Go For Launch: Mercury - Recreate NASA's Early Crewed Missions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Go For Launch Mercury is a VR recreation of the Mercury missions intended for VR, it ran a crowdfunding campaign earlier in the year and the 0.3.1 release includes some functioning props and checklists.
www.indiegogo....
Getting great feedback from all I've forwarded this video too, its great to see a mercury enthusiast talking through the experience. Just noticed you mentioned the little spec floating in the distance Scott.... that's your booster. After your retro fire the rocket overtakes your capsule at high speed as it continues on the original trajectory.
One guy is making this!! He used to make amazing stock craft in KSP under the name Mulbin.
MajorJim! Really? The stock Apollo dude? I had him as a friend on the forum, great fellow.
Just noticed you're MajorJim, I feel old all of a sudden. Long time no see, huh?
LOL yup it's me man! And yeah, Munbug Mulbin is making this game. What a guy huh! A fellow Brit too no less. :-)
How have you been?
Sometimes I look longingly at that KSP shortcut and think... if only I had time to play other people's games ;)
Well it isn't going anywhere mate :-) Keep up the excellent work on this. It's already amazing.
Wonder why he isn't into doing mods for Orbiter. Or maybe he is?? Orbiter was made by one guy as well.
Holy crap, a VR game where you get to play the Thing sounds absolutely amazing
+poodypooroo as opposed to the Apollo 11 experience which is just a movie.
The hands in this video look like the Swedish Chef in space
“ Pigs in spaaaaaaaaacccccceeeeeee”
This is something to definitely continue in a future series of videos. Thank you for posting this bit of nostalgia!
I love these historically-focused games and vids. SpaceX and the Apollo program get all the attention, and there's so little on Mercury, Gemini, and the early Soyuz program.
i would love to see a real astronaut on one of this VR games
I thought that this was going to be the start to a new KSP series.
Kevin Vandy me too
We now need VR compatible IVA for KSP!
Alex Siemers there is a mod for it
I'm not surprised. I would like to see that in the base game though.
they should make: "Go for launch: The NASA Program" where it goes through all of NASA's missions.
Tiago Nugent that would be like 10 years of work.. I don’t think anyone would even try to replicate the moon mission or the future mars missions.
ReEntry: an orbital simulator.
No explosive bolts until Gus Grissoms flight. not complaining great video Mr Manley
4:03 - SURVIVAL KNIFE, TO STAB THOSE PESKY ALIENS
lol
SUPREME EMPEROR MITTENS maybe if somehow he landed somewhere away from civilitzation he might need it
for a short while the survival kit even included a gun (in case of bear encounters after landing etc) i heard
Zer0 Bin0pse Ussr survival kits still have a collapsible survivor rifle, and a knife. So I've heard.
Recon yeah, must be prepared for if there has been a zombie outbreak while you were in space
...or cut the seat belts and umbilical in case of emergency GTFO maneuver?
scott these vr videos are very entertaining.
Great video...I have just started but its awesome as allways...keep up the good work mate
Watching this makes me realize just how... _old_ and relatively simple these spacecraft (space cans, basically) are.
The Mercury spacecraft didn't even have an onboard computer, nor did the Mercury Control Center at Cape Canaveral even had a "real time computer complex". All of the computations were done by an IBM computer at Goddard SFC in Maryland and the information sent to Mercury Control, via "Ma Bell" landlines; the data passed up to the spacecraft via the California, Texas, Cape, and Bermuda ground stations.
Hey. I went to the pad where that launched so that's neat :3
P.S. Scott dropped the F-bomb at 8:32 haha sneaky scott
10:51
*tip of capsule is burning*
"Well that's, close enough."
This is actually funny haha. I mean when you are going to do something wrong. Well done!
Missed opportunity: "Recreate NASA's Crude Crewed Missions"
Gopher Launch: Mercury sounds like an amazing game, a pity we only got footage of Go For Launch: Mercury.
Imagine if KSP had IVA like this...
Clem 2: The Clemening VR KSP would be interesting. It might take a lot of modding to get the motion controllers working.
Kennedy space centre = KSC = Kerbal Space Centre
They missed the ball recreating the thrusters. Those were represented as hypergolic, but if I remember right Mercury flights used peroxide monopropellant, didn't they?
10:07 A meeting between Scott Manley and Adam Savage would no doubt be epic! Is there any way we can make that happen?
Looks like a really good start.
if I had this stuff I'd love to show it to my dad
This is the ultimate answer to the question "What would happen if we strap Scott Manley to a stretched V2 in a crammed capsule on a sub orbital trajectory?"
That looks really, really cool
when he says "today I am" hit the right arrow key
Adam Savage for Mercury!
The music playing in the cockpit before launch sounds like it's the theme from HBO's The Pacific. I've been rewatching that series lately, so maybe it's just on my brain.
Hi, the music is a piece called Commander of the Fleet by Swan Productions and is licensed for use in Go For Launch: Mercury
I played this and it is VERY FUN!
Wait, so you're telling me Alan Shepard went into space with a suit full of piss? That's fuckin' gangster.
That's a nice looking "cap-shule"!
