KSP: Full PROJECT MERCURY Recreation! Space Race Speedrun
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3 жыл бұрынWelcome to a new KSP series: recreating every major program in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union! The twist? We'll be speedrunning it, fulfilling every major achievement of each project in as few launches as possible! This week: Project Mercury!
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This video is intended for audiences 13+ years old.
No craft file provided, as the build is much slower than usual such that you can easily follow-along. I always encourage people to try and build stuff for themselves so that they can "enhance their own skillz" ;)
@MattLowne 3 жыл бұрын
LOWNE SQUAD UNITE! If you want a cool token next to your name then make sure you hit "join" below the video! I am sure that current poggers members will showcase the custom emoji you can get in the replies to this comment 😉
@ethanvillaluz9801 3 жыл бұрын
1st
@prashant.sonali101 3 жыл бұрын
First
@henry55 3 жыл бұрын
or not
@ethanvillaluz9801 3 жыл бұрын
Lol I'm first
@abuBrachiosaurus 3 жыл бұрын
@@ethanvillaluz9801 Not first, I got here 45 seconds ahead of you
@FireRacer4131 3 жыл бұрын
Thinking quickly, Matt constructs a homemade moon rocket using only some string, a squirrel, and a moon rocket.
@okalright3941 3 жыл бұрын
What is the squirrel for.....
@marekmichalovic8711 3 жыл бұрын
@@okalright3941 It's a reference to "Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a megaphone" - just look it up on KZfaq, better than me trying to explain it
@okalright3941 3 жыл бұрын
@@marekmichalovic8711 my original comment was a joke but you're pretty cool and it sounded better in my head so you arent wooshed
@ZaccoOfficial 3 жыл бұрын
@@okalright3941 the moon rocket
@RavenTheVelociraptor 2 жыл бұрын
A regular Macgyver mate 😎
@WouldDieForChomusuke 3 жыл бұрын
Matt Lowne and Scott manly upload within 45 min of each. Very epic
@ukwn404 3 жыл бұрын
That’s like the matrix!
@r4gaming744 3 жыл бұрын
hello
@M3A1GreaseGun 2 жыл бұрын
what
@kiwifruit4734 3 жыл бұрын
“Speed running the space race” I guess speed is a relative term
@MattLowne 3 жыл бұрын
i am speed
@genericusername9849 3 жыл бұрын
@@gonuhi What?
@pedrobreyner7204 3 жыл бұрын
@@gonuhi oh boi idc
@pedrobreyner7204 3 жыл бұрын
Also the commenter is not a member
@pixelgamer4985 3 жыл бұрын
@@gonuhi probably not
@user-te7rf8ik7z 3 жыл бұрын
Is this the perfect merge of Matt's KSP videos and "This week in history"?
@bobbyflen248 3 жыл бұрын
The colab of the century
@nickburton9366 3 жыл бұрын
It's prep work for the anniversary. in fact, Matt, those Indian launches you can't show? How about you do a kerbal artists sketch?
@Cleptro 3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Mynameistux 3 жыл бұрын
"Are you guys excited" Yes, yes I am
@user-qh9wo9ls5s 3 жыл бұрын
You covered entire program in 20 minutes? One russian streamer spent 8 hours on recreating just Alan Shepherd's suborbital flight...
@user-te7rf8ik7z 3 жыл бұрын
Можно ссылку?
@t2cm2a7 3 жыл бұрын
@The Catonaut and i spent 6 years not buying ksp and i still dont have it
@user-qh9wo9ls5s 3 жыл бұрын
@@user-te7rf8ik7z поищи канал Nikadim Games
@blurpp2047 3 жыл бұрын
@@t2cm2a7 and i spent 9 years to found out ksp
@zasypayu_pod_slipknot 3 жыл бұрын
But he focused on the story of the flight itself and communication with subscribers
@javierbates6031 3 жыл бұрын
Ha ha. Was literally building building a mercury Atlas. It does have mods though. Keep up the good work Matt
@haydenrueps6866 3 жыл бұрын
What mods are you using? I use a large mod list because I love seeing what people make.
