Kevin, your fictionalizations in these wondrous and lush "what might have been" scenarios is staggering. I'm in awe of the way you incorporate found footage with your incredibly creative narratives. And plus also too is your unparalleled mastery of the cold subtleties of the KSP tools you have to work with. It's fukin GENIUS, Man! Your videos look so inviting, so warm and confident. You imbue them with a bright, deeply surreal hue that is fundamentally unique to your eye. Before I somehow stumbled across one of your fantasyreal Mars videos last year, I had NO Idea WTF KSP was. Now I'm turning other people on to it. Excellent, Kevin, Thanx!
Well Kevin this is amazing I thought I knew all there was to know about these programs. I had no idea about the Gemini based program and also I love the focus on the hardware that actually tells us how they created Skylab what an awesome documentary
Your series is fantastic. You are the only person to comment about the MOL unmanned flight. When I was a kid I remembered seeing a Titan III on the pad. I never saw this mentioned before your program. Not only did you mention it but explained it. I had no idea the hatch in the heat shield would work. Keep up the good work.
Wow I love this video, all your videos have wonderful quality and are a great mix of education and entertainment. The AAP would have been genius if it had been fully funded and carried out, but instead we got the shuttle which is a beast of its own. I hope you keep on making these videos of all facets of space history weather hypothetical or actual history. These are really my favorite videos made with KSP at the moment
I've always wondered what happened damage wise, as far as specifics go, and how the solar arrays deployed. This was exactly what I wanted to know - thanks!
Skylab's launch almost ended in disaster half way though assent the fairing came loose and tore the solar arrays off. The MMOD armor was damaged and sections were also torn off one managed to jam the remaining array shut preventing it from being torn off. When Pete Conrad and his crew arrived they had work to do. First they had to fix the docking tunnel so they could get inside, next they had to pressurize the station and turn on environmental control to prevent their rations from spoiling, and third they had to do 4 spacewalks and remove the MMOD panels and free their trapped solar arrays plus deploy a tent over the damaged section and bolt it down. With all this work the crew saved Skylab and it remained in space for 6 years until it came crashing back to earth and was destroyed. Skylab was replaced by MIR which stayed in space longer until 2000 when it was replaced by Space Station ISS.
I cannot believe your series. I remember seeing a titan ii when I was a kid. This series is the only reference I've seen of the unmanned Titan II MOL test. I never realized the hatch in the heat shield in the Gemini B capsule was attempted much less tested.
0:17 "Having won the space race Congress decided it wasn't worth the cost of continuing operations" is not the whole story. You have to put it into the context of that moment in time. In 1972 we were at the height of the Vietnam war and Congress and the White House had been doing everything they could over the previous five years to hide the true cost of fighting the Vietnam war from the US public. And NASA's budget was just too big of a soft target after the first few landings, showing that we had beaten the Soviets and met JFK's challenge. 😔
This is a beautiful history of the US's early space program. I look forward to your future work. As Okanyoto mentioned the only slight error I saw was your showing of the LR-87 engines on the titan III firing at the same time as the solid rocket boosters
2:47 ....What National Aeronautic and Space Association? .....Never heard of it! There IS something called the National Aeronautics and Space ADMINISTRATION though.
It's a shame that the MOL test mission is largely forgotten, since despite the project being cancelled, it did have the important and historic distinction of being the first time a capsule was re-used for a second mission. It is still the only time that a human rated capsule has been re-used, although that should change in the near future once Space X and Boeing get their programs underway.
At 2:38, why is that vaguely Salyut-looking arrangement labeled "Zarya SSSR"? Even were Zarya not an anachronism here, the Soviet Union dissolved seven years befure Zarya was launched.
Do you happen to have an animation of how the Apollo Telescope Mount was rotated into position and deployed? I can't quite work out how the structural framework moved during the rotation.
Just to let you know I was doing research on Skylab B but I could not find any type of description explaining the different service sings by Apollo the soyuz project and the space shuttles servicing so in terms I cannot find a mission description explain the first expedition or second expedition to the station so I think you’re going to have to make up your own launches to the station (jus a note:the Apollo ATM or Apollo telescope mount was planned to be put on a modified lunar module that would be tested in Low earth Orbit and ironically the LM was supposed to service skylab B by doing tests so I won’t see any reason if you don’t include the LM)
Not Association..Administration..National Aeronautics and Space Administration. You should do a video on the MOL station that the USAF were planning with DoD before they cancelled it. Had a Canon.
YESSS! I've been obsessed with Skylab lately, this is perfect! You should really do an "If history had gone differently" video about it, there were a few different plans for Skylab that never like Skylab-Salyut (docking a Salyut station to Skylab B www.wired.com/2012/03/skylab-salyut-space-laboratory-1972/) and pushing Skylab to lunar orbit (www.astronautix.com/s/skylablunarorbitstation.html it's not too in-depth, but it'd still be interesting to see).
