“It took weeks, months, years, for me to work out the formula, but once I worked out the formula for the maneuver node, Scott played KSP again” -KSP Devs 2019

What? An actual edited Kerbal video from Scott? Wooohooo

Finally a kerbal space program video from scott

In case none of the 163 other commenters pointed this out: There actually was a radar altimeter in vanilla KSP but it was inside the cockpit!

"Normally these days when we're sending spacecraft to Jupiter..." Think how awesome it is that that's a perfectly reasonable sentence.

Lol, the length of the mission was 36 years. -Almost as long as we have been waiting for another KSP video

I had to check that KZfaq wasn't recommending me an old Scott KSP video. And that classic Scott Manley opening o my. also omg radar alt *finally*

Glad to see you are still doing KSP videos. KSP is how I first found you, years ago. After that I kept coming back for all the great science and space info you provide. Keep up the great work.

Yes! i've been waiting for this!

Confirmed: Scott is the 17th KSP player to visit Dres -- 4th if you do not count devs

" That's 36 years of my life in 13 minutes 51 seconds " - Jebediah Kerman

YESSS! MOAR KSP!!!! The "gamer" part of Astronogamer cannot be without Kerbal. Interstellar quest was awesome.

Glad you’re going back to KSP. Wish this video was more on the old tutorial style. I was all excited to see you explain gravity assists in detail and show how you made your timing decisions. Hope you’ll get back to actual teaching. I miss those vids. Maybe even a reboot of the tutorials???

I'm just imagining some poor Kerbal, straight out of college being put to work on what they were told was going to be an exciting new satellite mission, watching as friends and colleagues are promoted or assigned work on cutting edge technologies while they continue monitor the same little satellite they sent into space all those years ago...then 36 years later finally being able to retire having worked on a total of one project their entire career.

Me: 1500 Delta-V... yeah, that should be enough to get out to Duna and back if I'm very careful. Scott: Lets hit every planet in the system and end in rotation around Jool.

This reminds me of the good old days of months long KSP playthroughs

Kerbal Space Program? What is this

Can you make a video using principia’s lagrangian point for the Interplanetary superhighway concept?

Mr. Manley, would you ever consider doing another series like Reusable Space program or something a little less ambitious? I really loved that series.

Are you doing a kerbal space program series again? That would be nice

The 4 Directional RCS thruster now glows independently ie You thrust forwards, the nossel/s pushing you forward glow, It's really cool Two days ago I updated ksp from 1.4.5 to 1.7 jeez everything changed

I've gotten back into KSP after having your old videos recommended to me, this is just icing on the cake! Thank you Scott!

KSP Video 😍 I love these but I also really enjoy your other videos! Thank Scott for bringing us all this content

I was so happy when you said hello in the beginning.

Finally a KSP video from Scott, such nostalgia...

This video makes me and my minor in Astrodynamics very excited hahahah good content Scott!

Scott, I've watched your KSP videos for a very long time. Thanks for being awesome!

I like to imagine kids in the future "speedrunning" this IRL just for fun

I wouldn't have a clue how to do this. Sometime's I find it more enjoyable to watch KSP than play it for this reason. Thanks Scott

=) WHAT an opening! great channel, unbelievable value

I was hoping to learn a little more about the finesse. Oh well, still an amazing video to watch! Thank you, Scott!!

Holy crap, I need to get back on KSP!

I recently revisited KSP and I"m glad you made a video of it. Hope you are feeling well.

“I’m Scot Manley. Fly Economically!” Doesn’t sound as catchy lol.

So happy to see kerbal space videos again!!!!

I would love to see another KSP series if there’s enough interest from your fan base! Some of my favorite videos to watch before bed

