As soon as I heard "This is essentially the final vehicle we are going to be taking to Duna" my eyes just about popped out of my head! To Duna?! With THAT?!?! Only the great Scott Manley could accomplish such an endeavor.
yup absolutely land on two planets on the other side of the solar system and come back with a single tank of fuel, while I can't get in orbit at all. jeez
Don't Read My Profile Picture If the kinematics of rocketry don't come to you intuitively you'll just have to read the basic guides that are quite abundant. If you still have problems do what actual engineers do, use checklists when designing!
I can build a giant 4-6 stage rocket with all the trimmings and BARELY reach minmus, and he builds this and gets to duna?.. This is just will-breaking to watch.. This guy is basically the KSP equivalent to someone in CS:GO who can get headshots literally every shot without hacks.
Minmus missions are fun. The nuclear engines and long, well planned trickle burns with low overall mass are your best friend. Staging external tanks to drop helps a ton too. My personal favorite is keeping 4,6 separately ejectable external tanks on the final stage, and burning all the fuel in them one at a time and immediately ejecting them when empty. You can end up with a fairly efficient, well fueled vehicle that's continually shedding mass and gaining thrust efficiency as it goes.
I don't play the game, but another commentator mentioned that since this video was made in late 2013, it appears to be much easier to construct successful spacecraft, since aerodynamics apparently had not been released yet.
Me: OK finally got a ship into a stable orbit but no fuel to get anywhere, so I'm going to get a drink, watch a random youtube video add more fuel tanks and try again. "So the mission is get to duna and back with just one fuel tank Me: God damn it I suck :(
Scott Manley well I've found that before 1.0 kerbals were able to survive from most deorbiting spaceships by using the packs space bar and backwards thrust until you hit the ground after you pass into the denser atmosphere...they bounce :3
Scott Manley If you fire up and backwards as you hit water, and hit the 'recover vessel' button as soon as it appears, you can actually deorbit/land a kerbal from orbit. Useful for doing a few rescue missions in a row with a big ship that can get within 2.5km of each and then drop em one by one.
I know it's really late, but you probably could've tuned the amount of oxidizer in the tank to just the amount the aerospikes need, as it's effectively dry mass once you're down to the nuclear engines EDIT: apparently in this version the nuclear engines use oxidizer too. huh.
Rory is by far the best companion. I love how he is in his early episodes. He has no idea of what is going on, but what the heck, he goes along and does what he is told without question.
I cannot believe you did so much with only one orange tank! Wow dude I'm impressed. This game is miles beyond my current level of intelligence. I have a hard time with it. It must be the "math" thing you keep talking about lol :D
Nah it's not actually that hard. Ksp is one of those games where the more you play, the more tricks and little techniques you learn. I love it because sometimes thinking outside the box in ksp, is just throttling down, or eliminating cross feeds, etc.
OK, nice call setting up the tank horizontally! A true engineer at heart! On another note, you're lucky as hell on that upside-down landing. Great video.
It's uploaded, along with some other videos, but I'm having a long weekend holiday (10th wedding anniversary) so I need to make sure I spread my publications out to avoid days without new videos.
Omg it would have sucked so MUCH if Rory from Doctor Who waited 2000 years and Amy Pond was like "Sorry I don't love you". He would have been the ultimate Bad Luck Brian. But that didn't happen so fuck yeah.
I have been playing since alpha and have well over 1500 hours and I never knew you could repack parachutes on EVA. I have no idea how many missions I scrubbed from accidentally popping my chutes mid mission. I seem to learn more and more every video from you, for both KSP and real life knowledge.
for me, you still won the challenge because you went to ike and the other planet and still survived the descent to earth AND landed saftly without the kerbel dying
I also feel bad for Rory the most. He waited 2 thousand years for a girl who, in my opinion, wasn't worth it. Unfortunately... I'm just like him. Not the 2 thousand years part though. XD
First time i ve heard a doctor who reference and you mentioned Rouwry!(my spelling is wrong) but 2022 and I find comfort that you honer him as the most bad ass companion. Amy is my second favorite only because if you include one the other must also be mentioned, bringing me to nostalgic tears remembering the masterpieces Doctor Who created. The Centurion is one of my all time favorite arcs. You continue to earn respect on flippant statements you made 9 years ago, thank you for being you!