Scott has the voice of a god. i bow before him
Someone else has to have pointed this out: they did _not_ jettison the retro package; they asked him to go down with it attached and he had to go through a manual re-entry setup because of that. I think their uncertainty over the heat shield's attachment led them to not communicate with him till he keyed in like a quarter orbit from committing to descent. However, the Gemini missions are the most exciting IMO
You're thinking of Freindship 7 (John Glenn), they made him keep his pack on as they thought his heat sheild had detached. The mission in the video is Freedom 7 (Alan Shepard), the pack jettisoned as normal, however the light didn't come on so Shepard had to manually engage it.
the 1 seat cockpit from ksp is a mercury capsule
I don't think Al's capsule had a jettisonable hatch. That was a modification asked for by the astronauts but not installed in the initial batch of capsules. Gus Grissom's was the first to be fitted - and we all know what happened there.
I wonder what their full intentions are? It would be nice to have fully clickable, 6dof cockpits for the time frame Mercury-Apollo, Gemini included.
Great vid Scott! (my comment just reminded me of the Doc in Back to the Future! "Great Scott"!)😀
Hi Scott... just grab the stick with your hand! Everything is in interactive including the stick.
"Today I am a pair of disembodied hands"
Huh, didn't know I clicked on a JangBricks video...
airplanemaster1 Or Ashens
Totally forgot about Ashens! He still about?
Yet being the key word.
Has anyone else notices that the Kerbal KSC is also the acronym for the Kennedy space center
No way to blow the hatch in the MR3 mission. Carpenter was bolted in on the first flight. he had to crawl up and out the neck of the capsule that 1st flight. The explosive hatch was first used on Grissom's flight and the argument goes on as far as that outcome.
You're right there were no explosive bolts on Freedom 7, but the hatch still opened in the same place, it just used the red lever you can see in the demo to open without and just dropped out rather than firing off. The nosecone tunnel was designed for an emergency backup but was never used. Freedom 7 was piloted by Alan Shepard.
So early, one might call the missions "crude"!
Pretty cool Looking :D
Scott what job do you have? Is it physics or science related?
+Solace2 I write software, big data stuff. There's a lot of math involved so yeah, science.
I think he is currently a software developer
Solace2 he codes for Apple as a day job and a good science based channel in his spare time! Yes, I'm jealous - what a cool life👌🏼
Scott has a degree in astrophysics (I believe) but doesn't work as one :)
Scott Manley I like how you nod your head when talking, it looks funny in-game.... love it.
Intriguing simulation. You were in Freedom 7(Alan Shepard's first flight into space). Does the game have options for Liberty Bell 7(Gus Grissom), Friendship 7(John Glenn), Aurora 7(Scott Carpenter), Sigma 7(Wally Schirra) and Faith 7(Gordon Cooper)?
Maybe we'll see one eventually for Apollo.
Why were the amount of G's so high on launch, compared to the modern day Soyuz launches? Did they just not understand at that time that you have to throttle back at Max Q?
Early engines were unable to throttle down (and not every modern engine can do it too).
And as most of the rocket mass is fuel, there WILL be high g when it's almost empty.
I don't have a pc or VR right now, but I love KSP on Xbox One and iOS games like Space Agency. Do you have any suggestions for Xbox or iOS? I'm going to try FSim Space Shuttle on iOS next which I have seen many people rave about.
Did that mission make a full orbit?
Timgor
No, suborbital.
It flew about 200 miles downrange from the launch pad. It was like a long cannon ball shot.
that UFO could be the escape tower, probably
this is now linked and quoted on the steam store page....
I'm building a mercury home cockpit... this game will help me. :)
U should make it work with the game.
Cardboard box ... check !
Tin foil ..... check !
duct tape
aluminum, playwood, rivets... arduino... * _ *
He woke up in the morning and had a steak & eggs DINNER
Прекрасна комп'ютерна графіка: одне задоволення !!!
Wow...this program is using Waldos (A Heinlein reference to those of you who were born after 1970). Alan Shepard; a Mercury astronaut, the first American in space, an American hero. A man with bigger balls and bladder than most. He truly had the right stuff! Show me an astronaut who doesn't wear a diaper, and I'll show you a person who will never touch the stars.
what was the title of the song when he brought back to the starting menu.
I thought I heard that song before. .
Hi, the music is a piece called Commander of the Fleet by Swan Productions and is licensed for use in Go For Launch: Mercury
2:00 what's up with the black horizon around the launch site?
Is that a wall?!
It's the Ocean. He launched from Cape Canaveral which is on the East Coast of Florida.
MMMHOTCHEEZE did you even notice that hes surrounded by it?
Cnupoc Go look up Kennedy Space Center. Then look at the water surrounding it.
yes i did. i can see that launch complex is on the east coast of the cape
That still doesn't change the fact that in the video in the game, there's an odd low resolution black line on the horizon all around the rocket launch complex, which looks really really weird.
Excuse me for asking if its a wall...
just looks like poor rendering, nothing major. Small issue in an otherwise pretty high quality demo.
Wait I thought Shepherd's flight didn't do a gravity turn?
