I think it's a really good visualization of what "tyranny of rocket equation" really means. In order to essentially just double the delta-v of your entire journey you had to construct a rocket that is gazillion times heavier than what it would take to go to the Moon just once.
When the Saturn V looks like a child’s plaything, you know you’re watching a TDChannel video. Edit: That first landing gave me anxiety, also _tactical wiggling is my favourite kind of wiggling._
What KSC? BREAKING NEWS: Apollo² has just launched successfully on its historic mission. Sadly, the entire KSC was destroyed by the launch blast. No survivors are expected to be found.
@@Random_192 - Ok.. think I've figured out what's confusing you. When I wrote "What KSC?", I was making the point that the KSC cannot have been destroyed by a tsunami after the first stage fell into the ocean, because it would have been destroyed when Apollo² launched. All your tsunami would have done, would be to put out any fires that were still burning.
TD: "I'm gonna fly to the moon twice in once launch" Stratzenblitz: "Ha! I went to Duna and back three times in one launch!" TD: ... Strat: "Wait you said Moon not Mun" Okay but in all seriousness wow. Also this is my first visit to the channel and it's an instant sub from me
Heh, thank you. I've been told Stratzenblitz has actually seen this video! I'm glad you enjoyed, and hope you enjoy the (relatively infrequent) rest of the content on the channel.
Jokes aside, if someone calculated the annual (I believe in English it means during one year) US Navy, Army, and Air Force fuel consumption, this rocket here would look like something reasonable in comparsation
This 700 meter tall rocket is by far the most ridiculously large rocket I’ve ever seen in KSP. I’ve never seen anything close to that kind of colossal size
Somewhat true, although at these scales one also has to try to combat the kraken as it ripped this vessel apart many times... The bellyflop was much harder though.
Missed part of the title when I clicked on the video, then I thought: “wait a minute. That’s to big of a rocket for a double Mun launch. I bet there is an ssto that can do it three times”. Then I checked the title once again… damn. Making RSS seem stock map is no small task
Just discovered your channel, have to say, the production value is miles above what a channel your size should have. You deserve a bigger audience, sir!
WHAT. WHAT. Dude I laughed so hard all the way through this. The entire thing is so freaking epic, and absurd. The landing like a Starship really got me. Bravo. And it was also very cool when it ditched the wings.
yup, give this man a price he made something that if it were to explode it'll end the space agency forever but if it wouldnt he was a madman, well guess hes a absolute maniac now
how to propperly spend billions of dollars: a) invest in army b) invest in industry and polution c) invest in nasa so they can build a rocket that can go to the moon twice in a row just cause neil forgot the flag id pick c)
"so, how do we go to the moon and back and to the moon and back? " "How about a 600m tall giga rocket carrying a entire saturn v to the moon and the saturn v then reenters the Atmosphere with gigant wings and some tactical wingling and does a fricking belly flop on the vab? From there it should be self explaining right?" "sounds good lets do it"
So you turned a Saturn V into a spaceplane in order to re-enter the entire rocket from Trans-Earth Injection, then you Falcon 9 the entire thing on top of an elevated building, took off from there and landed on the moon, and all this after creating the Burj Khalifa of rockets to blast the entire Saturn V plus an immense landing stage to the surface of the Moon in the first place? Yep, okay, just checking.
My man went to the moon 2 times, made what I think is the biggest rocket ever, landed the sarturn v like a starship ON THE ROOF OF A BUILDING and reentered like 2 times and is like "ok this is not a big deal" BRUH! IM SUBSCRIBING TO THIS MAN!
@ok ok I think it possible, but mass of construction is very very huge, but you can use nuclear and electrical engine which have much higher specific impulse
There's also the fact that chemical propulsion doesn't work near the surface of Venus - so you also need to deploy some sort of gigantic electric prop or baloon system to take off.
JESUS AGENA CHRIST! I remember thinking about someone doing this in 2019, but never thought it would ever _actually be done_, and using (mostly) the original launch stack for the second launch, no less! Bravo! (Inspired by @Chris Gaming's comment) Whelp, looks like my Argo (mass ~700,000 tons) will never be the largest rocket launched in KSP RSS/RO... but it will fill some other categories. ;)
Heh, thank you! I wasn't sure if it was possible either, but after seeing the ground cam view of Starship bellyflopping, I always wanted to do that with something... bigger! Argo sounds like a pretty mighty LV still! 700,000t outweighs all my previous Saturn V related LVs.
Landing on the moon going back and then doing that again? Easy, you just have to launch to the moon whole Saturn V next you simply land it on the earth and voila! You're ready for the next start!
Omg that is very big You have saturn v but with some monstrosity underneath Nice video and good camera movements Underrated chanell Landed on helicopter place 🤣🤣
Did this man just land an entire Saturn V like a Starship?