Funding is going until 2030. But I can see Russians withdrawing in 2026. I believe with the current moon-Mars goal, 2030 is likely the final extension to the ISS, and it will go down soon after
Kevin Gustafson thanks for taking my suggestion and also keep up the good work I wish you were a bigger channel with more subscribers but you know TH-cam is TH-cam and you have to earn your subscribers for entertainment but anyway I like your channel
Why did Kevin use a computer annulation at 9 minutes to show Skylab taking off? Is that the only rocket launch ever to not have real video of the event?
The shuttle was not involved at all in the Skylab launch. However, because the shuttle missed its 1979 target, that is why we lost Skylab, which we could not re-boost to keep it in orbit.
You don't choose wether to believe or not. It happened. It's not an opinion. Facts don't care about what you believe and if you still think it didn't happen then you are just an ignorant moron
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Kevin, your fictionalizations in these wondrous and lush "what might have been" scenarios is staggering. I'm in awe of the way you incorporate found footage with your incredibly creative narratives. And plus also too is your unparalleled mastery of the cold subtleties of the KSP tools you have to work with. It's fukin GENIUS, Man! Your videos look so inviting, so warm and confident. You imbue them with a bright, deeply surreal hue that is fundamentally unique to your eye. Before I somehow stumbled across one of your fantasyreal Mars videos last year, I had NO Idea WTF KSP was. Now I'm turning other people on to it. Excellent, Kevin, Thanx!
Loved Mir, really looking forward to this series!
Fantastic, Kevin - I love your videos. Skylab was one of my favourite programs.
Glad you're enjoying it!
same
Well Kevin this is amazing I thought I knew all there was to know about these programs. I had no idea about the Gemini based program and also I love the focus on the hardware that actually tells us how they created Skylab what an awesome documentary
Incredible follow-up to the Mir series! Can’t wait to see episode two!.
Wondeful series of videos Kevin. If there was one space station I could visit, it would have been Skylab.
how good would it have been had the space shuttle been completed in time. Skylab would have operated for a lot longer
It was two things: the Shuttle needing two years more of testing, and the huge amount of solar activity in 1979 that brought down Skylab.
Your series is fantastic. You are the only person to comment about the MOL unmanned flight. When I was a kid I remembered seeing a Titan III on the pad. I never saw this mentioned before your program. Not only did you mention it but explained it. I had no idea the hatch in the heat shield would work. Keep up the good work.
I do have a correction. When I saw the Titan III on the pad, it was on TV.
Wow I love this video, all your videos have wonderful quality and are a great mix of education and entertainment. The AAP would have been genius if it had been fully funded and carried out, but instead we got the shuttle which is a beast of its own. I hope you keep on making these videos of all facets of space history weather hypothetical or actual history. These are really my favorite videos made with KSP at the moment
Thanks! Means a lot!
Wow, you even got the pitch at liftoff, I'm impressed.
I've always wondered what happened damage wise, as far as specifics go, and how the solar arrays deployed. This was exactly what I wanted to know - thanks!
Skylab's launch almost ended in disaster half way though assent the fairing came loose and tore the solar arrays off. The MMOD armor was damaged and sections were also torn off one managed to jam the remaining array shut preventing it from being torn off. When Pete Conrad and his crew arrived they had work to do. First they had to fix the docking tunnel so they could get inside, next they had to pressurize the station and turn on environmental control to prevent their rations from spoiling, and third they had to do 4 spacewalks and remove the MMOD panels and free their trapped solar arrays plus deploy a tent over the damaged section and bolt it down. With all this work the crew saved Skylab and it remained in space for 6 years until it came crashing back to earth and was destroyed. Skylab was replaced by MIR which stayed in space longer until 2000 when it was replaced by Space Station ISS.
i love these
I cannot believe your series. I remember seeing a titan ii when I was a kid. This series is the only reference I've seen of the unmanned Titan II MOL test. I never realized the hatch in the heat shield in the Gemini B capsule was attempted much less tested.
0:17 "Having won the space race Congress decided it wasn't worth the cost of continuing operations" is not the whole story. You have to put it into the context of that moment in time. In 1972 we were at the height of the Vietnam war and Congress and the White House had been doing everything they could over the previous five years to hide the true cost of fighting the Vietnam war from the US public. And NASA's budget was just too big of a soft target after the first few landings, showing that we had beaten the Soviets and met JFK's challenge. 😔
Well done animation fantastic footage well edited volume perfect
Great video! And amazing attention to detail with replicating the accidents! Can’t wait for more!
I dont know if it is just me why but why does Skylab look like windmill
This is a beautiful history of the US's early space program. I look forward to your future work. As Okanyoto mentioned the only slight error I saw was your showing of the LR-87 engines on the titan III firing at the same time as the solid rocket boosters
2:47 ....What National Aeronautic and Space Association? .....Never heard of it!
There IS something called the National Aeronautics and Space ADMINISTRATION though.
I got that too.
Like the content and how it was presented. Kudos on the Mir series. Subscribed!
Yes! Thank You! Love all your videos
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Damn! I just watched the whole Mir series in two days and now this comes out? Those are even my two favourite space stations.
I look forward for the next time the algorithm will promote you
Which really isn’t enough for how great the quality of these videos are!
Algorithms rule!
It's a shame that the MOL test mission is largely forgotten, since despite the project being cancelled, it did have the important and historic distinction of being the first time a capsule was re-used for a second mission. It is still the only time that a human rated capsule has been re-used, although that should change in the near future once Space X and Boeing get their programs underway.