I've watched and enjoyed your videos for a while now. The moment you mentioned Rory from Doctor Who, I think I fell in love with you. You're awesome. :P
Have you landed on the moon? If yes getting to planets is just like that.... On a bigger scale.... Personally jool is the easiest to get an encounter with. Or install mechjeb....
strikeout1991 The only Kerbals I SEND are on a mission to colonise Laythe, I call it "colonising" instead of landing because they NEVER COME BACK... They stay there in house looking things so I don't feel guilty.
That's a really good idea for the devs or perhaps a modder. Fuel and oxidizer jettison ports that provide a tiny amount of thrust at terrible efficiency but allow you to tweak your amounts of fuel and oxidizer for things like this or short landings where you're not planning on taking off again. Systems like these are installed in a lot of commercial aircraft to dump fuel in the case of overweight landing, engine failure or an in-flight fire.
Scott Manley should be the term for doing things more impressive than what is asked for in the 100% completion goal. example:what he does with these Reddit challenges. excellent work sir!
I just did this now using a similar design to yours... and of course I didn't forget to put those chutes into an action group ;) But well done, I never would've thought of such a design, truly ingenious! :D
I do hope they add more navigation stuff to the game later. Like a little marker to show where KSC is, and topographical maps you could collect and have overlays over the landscape so you can see what you're going to land on.
Parachute repacking bugs are the bane of my existence. Only safe way to do it is to make sure they're more or less all active before you hit the altitude they deploy at.
I'm always thinking "Scott isn't gonna make it back to Kerbin, he'll run out of fuel!" and then Scott will say something like "Right, we're running low on fuel so we're gonna head back to Kerbin.... via Jool, Ike, Eve, Duna and Laythe, maybe we'll be able to pass Minmus on the way back too." and he still gets back with fuel to spare!
If you jump right before firing your jetpack upwards, you get a nice boost. It works great on gravity wells like Duna's when the jetpack can only just barely overcome it.
can't be done, Scott discussed why in a previous video. mostly due to the game not calculating physics for objects more than 2km away from the player's ship. but also that would only be possible if the Mun was in a geostationary orbit around Kerbin.
Scott, I have a challenge for you. Fly to Laythe on SRB's only, land and return to Kerbin. Space craft must have at least one Kerbal inside or on a Chair and be assembled in Orbit. The central rocket with the Kerbal launching with no Liquid Rockets. RCS can be used, but only using the small circular RCS Rockets. Kerbal MUST return to Kerbin on the chair and land. The Construction piece's can use Liquid fuel tanks, but ONLY using either a Skipper or Mainsail. NOTHING ELSE! If that's possible
Manley Mode.
As time approaches infinity, skill approaches Manley.
in soviet russia,
you don't complete challenges
challenges complete YOU
in soviet russia, scott manley flies me
Is that a two sided limit?
Try danny or hazardish or stratenblitz
All my flags are basically just markers of places where i survived a crash landing.
Just call it a kerbal landing :)
"Lithobreaking"
Theonlypayne wow
lifeless pig and then I learned about mechjeb
Theonlypayne so true
We dont want to ditch the areospikes too early
*ditches areospikes*
Lachlan Sutcliffe ikr
Did you guys even watch literally 4 seconds more? Because right after he says that, he says, "...but I think at that point, we've done pretty well."
Pfft.... he spent 2000 years laying in the ground while Rory spent 2000 years being a badass roman centurion.
well. i shouldnt be surprised to see a doctor who reference really.
The Kerbal having a sleep on Duna made me smile.