@javierbates6031 3 жыл бұрын
@@haydenrueps6866 Blue-dog design Bureau is a great mod for recreating American rockets
@TheEmeraldMenOfficial 3 жыл бұрын
@@javierbates6031 ayyy
@hihi-rp2uy Жыл бұрын
Restock+ has heatshield colors AND a mercury launch escape system (more stuff too)
@jamlessdoughnut 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine not being a member. Couldn’t be me
@doodleboi7034 3 жыл бұрын
But me poor :(
@saint_lewis 3 жыл бұрын
What a flex 🤍
@ccm2059 3 жыл бұрын
Imagine flexing on kids who can't get the membership
@LT101YT 3 жыл бұрын
Member gang
@ccm2059 3 жыл бұрын
@The Catonaut thanks for the correction
@sodaithink 3 жыл бұрын
Nobody talking about how absolutely AMAZING the Atlas he built looks?
@picknikbasket 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome idea. Looking forward to the series, Matt!
@jennydrexler9200 Ай бұрын
“If it fails on the a suborbital mission it’s fine” “If it fails on an orbital mission you need THE BLUNDERBIRDS!”
@TheChin58 3 жыл бұрын
Love watching these at work on my break. Perfect timing!
@Hex2906 3 жыл бұрын
"3 rockets m8, sall u need" I've repaleated that about 20 times now
@mustang5132 3 жыл бұрын
You forgot to keep the thruster pack on for Glenn's re-entry!
@mattr7994 3 жыл бұрын
The thruster pack didn’t actually stay on, though. The light in the capsule was malfunctioning, so they *thought* it was still on, but it had actually detached just fine.
@mustang5132 3 жыл бұрын
@@mattr7994 I could be mistaken but I think you’re thinking about something else. They purposely kept it on because his heat shield was coming loose
@mattr7994 3 жыл бұрын
@@mustang5132 I looked it up and it turns out I remembered a slightly mangled version of what happened - you are correct. The faulty light was telling them that the *heat shield* had come loose (although it was actually just fine), so they kept the retro package on in an attempt to hold it in place. I remembered the problem was actually a bad indicator light and not a real problem, but I was thinking the issue was failure of the retro pack to separate, not of the heat shield to remain where it was supposed to be.
@brianchan8 3 жыл бұрын
No he was one-upping nasa
@MightySpaceman 3 жыл бұрын
"our history in space is very interesting, and long" that pretty much exactly describes the canceled NASA Ares rocket 🤣
@JeffDG 3 жыл бұрын
In addition to the # of orbits...John Glenn’s flight also did not jetison the retro-pack. They had a sensor indication of the heat shield coming loose and kept the retro pack on to hold it on for reentry.
@NotTheHeroStudios 3 жыл бұрын
This was probably the best Atlas Recreation Ive seen using only stock parts, nice
@jayhurley2116 3 жыл бұрын
Hi, Matt! I found your channel a few months ago and have watched almost every video of yours since. Just wanted to say I love how knowledgeable you are about both space and KSP. I also love how you explain so much about what you're doing in-flight and give us so many tips for the "best" way to fly. Can't believe I'm making *that* pathetic essay comment but I just wanted to show you some love and tell you thank you for all your wonderful content!
@Nghilifa 3 жыл бұрын
Very impressive! It's "funny" that a/the continuous burn to orbit was the standard back then (Mercury/Gemini/Apollo) compared to what we do in KSP.
@galehar 3 жыл бұрын
I'm really excited about this new KSP series. Great idea Matt, loving it!
@SpaceDave-on8uv 3 жыл бұрын
1 and a half stage, mmmh yes perfect name
@doodleboi7034 3 жыл бұрын
Does that exist?
@anonymouskerman8318 3 жыл бұрын
@Merton Wu it wasn't a case of whether it was possible l, it was more that its difficult to do and they didn't really have the knowledge yet.