I've never seen something this beautiful.
He has to land entire Saturn V upside down
Dude, he landed an entire Saturn V on the VAB helipad!
I think it's a really good visualization of what "tyranny of rocket equation" really means. In order to essentially just double the delta-v of your entire journey you had to construct a rocket that is gazillion times heavier than what it would take to go to the Moon just once.
Yeah it really is - doing it a third time would probably bring the launcher dimensions into the kilometers.
@@TDChannelKSP It would be shaped like a pancake 10km in diameter... with 2km spire at the middle...
@@TDChannelKSP launch the burj khalifa to the moon then make it back
@@TDChannelKSP dew it
@@TDChannelKSP That comment aged like fine wine!
When the Saturn V looks like a child’s plaything, you know you’re watching a TDChannel video.
Edit: That first landing gave me anxiety, also
_tactical wiggling is my favourite kind of wiggling._
Carnasa likes his tactical wiggling ;)
@@Katniss218 kinda how I like mine
@@Web_core1197 ;)
When you can hotstage a Saturn V without burning it to pieces:
Toy story reference?
Breaking news: atmospheric CO2 levels increase tenfold.
"Bruh", says the leader of UN environment programme.
*The first stage crashes back into the ocean**
1 hour later : *BREAKING NEWS, the KSC has been washed away by a tsunami**
What KSC?
BREAKING NEWS: Apollo² has just launched successfully on its historic mission. Sadly, the entire KSC was destroyed by the launch blast. No survivors are expected to be found.
@@Garryck-1 KSC = “Kerbal space center”
@@Random_192 - I'm fully aware of that. What's your point?
@@Random_192 - Ok.. think I've figured out what's confusing you.
When I wrote "What KSC?", I was making the point that the KSC cannot have been destroyed by a tsunami after the first stage fell into the ocean, because it would have been destroyed when Apollo² launched. All your tsunami would have done, would be to put out any fires that were still burning.
@@Garryck-1 ohhhh,ok
TD: "I'm gonna fly to the moon twice in once launch"
Stratzenblitz: "Ha! I went to Duna and back three times in one launch!"
TD: ...
Strat: "Wait you said Moon not Mun"
Okay but in all seriousness wow. Also this is my first visit to the channel and it's an instant sub from me
Heh, thank you. I've been told Stratzenblitz has actually seen this video!
I'm glad you enjoyed, and hope you enjoy the (relatively infrequent) rest of the content on the channel.
“Shutting down the 14 F-1s for landing” Excuse me
Weird
@@CallsignAegis Good on you for replying to the year old comment 💯
This is what it would look like it NASA had the military's budget.
The military should give 99% of their budget to nasa, all they ever use it for are ships, weapons, and bombs.
Jokes aside, if someone calculated the annual (I believe in English it means during one year) US Navy, Army, and Air Force fuel consumption, this rocket here would look like something reasonable in comparsation
@@pancytryna9378 Exactly
@@1000-THR Why doesn't NASA mine asteroids? Maybe we could find some oil?
@@futotesan Its currently not the time to do that (no planned mining missions!).
This really is EPIC! I would ask for an encore but it seems you did that already ;)
Thank you! Fun seeing you around here, your videos are great.
Hello there :P
@@Katniss218 General Kenobi :P
76 Sea Dragon engines, for when you want the Soviet Union to *HEAR* your triumph!
T-minus 3 - 2 - 1
Kerbal Space Center is instantly vaporized in a flash hotter than the surface of the sun. 🤣
Jeb would stand under all 76 of those sea dragon engines and wouldn't give a f
yes
When the sea dragon was so big it had to launch from water and this guy launched a rocket with 76 of its engines from _land_
From on top of a giant pole too
The landing Saturn V is legitimately the most badass thing I have ever seen. 10/10
This does put a smile on Tsiolkovsky's face.
10:10 - Prehistoric Starship returns to home in Florida. Wild life is amazing.
This 700 meter tall rocket is by far the most ridiculously large rocket I’ve ever seen in KSP. I’ve never seen anything close to that kind of colossal size
The songs used make it perfect
Christ this rockets first stage is legit strong enough to create a several km deep crater
Well done! Bravo! 👏 😎 … I can’t even imagine how long it took to figure all that out.
Its not hard you just keep putting engines on it till it works
oh hello vaos, i see you in another unrelated KSP video
Somewhat true, although at these scales one also has to try to combat the kraken as it ripped this vessel apart many times...
The bellyflop was much harder though.
Patrick: I think we might have to make a second trip
Spongebob: I got you covered
The Kerbal solution to “we don’t have enough storage in the rocket for samples”
Just go back to Kerbin to drop stuff off, then go back to the mun
When an entire saturn v is literally just the escape tower!
