KSP: Recreating Project Gemini! Space Race Speedrun

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In today's episode of "Space Race Speedrun", we'll be attempting to Speedrun the achievements of Project Gemini, NASA's successor to their Project Mercury!
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@ibimsjoni3160 3 жыл бұрын

You should call the Project "Racing the Space Race"

@lisashiraz5679 3 жыл бұрын

Heck yeah

@WillowK. 3 жыл бұрын

Yea

@jakethegreatimsocoolyounee1203 3 жыл бұрын

Yup

@twDrex 3 жыл бұрын

oh, great name

@matt309 3 жыл бұрын

Race space race

@justlosak6158 3 жыл бұрын

From now, this is my favorite series of KSP

@HasePlayz 3 жыл бұрын

Mine too!

@CASA-dy4vs Жыл бұрын

Mine three!

@megagatlingpea2322 Жыл бұрын

me too!

@thedoctor4637 3 жыл бұрын

I would have liked to see a recreation of Neil Armstrong's Gemini 8. When one of the thrusters was stuck on and the spacecrafts went into a uncontrolled roll.

@superbdul_1 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@brianchan8 3 жыл бұрын

No he was one upping nasa without bugs

@KnightoftheSorryFace 3 жыл бұрын

Now this is a certified space moment

@rblxtutorials1881 3 жыл бұрын

*yes*

@jensleering960 3 жыл бұрын

69 likes

@KnightoftheSorryFace 3 жыл бұрын

Why did this get 90 likes

@justmike9556 3 жыл бұрын

@@KnightoftheSorryFace Because it's a certified space moment

@umloucobr4980 3 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@mitchlza 3 жыл бұрын

Gemini 10: Michael Collins did 2 space walks, and was the first human to do so.

@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 3 жыл бұрын

The first human to do it was a cosmonaut named Aleksei A. Leonov in March of 1965, the first American was Ed White in Gemini 4 the following june.

@CardZed 3 жыл бұрын

@@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 He said he was the first human to do 2 space walks

@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 3 жыл бұрын

@@CardZed guess I just looked at it differently, it could mean either.

@russelthebastard 3 жыл бұрын

@@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 he meant that Michael Collins was the first humans to do 2 spacewalks in one mission

@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 3 жыл бұрын

@@russelthebastard I understand, it has been pointed out.

@augustinplagne7543 3 жыл бұрын

everyone: wen hop me: when sovietic crafts

@M4X-007 3 жыл бұрын

Matt’s ego while this video (proceeds to multiply by 10^10^100)

@henry55 3 жыл бұрын

is that a googolplex

@tomrigney8617 3 жыл бұрын

@@henry55 im pretty sure a googolplex would be 10^100 * 10^100

@henry55 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomrigney8617 i thought it was 10^googol

@shikhar3281 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomrigney8617 a googolplex is 10^(10^100) that is 1 followed by a googol zeros

@tomo_ka3040 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomrigney8617 i thought it was 10x10^100

@LoCoNights 3 жыл бұрын

You should have used the agena to boost your orbit! Gemini 11 did this and holds a orbit record that stands today. Gemini 11 wasn’t the only mission to use the agena engine but it’s the only one that go that high. Love the videos!

@tobias_bohne 3 жыл бұрын

This! Thank you for saying that

@jamestrexler6329 3 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it lol. I was even waiting for him to do a boost while they were docked, too. I'd thought it was done on 12, but that was solely from memory. Glad you had the real facts haha.

@sverrekolman4841 3 жыл бұрын

Tbh I can't wait to see you do a Skylab recreation

@Hydralyph 3 жыл бұрын

Skylab and Salyut/Almaz are such interesting points in space history imo

@Agent_B0771E 3 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to see in the future: "Ksp 2: Recreating the whole Artemis program speedrun"

@Huberchet 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on being featured on the ksp2 showcase!

@xenno8496 3 жыл бұрын

That caught me off guard and I didn't realize it was his until the kraken ate it 😂

@BrightRedDingus 3 жыл бұрын

As a space history super-buff (self-named) I approve and love what you're doing Matt please many many more

@daltonmojica 3 жыл бұрын

I’m not quite sure whether your name is related to space history 😆

@BrightRedDingus 3 жыл бұрын

Gonorrhea is space-borne

@CPS747-8 3 жыл бұрын

I think you should try to do the flying Gemini capsule, where they thought they could turn Gemini into a paramotor craft and land it. That would be interesting if you could work that out.