Floobs o
Everyone needs a nap sometimes
Clearly he missed the opportunity to call it Manly Mode.
As soon as I heard "This is essentially the final vehicle we are going to be taking to Duna" my eyes just about popped out of my head! To Duna?! With THAT?!?! Only the great Scott Manley could accomplish such an endeavor.
Man and my car can only last me for about a hundred miles on one tank. Where could I buy one of these "orange" fuel tanks?
get 30 bucks, buy kerbal space program annd make a rocket with the orange tank
Uraneum I think you need a new car bruh
Or oil change to provide better efficiency
Uraneum Or just use jet engines, they're really efficient in the atmosphere ;)
I think people would get annoyed at you for taking up the whole width of the highway... but you'd get pretty far I imagine.
Difficulty level= Scott Manley!!!!
this is a real thing =P
Wait, really?
For now, I'll publish it later.
Dat twist ending is why I always, *always* use an Action Group for my chutes.
Me too. I think 'brakes' is the right characterisation for that :)
My main problem is trying to figure out how to *not* land on mountain ranges.
Actually just rearrange the stagings in midair you can do it easily without any mods. Just move the stages around and you'll find out how
When the parachutes were still green on Ike, I thought they're going to be trouble on Kerbin.
yup absolutely land on two planets on the other side of the solar system and come back with a single tank of fuel, while I can't get in orbit at all. jeez
Don't Read My Profile Picture If the kinematics of rocketry don't come to you intuitively you'll just have to read the basic guides that are quite abundant. If you still have problems do what actual engineers do, use checklists when designing!
Don't Read My Profile Picture have you gotten to orbit yet?
Same
You’re just not Manley enough yet.
I can build a giant 4-6 stage rocket with all the trimmings and BARELY reach minmus, and he builds this and gets to duna?.. This is just will-breaking to watch.. This guy is basically the KSP equivalent to someone in CS:GO who can get headshots literally every shot without hacks.
Minmus missions are fun. The nuclear engines and long, well planned trickle burns with low overall mass are your best friend. Staging external tanks to drop helps a ton too. My personal favorite is keeping 4,6 separately ejectable external tanks on the final stage, and burning all the fuel in them one at a time and immediately ejecting them when empty. You can end up with a fairly efficient, well fueled vehicle that's continually shedding mass and gaining thrust efficiency as it goes.
I don't play the game, but another commentator mentioned that since this video was made in late 2013, it appears to be much easier to construct successful spacecraft, since aerodynamics apparently had not been released yet.
squishybrick getting to minmus Isnt really that hard. You can pretty much just use a mun lander with a bit of extra fuel.
ChargedCapacitor wdasddsaf
less fuel
its gravity is so weak you only need as much fuel to land and return from minmus as you need to land on the mun
Scott for president of Kerbin.
This is truly Manley Mode!
Easy mode, Hard mode, and Manley mode! Love it :P
He would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling parachutes!
Wouldn't*
Watch the end of the video. You'll see
Tristan van der Kroft congratulations you have proven i was stupid
freakingminecraftian why would you try to correct someone and then get all uptight when someone correct you? you indeed are stupid.
+Killer Apples Rekt
Heh, you ARE allowed ion engines! You're just not allowed xenon tanks to fuel them :)
Me: OK finally got a ship into a stable orbit but no fuel to get anywhere, so I'm going to get a drink, watch a random youtube video add more fuel tanks and try again.
"So the mission is get to duna and back with just one fuel tank
Me: God damn it I suck :(
I love this comment and I wish it got the attention it deserves lol
@buffalo wt
Me: *is going to Mun*
Also me: better have 8000m/s delta v just in case
Nukelear engines are great I recently did my first "landing" (I crashed) on duna and got there with Nukelear engines.
so i beat this Challenge i think dose it count if i landed back on earth with the kerbals jetpack?
hahahaha if so well played to land from orbit on jetpacks =S ?
Did he survive?