How can your pc even handle this triumph of kerbal engineering
Small amount of big parts is much more performant than many many parts
Cuz this guy probably has an entire server room just for rss, that or RTX 102400
'how to sublimate the KSC on liftoff'
Missed part of the title when I clicked on the video, then I thought: “wait a minute. That’s to big of a rocket for a double Mun launch. I bet there is an ssto that can do it three times”. Then I checked the title once again… damn.
Making RSS seem stock map is no small task
if you ever build something on the moon, make a jamestown lunar base please
from the series "for all mankind"
The only thing that went through my mind in the first scene was "what.....the.....fuck...."
Amazing job
hello there
You can tell there’s some kind dark sorcery involved when the rocket looks like a giant witch’s hat.
I remember when Neil Diamond, Buzz Lightyear, and What's-His-Name landed on the moon back in 2009 or whatever, watched it all on my thermometer.
Just discovered your channel, have to say, the production value is miles above what a channel your size should have. You deserve a bigger audience, sir!
Thank you!
Excitingly, this video seems to be getting a lot more attention than previous ones, so It's growing a good bit now!
That's a full Saturn V stack fuelled that was send to Moon and back...
The Destroyer would be proud
Yeah, I think so too! Sounds like it'd be right up his alley ;)
You know, I happen to know that guy, and he's actually seen it. They think it's pretty cool.
This is by far the most absurd and insane thing I have ever seen anyone do in this game. And that's saying something. Good job!
Scott Manley running the "Red Route One" through a Mun canyon in a submarine ranks up there too. Of course it would have been better with RO/RSS
Absolutely amazing, I was stuck between awe and laughter the whole time. I can only imagine of painful it was to make this video, well done!!
That's precisely the kind of reaction I hoped to get with this video, glad you enjoyed it!
@@TDChannelKSP just found ya,my goodness your skills are very impressive. May good things come your way.
when you're drunk , and you made something god would be terryfied of.
WHAT. WHAT. Dude I laughed so hard all the way through this. The entire thing is so freaking epic, and absurd. The landing like a Starship really got me. Bravo. And it was also very cool when it ditched the wings.
yup, give this man a price he made something that if it were to explode it'll end the space agency forever but if it wouldnt he was a madman, well guess hes a absolute maniac now
I dare you to make it reusable
Edit: I am going to do this in sfs now, also do apollo cubed
I am going to make it
Form earth to moon to earth to moon to earth to moon to earth
*sfs*
Haven’t heard of that name in a long time
What is sfs?
@@Nugget11578 a mobile space program which is free
It is slowly becoming 2d ksp...
@@1000-THRI remember playing a 2d space game on my tablet like 8 years ago, I wonder if it is the same one
This is beautiful! I saw your craft on Reddit and was SO excited to see the mission!! Thank you for making this!
I laughed way too hard at "76 Sea Dragon engines"! XD
Heh, yep. Needed... a little bit of thrust there!
*Casually returns to Moon because you forgot to plant a flag
how to propperly spend billions of dollars:
a) invest in army
b) invest in industry and polution
c) invest in nasa so they can build a rocket that can go to the moon twice in a row just cause neil forgot the flag
id pick c)
"so, how do we go to the moon and back and to the moon and back? "
"How about a 600m tall giga rocket carrying a entire saturn v to the moon and the saturn v then reenters the Atmosphere with gigant wings and some tactical wingling and does a fricking belly flop on the vab? From there it should be self explaining right?"
"sounds good lets do it"
starts off as a miscarried N1 and turns into a weird spaceplane and then back to a Saturn V with massive fins
The feeling when the Saturn V looks like a launch escape system.
You video quality has increased tremendously 😃 making it more fun to watch this ridiculous stuff😂.
Meamwhile I haven't put anyone above orbit yet😂
Thank you! I always try my best to make every minute entertaining.
I'm sure you'll get there in time!
I originally found this through a meme, but this is really really cool and you've definitely gained a subscriber
He bellyflopped a whole Saturn V, this Dude is a Legend!
The size of those RCS thrusters makes me rethink my entire KSP Enhanced Edition career
I know they are jsut about as big as the Saturn V main engines
“Many Americans will receive souvenirs”
that is both dark and unironically hilarious
Werhner von Kerman: LOR or Direct ascent?
Gene Kerman: YES
The scale of the rocket at 10:40 or so had me very confused when it landed a good 20 seconds before I expected it to
TD knows what he’s doing when one video amassed thousands of views and brought in comments from the major KSP creators.
And I thought my sea dragon heavy was massive
I clicked on this, without reading the title properly, thought "Ok, do it in RSS" then looked at the title again.