The suborbital flights performed a single turn to 45 degrees shortly after liftoff to ensure they flew far enough downrange.
Did Scot put that Apollo 13 music in? Bit cheap of them if it's in-game =p
Zanzubaa1 It sounds like the Apollo 13 track, but it's not.
Hi, the Music is a piece called "Commander of the fleet" by Swan productions and is licensed to Go For Launch: Mercury.... music will be optional in full release.
new ksp career!!
I thought the periscope was only in cooper's capsule
Love it...thanks, Scott! What Are you using to control the hands?
Pretty cool. What was the source for AC onboard? DC sure, but AC? This was pre-fuel cells. Were inverters switched on only when necessary to yield AC? And what was the AC used for?
Looks nice ,I think I'll stay flying Poseidon and Moss for a while. However vast budget with the gloves and all,does look nice and if it has accurate support info in the games file.They should collaborate with Roscosmos more , could be a success.Yeah the sharknifes ok.
They should make this multiplayer with other players running ground control.
... What? I really want to say "[space thing] go, [space thing] go, [space thing] go, go for launch" to my buddies, okay?
He also didn't have music playing during the launch 2:43
I searched what PMP stands for on google and now i got video ads for PMP😂
HI-WATT!!!! Pete Townshend would give a thumbs up. But I'm pretty sure it's high-watt that was meant as in electrical kinda stuff.
There are a few odd spellings, but they are all authentic! US cockpits
use a few odd mis-spellings to make them easier to read. Not the "Cabin
Lites" switch!
Did the software creators misspell "Cabin Lights" or did NASA misspell it as "Cabin Lites"?
What's the outro music? Please tell me!
Combine the moddability of Orbiter with the "every switch" clickable VR cockpits and intense detail of DCS and you'd have a real winner.
I am one of your Backer! Well done Scott :) :). Was very prow to see your awesome work. Can you tell me the song you used in your Game at the beginning.
2:02 MIn Video
Hi, the music is a piece called Commander of the Fleet by Swan Productions and is licensed for use in Go For Launch: Mercury
Tactical knife for them damn aliens
Were the astronauts plumbed into the suits?
mercury pilots wore a diaper.
they are still wearing diapers.... xD In reference to a new NASA-Project where they search for a better solution.
who else eagerly waiting the appollo 11 vr experience?
"we're burning up!"
amirite guys?
*appolo 1
Bro.
Too soon
*****
to explore the galaxy.
The peps Apollo 13 would be better but to script something that long would take a while to make
UFO's confirmed. True accuracy ;)
OOPS I meant Shephard!
wasn't there no window on Shepard's capsule?
Freedom 7 didn't have the larger top window that the later capsules had, but it did have 2 round porthole windows. It's a myth that it had no windows at all.
Have you tried Reentry - An Orbital Simulator ?
He did
0:52 well... idubbz
Tolbka Miskin 0:35
You used the early "block 1" version of the Mercury capsule. I always thought those had a somewhat sparse instrument panel. It would have been better and much more impressive if you used the next version of of the Mercury capsule used on the orbital missions. IE Friendship 7. Anytime I look at the panel of a block 1 I just think, ugg. The block 1 panel was a fail.
Why would they need the retro engines? It was not orbital flight, no risk for Alan to be stuck in orbit for several weeks, he would fall right down anyway.
They were included for testing, because they probably wanted to make sure they worked before stranding someone in orbit.
Oh right, I had that question too, I hadn't even considered that several other mercury missions were orbital.
How do you control the hands
Scott, The game says X-Plane 1993
Please more.
Hey Scott do you think you could talk a little bit about the Citadel and Ascension expansions for EVE Online? Thanks.
And Alpha clones of course.
Oh i would like that alot. Totally noob in EvE here :)
Me to:) some say that you only stop being a noob after 3 years of EVE:)
Anyone know what the time zero “switch” do
Where's the splash down
What is your VR setup that includes those hand controllers?
Have you had the opportunity to talk with Adam Savage? Oh, what am I saying? Probably you two have talked alot already and both want to do something toghether but you have a day job and a family and lots of very important stuff to do that unfortunatelly limits the possibility of creating more content for youtube. Which is both good and sad, sad for us that would love to see both of you talking for great lengths about space suits and awesome/weird space contraptions.
Would be good.
The outside view is way too high. Other than that it is pretty cool.
UFO at 8:03 !
more like 8:05 actually
I love how you saw the little dot in the distance afterwards but missed this one I'm talking about
erm.... my sympathies.
Bashir Wada ???
Bashir Wada I hope you're not thinking "oh dear this person actually thinks that's a UFO, little does he know it's actually a glitch, hoho isn't he stupid"
because if so you are hilarious but wrong
i never get motion sickness, but i started to watching this. Looks like im not buying a vr ;(
Hey whats the red thing at the top of the rocket
It's a booster used in the event that something goes wrong at launch. It yanks the capsule off and away from the rocket to save the crew.
Green Alien thank you
Will this come on psvr
Aim for Shephard!
7:23 i thought you hit the "d-ring"
How did you know that I drink coffee and orange juice?