Scott Manley Survival is overrated ;)
Scott Manley well I've found that before 1.0 kerbals were able to survive from most deorbiting spaceships by using the packs space bar and backwards thrust until you hit the ground after you pass into the denser atmosphere...they bounce :3
Scott Manley If you fire up and backwards as you hit water, and hit the 'recover vessel' button as soon as it appears, you can actually deorbit/land a kerbal from orbit.
Useful for doing a few rescue missions in a row with a big ship that can get within 2.5km of each and then drop em one by one.
Scott Manley: "Look at all these awesome things i am doing in KSP!"
Me: "I managed to orbit Minmus..."
And then there is me..."Look! I managed to kill yet another Kerbel !"
And then there's Danny... "Oh look, I managed to break the game for the 1,000th time!" Never gets old.
Chris i only made it to the Munn l mun
i mean mun
My greatest achievement is accidentally escaping kerbin with an unmanned rocker, then running out of battery and losing contact
Hardererest mode.
take a manned spacecraft to Duna, land, take off, land on Ike and then go back home...
Dude... is there anything Scott can't do?
...with one fuel tank
Has he destroyed kerbin or the universe? The KSP player That has the name Danny followed by many numbers has done it.
The only thing he can't do is fail at something
Yep, I've used that trick in the past, but truthfully IU was pretty tired and was surprised at how close I ended up.
bruh this has 3 likes and im the only comment
'Any landing you can walk away from is a good one!'
Mission Accomplished
I love how happy you are with yourself, Scott - "I'M doing harderERest mode..." I can imagine the grin on your face as you say that.
Scott Manley: Am I allowed to play Kerbal Space Program? Nerdcubed says I must first go through you before I can even touch the game.
Scott, your skill and expertise in KSP never ceases to astound me. keep up the the great work. love your vids.
DO NOT TAUT THE MAGIC BOULDER!
I know it's really late, but you probably could've tuned the amount of oxidizer in the tank to just the amount the aerospikes need, as it's effectively dry mass once you're down to the nuclear engines
EDIT: apparently in this version the nuclear engines use oxidizer too. huh.
That would be a good place to put a "are you a wizard" meme - what you did there is very impressive.
I forgot all about this video. Probably one of the most epic KSP moments ever!
I didn't think I could love you more, then you started talking about Doctor Who.
Me: haven't landed on mun yet
Scott: So I'm gonna land on a few different bodies with this one tank of fuel
Scott, you should see if you can do this in 1.2, you'll need a heat shield and antenna! Maybe try gravity assists?
Augustus yes please
Rory is by far the best companion. I love how he is in his early episodes. He has no idea of what is going on, but what the heck, he goes along and does what he is told without question.
I cannot believe you did so much with only one orange tank! Wow dude I'm impressed. This game is miles beyond my current level of intelligence. I have a hard time with it. It must be the "math" thing you keep talking about lol :D
Nah it's not actually that hard. Ksp is one of those games where the more you play, the more tricks and little techniques you learn. I love it because sometimes thinking outside the box in ksp, is just throttling down, or eliminating cross feeds, etc.
I mentioned it in my Deep Space Network video, along with many other things worth talking about.
at 15:44 the song is amazing. I want that on loop for like ten hours.
OK, nice call setting up the tank horizontally! A true engineer at heart! On another note, you're lucky as hell on that upside-down landing. Great video.
Plant a flag at the space center. thats how i do my points :D
It's uploaded, along with some other videos, but I'm having a long weekend holiday (10th wedding anniversary) so I need to make sure I spread my publications out to avoid days without new videos.
Omg it would have sucked so MUCH if Rory from Doctor Who waited 2000 years and Amy Pond was like "Sorry I don't love you". He would have been the ultimate Bad Luck Brian. But that didn't happen so fuck yeah.