So you turned a Saturn V into a spaceplane in order to re-enter the entire rocket from Trans-Earth Injection, then you Falcon 9 the entire thing on top of an elevated building, took off from there and landed on the moon, and all this after creating the Burj Khalifa of rockets to blast the entire Saturn V plus an immense landing stage to the surface of the Moon in the first place?
Yep, okay, just checking.
....Yes sir, just a normal day at the KSC!
@@TDChannelKSP Letting Jeb design the rockets on Mondays may have been a horrible mistake
Huh. Who would have known the Saturn V could do the starship flip maneuver
Epic Saturn 5 reentry dance to metal
Holy sh*t! That rocket roasted half Kerbin 🤣
Really fun and grat video!
Earth, not Kerbin 😉
Thank you.
"Have I gone mad? maybe." This is lightyears past mad, you are on a whole new level of crazy.
Saturn V belly flop is a thing now, if there isn't such a thing irl in my lifetime I'm not dying
even with the modded parts. that is well impressive. Ye never seen anything like that before
The first stage though man, look at that thing
You freaking kidding me this outrageously cool
truly a sight to see, a whole saturn V coming in for reentry like a space shuttle
14:07 hey you landed the lunar lander next to the fifth stage!
Looks like it belongs in Evangelion with absolutely awesome and ridiculous it is.
My man went to the moon 2 times, made what I think is the biggest rocket ever, landed the sarturn v like a starship ON THE ROOF OF A BUILDING and reentered like 2 times and is like "ok this is not a big deal" BRUH! IM SUBSCRIBING TO THIS MAN!
Outstanding video! I was enthralled the whole time!! I loved your camera work also.
Thank you! Glad it was able to capture your attention :)
What's next? Land on Venus twice in one launch?
@ok ok I think it possible, but mass of construction is very very huge, but you can use nuclear and electrical engine which have much higher specific impulse
There's also the fact that chemical propulsion doesn't work near the surface of Venus - so you also need to deploy some sort of gigantic electric prop or baloon system to take off.
Elephants on the Moon by 1970
Thrust of Sea Dragon engines will be 27,36 giganewtons!
Definition of, if it won’t go up, add more boosters. Awesome video man
5:25 real astronauts leaving SpaceX lunar starship like
When science asks "can we...?" And forgets to ask "should we?"
JESUS AGENA CHRIST! I remember thinking about someone doing this in 2019, but never thought it would ever _actually be done_, and using (mostly) the original launch stack for the second launch, no less! Bravo!
(Inspired by @Chris Gaming's comment) Whelp, looks like my Argo (mass ~700,000 tons) will never be the largest rocket launched in KSP RSS/RO... but it will fill some other categories. ;)
Heh, thank you! I wasn't sure if it was possible either, but after seeing the ground cam view of Starship bellyflopping, I always wanted to do that with something... bigger!
Argo sounds like a pretty mighty LV still! 700,000t outweighs all my previous Saturn V related LVs.
Bellyflopping Saturn V doesn't exists, it can't hurt you...
Bellyflopping Saturn V:
This man turned the Saturn V into the N1
Imagine a rocket so big you hav to use F1's as RCS
I remember watching the clip of the bellyflop on reddit, truly insane, you madman
11:00
"sir, you can't park here"
ME AND THE BOY PERFORMING THE *"TACTICAL WIGGLES"*
with this stuff, i think it would be easyer to just bring the moon closer
Lander Separation "assisted by spin stabilization." Man I'm dead 💀 3:42
Landing on the moon going back and then doing that again? Easy, you just have to launch to the moon whole Saturn V next you simply land it on the earth and voila! You're ready for the next start!
@1:05 in -why do I suspect that is what it would look like to launch something like the Statue of Liberty into space?
What an incredible achieve, great job!
the thrust of that rocket can make the entire earth experience a magnitude 10 earth quake
Flat out flew a Saturn 5 to the moon whole. Kudos.
Plot twist: This happened already; just privately
I think that if it did, the entire world would've heard its launch!
@@TDChannelKSP Yeah, probably
Ay, my man!
the greatest thing ive seen in a while xD
The music tells it all
This guy only has 3k subs, he deserves way more
Criminally underrated
Earned a sub! This is ridiculous! :) I will try to create some rocket with the first 3 stages based on your first 3 stages in Sfs
Dayum, you brought a full saturn v to moon and back, landed it then go to the moon again
I swear to god when the rocket launched at the start it could have heated up the world's temperature by 10° Celsius
12/10 background music.
Omg that is very big
You have saturn v but with some monstrosity underneath
Nice video and good camera movements
Underrated chanell
Landed on helicopter place 🤣🤣