@MattLowne 3 жыл бұрын
@@anonymouskerman8318 Yeah, Atlas was developed as a missile in the 40s, if memory serves me correctly then by the time Mercury Atlas launched they already knew you could light engines in flight, but the Atlas vehicle was already built
@NikitaWolf1776 3 жыл бұрын
You also jettisoned the retro-rockets after your second mission. IRL there were some suspected problems with the heatshield so the retro-rocket package was ordered to not be jettisoned in the hopes that it would help hold the heatshield on better
@rbxless 3 жыл бұрын
Vostok next? Probably my favourite space program after Lowne Aerospace
@MattLowne 3 жыл бұрын
The next will be Gemini. My current idea is we do all of America up to the Moon landing, then we rewind and do it all again but in the Soviet Union...possibly ending with another moon landing 🤔 🤔 🤔
@NovaCosmo 3 жыл бұрын
@@MattLowne That would be cool to see! A bit of spaceflight alternate history is always fun to watch.
@highqualitypinewood717 3 жыл бұрын
Three cheers for SN15 :D
@spaceypoopnoob9563 3 жыл бұрын
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@theburgerbox9576 3 жыл бұрын
@@spaceypoopnoob9563 2nd cheer :)
@gamersheheryar8770 3 жыл бұрын
@Cosmic Gaming 4th cheer
@lordhusky8982 3 жыл бұрын
@@gamersheheryar8770 5 Cheers!
@theburgerbox9576 3 жыл бұрын
we need MOAR CHEERS lol
@haburger5607 3 жыл бұрын
When you have done all the irl space race do the for all mankind timeline!
@abuBrachiosaurus 3 жыл бұрын
FINALLY A NEW VIDEO! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A NEW LOWNE VIDEO ALL WEEK! Kinda been having a bad week...
@MattLowne 3 жыл бұрын
I did upload a KSP video on Wednesday, so you wouldn't have had to wait ALL week ;)
@abuBrachiosaurus 3 жыл бұрын
@@MattLowne I must have missed that video, gonna go watch it when I am done with this one!
@woodbyte 3 жыл бұрын
Every day without a new Lowne video feels like a week, though.
@abuBrachiosaurus 3 жыл бұрын
@@woodbyte Same
@desmond-hawkins 3 жыл бұрын
12:00 I had never realized how chonky these Mercury-Redstone rockets were. It looks like a sizeable shiny silver sausage slowly soaring skyward.
@patricks_music 3 жыл бұрын
I love that you are building historical rockets. It’s nice to educate everyone on the history of where we got to today. Keep up the good work!
@gamersheheryar8770 3 жыл бұрын
What if the space race was in ksp and not in irl : this is what would happen probably
@ZenVistaYT 3 жыл бұрын
6:28 Subtitles: murky red stone rocket help me i am laughing hard right now
@dsmiley53 3 жыл бұрын
I love this idea for a series and I can't wait for more videos. If I had one super tiny nitpick, it's the retro pack on the Mercury capsule was solid fuel rather than liquid fuel and so they had to time the burn correctly since it was a fixed amount of delta-v and thrust. But otherwise you pretty much nailed everything -- I especially loved the Atlas, maybe the best stock Atlas I've seen -- and that was a great video.
@AdamJMeadTheOraclesClassroom 3 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Alan Shepard's home town of Derry, New Hampshire! Home of the Astros at Pinkerton Academy (nicknamed because of Shepherd, who was a graduate).
@stardust4089 3 жыл бұрын
I’m so excited for the rest of this series! Great work Matt!
@sleepdeep305 3 жыл бұрын
Your upload schedule is not nice to my sleeping schedule, BUT I SHALL BE DAMNED IF I MISS A MATT LOWNE UPLOAD!
@tmo_117 3 жыл бұрын
Been really enjoying learning about the space missions and playing them in Reentry, seeing this makes me want to do this myself in KSP
@nickmiller3501 3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant idea for a series, looking forward to the rest
@GameplayReviewUK 3 жыл бұрын
Fun video, I loved the end where they where all in flight together :D
@hephep22314 3 жыл бұрын
Epic Matt! Keep up the great work love your vids!