Koalten J jeez that was 2 years ago damn
SuperNinja187 jeez that was from 4 months ago
Koalten J shut up
mc monobrow fuck you
NiceWhenEarned RudeMostlyElse haha no
I have been playing since alpha and have well over 1500 hours and I never knew you could repack parachutes on EVA. I have no idea how many missions I scrubbed from accidentally popping my chutes mid mission. I seem to learn more and more every video from you, for both KSP and real life knowledge.
You are officially badass
Scott Manley
landing on Duna with a malfunctioning firecracker and a water-balloon, because you can't
4:57
Doing my best to live up to the name!
Perfect Video. Leg dance, space exploration, Scott singing, and explosions at the end. what more can you ask for?
:O my hometown University's motto is "powered by orange" :O! (Oregon State University)...CONSPIRACIES!!! xD lel
***** Oh cool! Well, I lived in Corvallis since I was 1, but I moved to Miami on Christmas Eve last year :(
***** space
that moment when somebody deletes their comments and you have no clue what the hell the conversation is about.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who spastically looks for Kerbin when I come in for reentry.
the name of the ship was sstd, that means single stage to duna
Actually, it isn't. He ejected jet and aerospike engines in upper atmosphere.
More like STTD
Single Tank to Duna
@@skarmoryfly ah yes, my favorite spacecraft, the std
Wow that was very impressive Scott. Never really thought you could make it to duna, ike then return to kerbin all with one tank.
"The Kerbin National Anthem." Scott, put it on iTunes.
for me, you still won the challenge because you went to ike and the other planet and still survived the descent to earth AND landed saftly without the kerbel dying
I also feel bad for Rory the most. He waited 2 thousand years for a girl who, in my opinion, wasn't worth it. Unfortunately... I'm just like him. Not the 2 thousand years part though. XD
TheBaconDeity jeez that was 3 years ago
First time i ve heard a doctor who reference and you mentioned Rouwry!(my spelling is wrong) but 2022 and I find comfort that you honer him as the most bad ass companion. Amy is my second favorite only because if you include one the other must also be mentioned, bringing me to nostalgic tears remembering the masterpieces Doctor Who created. The Centurion is one of my all time favorite arcs. You continue to earn respect on flippant statements you made 9 years ago, thank you for being you!
I have been playing this way to much, i keep moving my mouse in video to his resource tab to see how he is doing ....
This may be one of your best videos, ev4r. The song! EVERY VIDEO NEEDS A SONG.
I've watched and enjoyed your videos for a while now. The moment you mentioned Rory from Doctor Who, I think I fell in love with you. You're awesome. :P
I feel so old watching this again 8 years later
I think for the staging you should have had the chutes above the rockets.
Man, you totally just crushed the challenge there xD. One tank of fuel, Kerbin->Duna->Ike->Kerbin.
And i dont get it to fire a rocket to the moon and back. Now i feel bad
I have no words to say how cool this video! Thx!)) best of watched ksp videos ever.
you can get to duna, and its moon and i cant even get to kerbins moon
Try using just one tank of fuel, maybe it helps. :)
ill try it next time and see :)
I highly approve of the commentary in the video.
Can you get Neil DeGrasse Tyson to play this?
He wouldn't have any problems with fuel, aerodynamics, etc. with the ship of the imagination
I mean he should play the game to see how is it!
He should build the ship of the imagination in KSP lol
I really love watch you're reddit challenges :D
My ears died while listening to your song. ;p
Yes, great videos but please no more of that.
You're a great singer, Scott!
*Le sigh* I remember when nuclear engines were practical.
Ezis9 Why arent they now?
Truly enjoyed the impromptu song. It was utterly silly and random, made me smile.
I wonder if ike fights for his friends.
Is that a reference from zelda?
FrenchFry Salty You better be joking.
I was. It's obviously from Final Fantasy.
FrenchFry Salty Sure.
Ok I'll be serious. It's from Fire Emblem. I was just messin' with ya.
Scott, he actually only guarded for 1 thousands years, i think, but still, awesome as ever
No it was 2000 because it was the year 7 when he started waiting.
tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Rory_Williams
Really? I remembered hearing it say 1000
WHY DO YOU SHAME ME SO MUCH SCOTT?! Seriously....i haven't even landed on another planet yet.