That's absolutely true, one reason I wanted to include it!
this aged like find wine
Just subscribed- lovely footage, great narration and love the CGI. I would have lapped this up as a kid. If only my sons could watch this
A lot of videos this times 😄 so cool to see you back
Yay! Skylab ksp series! Very informative of how exactly those micrometeoroid shield and solar array were broken off...
Great vid, I like it. Love KSP.
Given NASA's lax safety standards with the shuttle program, surprised we made it there and back with no accidents/fatalities
Oh, yes! keep them coming!
Wow, this is awesome, glad I found it
Thanks!
Titan IIIC, otherwise..🤘🏻( Space Race kid lol….) Kevin, you nail it!
thanks a lot, will be waiting for P2 , now subbed
Quality production
I think that space station that Von Braun illustrated what the Endurance from Interrstellar
Thank you.. Wherner Von Braun visited NZ once 👍🇳🇿
Nice job !
At 2:38, why is that vaguely Salyut-looking arrangement labeled "Zarya SSSR"? Even were Zarya not an anachronism here, the Soviet Union dissolved seven years befure Zarya was launched.
I’ve read that the SI-C of the Saturn V / Skylab 1 had a slightly higher lift off thrust than the Saturn V/Apollo configurations.
Clever use of KSP
KSP is the best space game ever
NASA in 1972: we're not going to the moon anymore
NASA now: we have plans to build a base on the moon
Dude this is so cool
Thanks!
cant wait for the ISS :)
Skylab A very short series I am supposing
Do you happen to have an animation of how the Apollo Telescope Mount was rotated into position and deployed? I can't quite work out how the structural framework moved during the rotation.
Just to let you know I was doing research on Skylab B but I could not find any type of description explaining the different service sings by Apollo the soyuz project and the space shuttles servicing so in terms I cannot find a mission description explain the first expedition or second expedition to the station so I think you’re going to have to make up your own launches to the station (jus a note:the Apollo ATM or Apollo telescope mount was planned to be put on a modified lunar module that would be tested in Low earth Orbit and ironically the LM was supposed to service skylab B by doing tests so I won’t see any reason if you don’t include the LM)
Not Association..Administration..National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
You should do a video on the MOL station that the USAF were planning with DoD before they cancelled it. Had a Canon.
YESSS! I've been obsessed with Skylab lately, this is perfect! You should really do an "If history had gone differently" video about it, there were a few different plans for Skylab that never like Skylab-Salyut (docking a Salyut station to Skylab B www.wired.com/2012/03/skylab-salyut-space-laboratory-1972/) and pushing Skylab to lunar orbit (www.astronautix.com/s/skylablunarorbitstation.html it's not too in-depth, but it'd still be interesting to see).
He did do international skylab
Great video, but it could have done without the Space X landing. Thanks for making this, though; it's great!
yay ty!
Hey, do you know when approximately the ISS would end?
Funding is going until 2030. But I can see Russians withdrawing in 2026. I believe with the current moon-Mars goal, 2030 is likely the final extension to the ISS, and it will go down soon after
2:48 "National Aeronautical and Space Association". LOL. Huh?!?
Opening Scene: who shot the module leaving the moon? Photographer left on the surface?
io9.gizmodo.com/how-nasa-captured-this-iconic-footage-of-apollo-17-leav-1671650186
George Harvey Don’t be a wiener. It’s obvious that it was an automatic camera mount.
What's the music used in this video?
yes!
And that second S-4b was planning to become Skylab B
Doing that too! ;)
Kevin Gustafson thanks for taking my suggestion and also keep up the good work I wish you were a bigger channel with more subscribers but you know TH-cam is TH-cam and you have to earn your subscribers for entertainment but anyway I like your channel
@@Dev36o Not doing for a million subs, doing it for the love!
Yes
3:35 Nov 1966 5:00 Shedding
Skylab!
do you have a link to the mods you are using for KSP?
Why did Kevin use a computer annulation at 9 minutes to show Skylab taking off? Is that the only rocket launch ever to not have real video of the event?
2:45 Since when did NASA stand for "National Aeronautical and Space Association"?
*LOL*
Who is here because Steve Jobs movie?
The gemini launch never happened. We wouldve heard about it
It wasn't publicized at the time. MOL was a DoD project.
Buddy, there's a lot of shit the U.S. government has launched into space that you have never heard about.
These events was not true they did not have the space shuttle at that time
The shuttle was not involved at all in the Skylab launch. However, because the shuttle missed its 1979 target, that is why we lost Skylab, which we could not re-boost to keep it in orbit.
Don’t believe in Skylab
We can see space stations from the ground, Russian
@@RideAcrossTheRiver no you can’t. And you haven’t
You don't choose wether to believe or not. It happened. It's not an opinion. Facts don't care about what you believe and if you still think it didn't happen then you are just an ignorant moron
@@deoglemnaco7025 I have seen the ISS countless times with my telescope. Don't try your insane fascism on me.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver that’s a strong word, and you don’t understand the meaning of it, sorry.