@Admiral45-10 3 жыл бұрын
,,We don't have a money, but we have a Jebedaiah - who could notice a diffrence, anyway?" XD
@thekeithfulbarrums 3 жыл бұрын
Cool series idea!
@ajblaze7028 3 жыл бұрын
Super impressive thing, but one small detail on Mercury Atlas, They kept the retrorockets attached entering the atmosphere because they were worried that the heat shield would come off. Good mission none the less though!
@dathiccestpotato9426 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Id love to see a series on the space race from you. I had the same idea on my channel too, but I was just doing Apollo and Artemis.
@maximk.617 3 жыл бұрын
That's one hell of a series! Love it!!!
@recifebra3 Жыл бұрын
great video!! Love the Mercury missions.
@zindleethan2061 3 жыл бұрын
you can see how heavy the last rocket is just by how fast its going like the poor rocket is trying as hard as it can
@bennyfactor 3 жыл бұрын
Great idea, Matt! Fun video
@Matthew-pn1qu 3 жыл бұрын
Great idea for a series, looking forward to more videos!
@C_F_M 3 жыл бұрын
"I am very eccentric here" understatement of the century :PPp
@TheKagento 3 жыл бұрын
I think the idea for this series is great. Keep it up!
@gonuhi 3 жыл бұрын
U matt lowne making a space race video Best day of my life harlaelooyar.
@scp-049 5 ай бұрын
My great grandmother was one of the mathematicians that worked on this project! Awesome!
@Redchrome1 Жыл бұрын
It's not widely known, but the Redstone rocket had stability problems as well. The original Redstone rocket was designed to launch a nuclear warhead weighing several tons. The Mercury capsule was much lighter, which moved the center of mass too far down and made it hard to keep stable. So several hundred pounds of rubber and steel ballast was added to the top of the rocked just below the capsule. Earlier rockets had little or no ballast, but the one which launched Alan Shepard had over 600 pounds. Redstone was a stopgap, and was always known to be inefficient.
@likkleleyley 3 жыл бұрын
Wow keep up the great work you really deserve everything!
@paulschmidt9827 3 жыл бұрын
Love this series idea looking forward to more!
@stanisawholesz8763 3 жыл бұрын
great video, can't wait for the next part :)
@mateocafaro2894 3 жыл бұрын
I did a project on John Glen's flight in 3rd grade. I even made a model of him. He's still in my garage.
@SirJonathanTPunkbottom 3 жыл бұрын
great idea for a series dude! love it
@Ze_Boss07 3 жыл бұрын
To make a Soyuz descent module, take a pomegranate pod, disable the decoupler, and put a fairing base below it, and create a fairing that connects half way up the pod. Clip Separatrons with the minimal amount of fuel inside the faint base to slow down for landing. Then put a heat shield below that. On top of the pod put a reaction wheel, clip it into the pod, and add parachutes.
@szf4rniak367 3 жыл бұрын
I love the idea of recreating the most important space programs of the Cold War. Looking forward for another videos
@WilliamClydeBSCS 3 жыл бұрын
I routinely do single burn orbits, but I have to throttle the engine waaaaay back when I am getting close to circularization.
@Michaelonyoutub 3 жыл бұрын
I was trying to do this in real solar system and man is it simultaneously the most interesting and difficult thing to pull off. You learn about as much as you learned the first time you learned ksp but now it is to the level of mass fractions and fuel/mass efficiency equations, rather than just "I need more deltaV" and "point engine in this direction to raise orbit". You have to learn actual rocket science and the history behind it, and as someone who love science, history, and video games, it was actually some of the most fun I have had playing a video game.
@CPS747-8 3 жыл бұрын
I'm very impressed with how well you recreated all of these. I'd love to see more! Weren't the retropack rockets supposed to be solid rocket motors, though?
@qusai05 3 жыл бұрын
If they first tested the retro rockets during Alan Shepherd's flight, then why weren't they sure they could light engines in space? Great video btw.
@kidcollectable4043 3 жыл бұрын
Great series Matt!!!!