@jakemckee2005 3 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking he should do the rogallo wing!

@MattLowne 3 жыл бұрын

Tricky to do! But I think it'd possible using a kerbal parachute 🤔

@jakemckee2005 3 жыл бұрын

@@MattLowne I think Scott Manley did it.

@jakemckee2005 3 жыл бұрын

@@MattLowne and as a big fan of Gemini, I was really mad to find out they made the Gemini service module the same width as the fuel tanks and without a taper.

@MattLowne 3 жыл бұрын

@@jakemckee2005 tbf having it tapered would have meant having to have another set of tanks and parts of that diameter in addition to the new 1.85m size, so I understand why they did it.

@squeeb5012 3 жыл бұрын

NASA engineers hate him:

@raquelfabro7995 3 жыл бұрын

title of the series should be "Matt Lowne's Race into Space" in honour to our forgotten DOS game, "Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space".

@vicroc4 3 жыл бұрын

yes

@quinnmarchionini7997 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Waterfall has effects for the rcs thrusters! Matt left the old models for the 4 and 5 way thrusters on the stock crafts so that’s why they didn’t show up

@silvereagle2061 3 жыл бұрын

Damn dude, you make this look too easy.

@phantompenguin1065 3 жыл бұрын

What’s the next program? I’m personally exited for Soyuz

@balders2030 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@depressed_neutron 3 жыл бұрын

Im hyped for Appollo lol

@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 3 жыл бұрын

Vostok first

@depressed_neutron 3 жыл бұрын

@@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 that was a good one too

@xenno8496 3 жыл бұрын

@@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 Vostok? or Voskhod first?cause I thought Vostok came after Voskhod

@diamondswiss8026 3 жыл бұрын

I know I am late but this video actually means a lot to me. My grandfather was actually one of the NASA computer programmers who actually worked on the Gemini missions (as well as the later Mercury missions)

@KJ-vu4yp 3 жыл бұрын

I love this series! Definitely want to see you recover all the debris left scattered around the Kerbin system.

@somerandomnification 3 жыл бұрын

5:00 "And I don't mean to inflate my own gazebo here"... Thank you Matt. I don't think any of us want to see that. :)

@rbxless 3 жыл бұрын

"Not to twang my own banjo but..."

@somerandomnification 3 жыл бұрын

@@rbxless There is, of course, no way you could know that I actually play the banjo. I'm not sure if I'm enjoying the joke or if I'm being the joke. Oh wait, that's right, I'm a banjo player... :)

@rbxless 3 жыл бұрын

@@somerandomnification Haha I was quoting Matt in an older video I'm not a stalker

@somerandomnification 3 жыл бұрын

@@rbxless So you're saying that Matt's the stalker... Somehow I knew this was all about me! :)

@matt309 3 жыл бұрын

@@somerandomnificationдаруд сандсторм

@kristiandiesalot 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, Can you also do modern projects like SLS and alternate history projects like the soviet moon rocket the n1.

@depressed_neutron 3 жыл бұрын

Ya,That would be nice

@tvre0 Жыл бұрын

He's done both, N1 twice.

@raytan956 3 жыл бұрын

missed the crazy spinning that neil armstrong did

@AdamJMeadTheOraclesClassroom 3 жыл бұрын

I look forward to these every week, thanks Matt! Perhaps you could have raised your orbit with the Agena and then spiraled out of control a la Gemini VIII. Always room for improvement. JK. JK. Nice work.

@noevalop5088 3 жыл бұрын

What a good moment to watch Matt KSP video In Raining day

@arikbord2256 3 жыл бұрын

While not a scheduled test, the Gemini 8 accident was a huge test of pilot control systems and could be considered a post-hoc mission objective (training on how to correct an out of control spin is now standard astronaut training based on the lessons learned from Gemini 8). Perhaps you could do a separate series connected to this one which recreates accidents (Gemini 8, Appollo 13, Challenger, Columbia, etc.)? Also, are you planning to make a skylab?

@tvre0 Жыл бұрын

They trained for out of control spins in Mercury with the big spinny chair, I believe.