Have you landed on the moon? If yes getting to planets is just like that.... On a bigger scale.... Personally jool is the easiest to get an encounter with. Or install mechjeb....
Holiday Miner
I feel safe sending probes to other planets, but with manned missions I tend to fail a lot.
strikeout1991 The only Kerbals I SEND are on a mission to colonise Laythe, I call it "colonising" instead of landing because they NEVER COME BACK... They stay there in house looking things so I don't feel guilty.
"Please stop me from doing things like that." I refuse. You actually have a decent singing voice!
Manley mode.
I don't know why but I absolutely LOVE this for some reason
stick to the science and games 16:00 lol
Scott, your skill at this game knows no bounds.
Recording software crashing sounds a lot like cheating ^_-
Scott Manley Terrorizing Kerbals for half a Decade. Another well-done mission.
I cannot get enough Scott Manley KSP videos. The best narrator for the best game!
the return slingshot in duna really saved your travel time and fuel, otherwise that nearly empty tank wouldnt get your ship to kerbin, very nice
That's a really good idea for the devs or perhaps a modder. Fuel and oxidizer jettison ports that provide a tiny amount of thrust at terrible efficiency but allow you to tweak your amounts of fuel and oxidizer for things like this or short landings where you're not planning on taking off again. Systems like these are installed in a lot of commercial aircraft to dump fuel in the case of overweight landing, engine failure or an in-flight fire.
Great vid indeed! To overcome the parachute staging going nuts when re-arranging it in mid-flight just add and empty stage right below them.
Excellent piloting as usual Scott.
Scott Manley should be the term for doing things more impressive than what is asked for in the 100% completion goal. example:what he does with these Reddit challenges.
excellent work sir!
I'm impressed, good job Scott!
There's something beautiful about this rocket.
Oh Scott... You and your harderer mode. Also, that was probably the best improvised song I've ever heard.
This is quite possibly the coolest thing you've ever done.
lmao i had a pretty good laugh when your orange tank blew.... thanks for the laugh sir!
I just did this now using a similar design to yours... and of course I didn't forget to put those chutes into an action group ;) But well done, I never would've thought of such a design, truly ingenious! :D
I do hope they add more navigation stuff to the game later. Like a little marker to show where KSC is, and topographical maps you could collect and have overlays over the landscape so you can see what you're going to land on.
You can repack parachutes?
Good Lord, Scott, you teach me something new every day.
ahhh good old Kerbal engineering, never disappoints with random stuff blowing up at the most critical of moments xD
Parachute repacking bugs are the bane of my existence. Only safe way to do it is to make sure they're more or less all active before you hit the altitude they deploy at.
I'm always thinking "Scott isn't gonna make it back to Kerbin, he'll run out of fuel!" and then Scott will say something like "Right, we're running low on fuel so we're gonna head back to Kerbin.... via Jool, Ike, Eve, Duna and Laythe, maybe we'll be able to pass Minmus on the way back too." and he still gets back with fuel to spare!
If you jump right before firing your jetpack upwards, you get a nice boost. It works great on gravity wells like Duna's when the jetpack can only just barely overcome it.
can't be done, Scott discussed why in a previous video. mostly due to the game not calculating physics for objects more than 2km away from the player's ship. but also that would only be possible if the Mun was in a geostationary orbit around Kerbin.
Scott, I have a challenge for you. Fly to Laythe on SRB's only, land and return to Kerbin. Space craft must have at least one Kerbal inside or on a Chair and be assembled in Orbit.
The central rocket with the Kerbal launching with no Liquid Rockets. RCS can be used, but only using the small circular RCS Rockets. Kerbal MUST return to Kerbin on the chair and land.
The Construction piece's can use Liquid fuel tanks, but ONLY using either a Skipper or Mainsail. NOTHING ELSE! If that's possible