA propellant, and i got out of the chair, just waiting for her to die, BUT NO! she survived a 80m crash to the ground, and survived 50GEES wtf
Absolutely love highly efficient builds like this... I appreciate them way more that giant "cruisers" that people make :) but thats just me
Thank you!
How heavy are the fairings? Couldn't you have dumped them sooner before the second stage burned out?
not worth it with such an unaerodynamic payload
Breh I sent an actual rocket to duna and didn't even make it back
Damn, thats a proper garden shed spaceship!
The most impressive for me are your grip settings on the rover at the beginning.
Ive reduced my grip so that it drifts but in low-g environments i cant get anywhere near the 30m/s top speed.
Can you tell me the friction/traction control settings you used? Friction: 0.8 front, 0.7 Rear, traction: 1.0 all wheels. (My rover settings).
And the speed you expect out of it on the Mun and Minmus. Many, many thanks.
How did you board the command chair while it was inside the fairing?
When you realize that you just bought kerbal space program but your cpu is a moldy potato
(oh no.)
ಠ_ಠ /
refund ?
When you realize that you just bought Space Engineers but your gpu is a toaster
At least you have a toaster, I have a laptop with no gpu...
Now you’re gonna have to burn out your brain instead making teeny ships
Dividing but ships in 2 or 3 launches world just fine
7:00 reminds me of that scene from the martian when matt damon takes off the front of the spaceship
This is actually Ares VI, the mission after Ares V when the hermes is decommissioned due to that explosion
Yep! "You want to do WHAT?" "We gotta save weight!"
This is the most minimalistic thing I have ever seen
even though it sounds like it has a bit of static. It is awesome because it feels like listening to a spacex stream
Comunity: So whos the lowest price that you can bring us to mars?
Bradley Whistance: Yes.
Ah, i forgot old KSP doesn't have EVA chutes LOL
from my tests, a kerbal can now survive a fall from terminal velocity all by himself
Impressive as hell. Nice video
how do you get this beautifull atmosphere?
What graphic mod do u use? Kerbin and the sun look amazing!
Brad!!! I subbed.. How did you have the two crafts attached? Can you make a vid explaining that craft in detail? Craft file perhaps?
The hell did i just watch,
I loved it.
You sir deserve an award!
Excellent ad placement.
I will say I like the look of the craft, and for the second stage you could probably fit a micro sat in there
10:00 made me laugh so hard!!! Amazing ship btw, effing flawless!
This is incredible.
My man just did an Apollo style mission with two Jerry cans and a dxracer
Most kerbal spaceflight ever?
No, this is the least kerbal Spaceflight
Take it to the next level That genuinely made laugh vety hard.
The kerbal sure are lucky to live in a universe with no radiation.
P.S. Are you sure that isn't a premade Russian craft?
Oh my god Kerbals go through so much crazy crap! Just sitting in open space through the entire thing!
my man was in deep space for 3 years in a lawn chair
How? How! HOW?!?! How do you figure the transfers and approaches? I mean ive done it but its such a pain in the ads that I never leave the Kerbin system.
Wow ! Nice succes. I like the ending :P
Thank you so much for the voiceover! I love not having to go the extra half millimeter and read stuff
This is amazing.
holy shit the look on his face when he survives that kerbal landing
This voice is amazing.
Dear Bradley,
May I ask you to list the mods installed on your KSP , it looks amazing and if you don't mind I would like to use them
Thank you,
B.regards!
Does RCS still refeul the EVA packs automatically? If so if you could just get a command pod to a stable lko, you could theoretically go anywhere with an Eva pack safe landing.
9:49 Jeb absorbs almost 100 g's and he's still smiling. This leads me to believe that Kerbals are actually one uniform fluid under their skin. Probably with the consistency of lime jello.
How did he stick his lander/command module together? i can't seem to create this myself....