@arikbord2256 Жыл бұрын

@@tvre0 The big spinny chair was to test astronauts for disorientation, but it wasn't a simulator during during mercury and gemini, iirc. They do use it for that now though. In the early days they had to do math calculations and flip switches and do other complex tasks in the spinny chair, but they had no control over the actual chair. The original Mercury prototype didn't even have any pilot controls at all, as the engineers thought of astronauts as merely the passengers in their engineering marvel. it was the first 7 that insisted on the ability to pilot the craft directly (if they hadn't, Armstrong and Scott would likely have been killed in Gemini 8, as would Lovell, Haise, and Swigert on Apollo 13).

@Nghilifa 3 жыл бұрын

You forgot using the Agena to boost the Gemini to a higher orbit and/or using the Agena to go to a higher orbit, then using it to go to a lower orbit rendezvousing with another Agena. It's just me nitpicking though, this was highly entertaining indeed!

@Eversoncars 3 жыл бұрын

Rip rocket lab “Running Out Of Toes”

@superbdul_1 3 жыл бұрын

Rip

@PanzerkampfwagenausfTschechosl 2 жыл бұрын

Rip

@Shaquiifa 3 жыл бұрын

5:20 Matt, there’s an anime called Planetes, which is about Orbital Debris collection in the near future. I dunno how much you know about anime, but Planetes is actually very scientifically accurate on how spaceships works, how debris are very dangerous, and there are bits of details that makes the viewer appreciate how the director understands the soundless beauty of vacuum. There’s is a ship in the show called DS-12 “Toybox”, it’s debris collection ship that have little rugs inside to capture large debris, bring it back to the space station or have have it de-orbited. Maybe do something like that?

@quantumrandomness5114 3 жыл бұрын

7:35 matt: allowing me to one up those noobs at NASA NASA: WHY U BULLY ME

@jakistam1000 3 жыл бұрын

To simulate Gemini 8, take a laptop to a fast carousel and, while spinning IRL, spin the capsule in KSP. Then stabilise it, without the use of SAS, and in cocpit view.

@samu_cornia9991 3 жыл бұрын

Been waiting for this episode

@oneistar6661 3 жыл бұрын

Was pleasure flying with Lowne aerospace. Matt, when you'll get into RO+RSS+RP1 and show the real recreations or use it in other series of yours? Cheers!

@HermanVonPetri 3 жыл бұрын

And you managed to do it without spinning out of control due to a malfunctioning RCS thruster! Seriously though, the Gemini series is seriously underappreciated. It was in Gemini that we really learned the functional basics of how to operate in space. Also, after resisting my whole life, I've finally come around to pronouncing it "Gimunee." I figure that if it was good enough for NASA and Walter Cronkite then it's good enough for me.

@tarmagain2771 3 жыл бұрын

member privileges. early vids poggers

@phantompenguin1065 3 жыл бұрын

@LT101YT 3 жыл бұрын

@Milkshakes-Den 3 жыл бұрын

How do you get those emojis?

@SFtStars 3 жыл бұрын

@@Milkshakes-Den be a channel member

@TheHutchy01 Жыл бұрын

Gemini Seven sounds hellish. You would absolutely have to pick two astronauts who liked each other for that, or at the very least, two who could tolerate each other.

@charliethompson2009 3 жыл бұрын

Matt... This is awesome keep up the good work!

@zack_the_nardo 3 жыл бұрын

Yes he is my favorite

@Ciotkosul 3 жыл бұрын

You should try to recreate the venera 9 mission its a probe mission but almost noone knows about it and it deserves more attention

@InventorZahran 3 жыл бұрын

The only Venera I've heard of is a resturaunt on Venus: Venera Bread

@MattLowne 3 жыл бұрын

The entire Venera program is probably the most famous and well-known Venus program lol. It would be fun to recreate but I'm not sure how interesting it would be for a video, given that it's a robotic craft and there's no return mission

@fousiyashaju6699 3 жыл бұрын

@@MattLowne Do you have planet shine mod installed?

@dannypipewrench533 Жыл бұрын

8:25 The AJ-10 could be ignited nearly indefinitely. It was used in its various versions on a variety of spacecraft and upper stages, including the Apollo Service Module the Titan Transtage, and the Delta II upper stage. All it needed to light was the propellant lines to open, due to using hypergolic propellants. I believe this indefinite property was true for the Apollo Service Module. Transtage limited it to 3 ignitions. I think Delta II upper stage only did one burn, due to being a lunch stage and not an orbital maneuvering stage.