@justcruisin81 3 жыл бұрын
Great video Matt 👍
@dapotatoking4699 3 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised I haven’t heard of the Mercury project until now
@tiny_desk_engineer Жыл бұрын
17:40 NASA spent those years by calculating, receiving money to buy recources to build the rocket and finally, waiting for the moment to start the launch. But, you're cool too because of making your videos and doing cool things that we're so exited to see, like, doing space stations around Duna! Thank you! !Attention! You will be rickrolled in next one minute Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down! Never gonna tell a lie, And hurt you! Never gonna make you cry! Never gonna say goodbye! Never gonna run around and Desert you!
@pristan416 3 жыл бұрын
Really cool idea, keep it up!
@csljr1 3 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to the future iterations of this series - do you think you will need to split them into multiple parts (i.e. Apollo part 1, part 2, etc.), due to the sheer number of flight objectives that Gemini and Apollo accomplished, will you combine multiple missions into a single launch,or do you anticipate making a longer video summarizing the whole program? I'd like a longer one just due to the quality of your work, but imagine it would take you much longer to make as well
@pop5678eye 3 жыл бұрын
8:02 Nice demonstration on how brutal the g-forces were on such a steep flight profile.
@GoSlash27 3 жыл бұрын
That's an awesome looking Mercury/ Atlas!
@notkyrill1144 3 жыл бұрын
Nice Video! Cool Idea
@billy5179 Жыл бұрын
To reach orbit in one burn keep the time to apoapsis close to around 5 to 10 secondes by moving your nose up or down in direction of the flight pass ( not directly from the start but when your apoapsis is around 30 km). you can see your time to apoapsis (and the hight of apoapsis) by canging the information window in the lower left corner by pressing on the purple icon.
@ryanhebron4287 3 жыл бұрын
I'm down for the historical recreations. It would be cool to see the most famous failures reenacted as well
@theyellowdoor8677 3 жыл бұрын
so hyped for this new series 😊
@fhqwhgads97 3 жыл бұрын
good stuff, would love to see more interior pov shots
@haganfrey5490 3 жыл бұрын
Yay! Such a good new series!
@tor3875 3 жыл бұрын
Great work!
@jacobodrzywolski9906 3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this. Love space history.
@Deepnuds174 3 жыл бұрын
My favourite thing to do in ksp is to recreate ships can’t wait for gemini!
@BALDO3 3 жыл бұрын
Matt, this series rocks :)
@jordandegraaff 3 жыл бұрын
Love this new series!
@hiltibrant1976 3 жыл бұрын
Great idea for a video series!
@tristo00 3 жыл бұрын
This is an awesome series!
@MrAstonishing47 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly an hour after video was uploaded!! Nice video
@mattcox221 3 жыл бұрын
Love ur vids!
@spheralflunky59BR 3 жыл бұрын
Nice!!! Keep that series please!
@staceydesavoye5030 3 жыл бұрын
please keep going with this series
@frederik8108 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing series Exited for more
@midasd7925 3 жыл бұрын
Great idea!!
@julius6103 3 жыл бұрын
Best idea!😍
@jkbricks455 3 жыл бұрын
Love this series!!!
@jvn7023 3 жыл бұрын
Nice on Matt!
@alexanj1989 3 жыл бұрын
Mat i love your KSP vids
@ajax5117 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, I recommend you take a look at the Bluedog Design Bureau mod for KSP. They have full stock alike recreations of real rockets for KSP like Mercury / Atlas / Titan etc. They also have a bunch of the probes including ranger/explorer / mariner
@OfficialInstallation 3 жыл бұрын
Very excited!
@Yavorh55 3 жыл бұрын
Thinking if getting back into KSP and recreating these based on your vids!
@MrSpruce 3 жыл бұрын
That chrome fairing looks great!
@ethannorton564 3 жыл бұрын
LOVE THIS IDEA MATT can you put the Luna program in there I know you've done n1 and alternate history series but it'd be cool to see how you'd do it differently I'd also love to see post race programs too like the venture star
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