@cavanaldred2329 3 жыл бұрын

amazing video matt having a catch not watched for a while due to being busy ive missed the videos

@Coldnessupreme 3 жыл бұрын

Project gemini has always been my favourite, the look of the space craft was cool it often doesn't get mentioned unlike apollo, or mercury but it made some great achievements like the first american space walk in gemini 4 and the first docking of two spacecraft together in gemini 8

@PanzerkampfwagenausfTschechosl 2 жыл бұрын

It is interesting to me because it is almost like a bridge between Mercury and Apollo. It also paved the way for all space stations as it he,led us learn to dock and spacewalk.

@yuri_kerman1906 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Finally the splendid Gemini program!

@ur_pilot_4_2day82 3 жыл бұрын

3:58 the space music at that altitude tripped me up

@KlestoHeHe Жыл бұрын

I’ve watched every video in this series, I even watched the Soviet space program. I’m on mobile and I’ve been playing spaceflight simulator. And I’ve took inspiration from each video and made it in sfs!

@uyvisarez6390 3 жыл бұрын

every vids of matt lowne is Very EXCITING!!!

@benisjammin8926 3 жыл бұрын

Now this is a certified moment

@no_name2882 3 жыл бұрын

ok now this is the earliest i have ever been. 1 minute ago? holy!

@ZenothGaming1 3 жыл бұрын

I love this series!

@imitt12 3 жыл бұрын

I've seen a Titan II in person, and you're correct about it being taller.

@legotrainfan1256 3 жыл бұрын

Great Series Already

@Bizub4 3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to see Matt speedrun Starship prototypes lol

@maxepstein5955 3 жыл бұрын

There have been a couple historical missions to destroy/retrieve space debris. It would be pretty cool if you were to "one-up" them by getting it all in one launch while still showcasing what the original did

@TLXGaming 3 жыл бұрын

I can’t wait for the apollo program part

@erik365365365 3 жыл бұрын

The large flight info was 👌🏻

@mihirgajjarv-b6358 2 жыл бұрын

Nasa be like - Give his address We are hiring him right now 🤣🤣

@kinkynagbag85 3 жыл бұрын

It's look super good my guy 😁

@grogman493 3 жыл бұрын

engines can't be re-ignited an infinite amount of times unless the fuel is hypergolic

@jkjccon 3 жыл бұрын

You make very good models!

@deceased8861 3 жыл бұрын

may i ask what skybox youre using? I love your videos and i hope you will keep uploading, perhaps you could inspect some mods like USI/MKS and its life support features... Keep it up!

@ignArthurism 2 жыл бұрын

"So maybe at the end of this series I'll do a big deep space cleanup" Well that aged like milk

@CoreyKearney 3 жыл бұрын

FYI kerbin at 2.7x scale is just right to still use stock parts and makes the single burn to orbit just something you do most of the time following an efficient gravity turn. It adds about 2000 Dv to your accent. The other planets will depend on witch planet pack you go with.

@eionjons1991 3 жыл бұрын

Will you do a Gemini 11 where they used the Agena Target Vehicle to boost the capsule into an even higher orbit? That would be fun to see!

@catz8449 Жыл бұрын

You forgot the part where the Agena docking nearly killed the astronauts as the Gemini capsule started spinning uncontrollably

@therealdeal3562 3 жыл бұрын

Matt throughout this video: nasa has ppl who has skill issues and I will be ez on them becuz am pro

@axeljohansson6050 3 жыл бұрын

The highlight of the weekend

@johncarnett2668 3 жыл бұрын

Another video from our amazing British Rocket Scientist! Maybe you could try and colonize Minmus.

@witekstadler4823 3 жыл бұрын

i'm waiting for apollo program speedrun ;)

@chrlz8211 3 жыл бұрын

dang, 10 minutes after i went to sleep after being up in the middle of the night, i missed a matt lowne upload. feelsbadman

@thenativemartian5169 3 жыл бұрын

Cant wait for Apollo!

@fr_rave 3 жыл бұрын

Just waiting for this

@dannypipewrench533 Жыл бұрын

15:05 Ah, so it is Gemini VII. Gemini VII stayed in orbit for just short of 14 days. I believe just a few days before it was de-orbited, Gemini VIA was sent up for the rendezvous. But, originally, VIA was supposed to go up first (as just VI), then VII would go up, rendezvous, and then stay up for the endurance test. But, launch trouble with VI resulted in a different schedule.

@pranavarvind4281 3 жыл бұрын

There is one thing. On Gemini 10, the Agena was used to boost the Gemini-Agena combination to a higher orbit.

@capnrotbart 3 жыл бұрын

If I recall correctly one of their objectives was spinning the Gemini Agena together to create some gravity. Well, instead they managed to spin Gemini around its main axis instead and have the astronauts nearly pass out and die. Luckily Neil Armstrong had a Jeb moment and saved the day.

@tommasoperis3395 3 жыл бұрын

I great video, what mod did you use for the engine exhausts visual?

@Hal_Bennett 3 жыл бұрын

Huh, I didn't realize how little I knew about the Gemini program

@iramercer4535 3 жыл бұрын

Its kinda the black sheep of the historical space capsules. I think the mercury was much more known.

@TheStopwatchGod 3 жыл бұрын

16:02 You usd a fuel cell in your video about the mission Acapello 13. The video is titled "A Mun mission where absolutely nothing goes wrong".

@etstudios 3 жыл бұрын

So Matt, next year there's only one way to top this. Do it in again but in Realism Overhaul...

@sven518-7 3 жыл бұрын

Have a lovely day everyone!

@epicgaming8944 3 жыл бұрын

You realy deserve 1 mil

@outblucks6724 3 жыл бұрын

Hello I love ur content keep it up

@jordandegraaff 3 жыл бұрын

Matt, did you see they used some of your footage from the Moonship video in a KSP2 video?

@forge_gamer5174 2 жыл бұрын

please continue this and next do shuttle!

@dekkert5272 3 жыл бұрын

Loving this. Looking forward to seeing the Russian half of the race... :-)

@jackandersen1262 3 жыл бұрын

Some of the Bell 8000 series engines (like those used on Agena) could be ignited practically an infinite number of times.

@cassiemounts6476 2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I was kinda triggered that he left the service module untangled but still one of my favorite series

@andrewjohnroberts9113 3 жыл бұрын

if you can recall you you made a space station with all the gizmos gravity wheels and all that science stuff? is it possible to make a mothership by building it in stages and then attach them in space. After which you could utilise docking for boarding and then pilot the mothership like an SSTO. Have it refuel in space every so often. For it to travel the local and further systems. If so could you make multiple rovers to collect samples and then have them jettison back to the mothership and collate data?

@user_25th9p7 3 жыл бұрын

"gemeni 6, 8 and 7" mwtt lowne 2021 learned to count

@oogityboogity6644 3 жыл бұрын

“We have your spacecraft free indication, what seems to be the problem”

@danteonpvp6602 3 жыл бұрын

LESS GOOOOOOOOO1!!!!!1!!11 PART 2 BABY!!!!11!

@calebadkins2218 3 жыл бұрын

matt: no craft file. me, who sucks at building anything in ksp: why do you have to bully me

@weevil9256 3 жыл бұрын

I used a tapered fuel tank to 2 vector engines at the bottom for a cooler and more accurate looking titan II for my Martian Gemini mission

@picknikbasket 3 жыл бұрын

Ahh, Gemini (correctly pronounced herein as Gem-in-eye, +1 Matt!) my second favourite space project. Get it?, second favourite See Lowne thinks he's got all the hip jokes, well we'll see about that, matey!! ;-)

@KnightoftheSorryFace 3 жыл бұрын

Are there people that pronounce it differently?

@fetzie23 3 жыл бұрын

Will you including the explosions and disaster recovery when it comes to Apollo 13?

@GodOfWallpaper9526 3 жыл бұрын

This is nice

@Roixiong 3 жыл бұрын

lol i was wondering how you were going to build the docking port

@User-zz6si 3 жыл бұрын

How haven’t you uploaded this yet jheeee

@disorganizedmaking 3 жыл бұрын

“At the end of the day this series is not only about me showcasing you know very famous historic space flights, but also allowing me to one up the noooobs at NASA and showcasing my superior ability’s as a rocket scientist“ Matt Lowne 2k21. What do you mean he doesn’t brag a lot…