KCP-000 "The Kraken" Object Class: Keter Special Containment Procedures: KCP-000 is to be locked in a 3m x 3m x 3m faraday cage encased in a 0.5m thick concrete-lead exterior in Site KR-12. No less than six 9mm x 1m steel bolts are to run through the faraday cage and concrete shell. The washers and nuts are to be tightened and welded securely such that there are no moving parts, with the long ends of the bolts running into holes drilled directly into bedrock and filled with concrete. Under no circumstances are the bolts to be loosened, nor the cage disconnected from direct contact to the bedrock. Unnecessary loose objects are to be kept away from the containment chamber, and no moving parts are allowed in the containment chamber. Containment chamber is to be kept under constant video and audio surveillance. No less than three electromagnetic sensors are to be placed in the room tuned to detect rays in the [REDACTED] range. Motion sensors are to be placed facing the containment chamber. Any video, audio, electromagnetic anomaly, or movement is to be reported immediately to any Level 4 personnel. Objects exhibiting properties similar to instances of KCP-000A (see Description) are to be reported immediately to any Level 4 personnel, followed by immediate evacuation of all Level 3 or lower personnel from Site KR-12 with exception to any class K personnel as authorized by any Level 4 personnel. KCP-000 is not to be relocated or experimented on without approval from all of O5. Description: KCP-000 is an entity with no physical form. The only way to detect the presence of KCP-000 is through electromagnetic radiation in the [REDACTED] frequency or through it's effects on it's physical surroundings. All physical objects within an approximately 1m proximity to the center of KCP-000 exhibit anomalous properties and can be classified as instances of KCP-000A. Instances of KCP-000A will show signs of rapid movement back and forth when any force is exerted upon them, increasing in velocity at an exponential rate depending on the mass and complexity of the object, proximity to KCP-000, and amount of time exposed. Massive objects and objects with many moving parts tend to be the most susceptible, however large objects require longer exposure to reach a critical point. Object may cause extreme heating due to air resistance, rapid oxidization and combustion, and extreme damages to the surroundings. Instances of KCP-000A will continue to accelerate as they oscillate until they have completely disintegrated or have reached escape velocity. Addendum: Seismic sensors have been placed in Site KR-12 following concerns that keological activity will disturb the KCP-000 containment cell and bedrock, causing an XK-Class end-of-the-world scenario. Preventative measures are being considered by O5, however no feasible solutions have been found.

i love it when i see people play this game and actually understand it's mechanics. that way i get to see it too as my creations have a habit of never getting past either sitting burning at the pad or a very wonky eggshaped and decaying orbit.

Scott, please, make this into a series. I'd love to learn how to do it properly.

*when the theme starts to play* “Now that’s a song I haven’t heard in a long time”

Would love to see some more Surviving Mars, thanks for the great content Scott!

FINALLY!!! KSP!!!! the reason how i found this channel and why i bought the game when i built my pc!

11:33 - I wouldn't call Bop and Pol "practically planets in and of themselves", given that they're the fourth-smallest and second-smallest bodies in the entire Kerbol system, respectively (the smallest and third-smallest being Gilly and Minmus, respectively).

love the kerbal content, love the normal content. you keep doing you Scott

Nice i was waiting for your 1.7 video

I'd like to point out how awesome it is that KSP is still putting out updates after all these years.

He felt like people were passing his ability to play the game, so he needed to reassert his dominance as King of Kerbal Space Program

Didnt realized how much i missed these KSP videos

What I'm getting from all of this is I will never really know how to play this game, but I also know I have fun with it, and clearly you do too.

36 years already! wow time fly by!

Please do another KSP Tutorial, it's been years, and I love those videos. Also the Delta V was added earlier, and helped a little. Also since I'm in career mode could you cover the gravity assist? I know some, but not all the tricks.

Started playing this game when it was version .25. This game has come a long way.

Nicely done. That was fun

Marvelous! Awesome mission!

Yay! Scott Manley and Kerbal Space Program go together like Mac and Cheese!! Moar pleeeese!!:)

I like your new stuff Scott and I understand why you would want to change pace from a gaming channel to a science channel, but it's fun to see KSP again.

So happy to see this

That's an excellent thumbnail! By the way, I personally stayed behind on 1.5, where most mods and my saves still work well.

you have done the one thing ive been wondering is possible

I got an ad for KSP2 before the video started. I'm perfectly fine with that lol

“I’ll save that for another encounter” Nice pun there

A video title iv been looking for ♥

nice 1.7 looks awesome

Almost as slick as Alex Kamal and the Rocinante!

Never fails. I finally get back into the game, get some satellites, a space station, an interplanetary mission. BOOM UPDATE

WOW. Your opening music short in this video sure sounds a like the opening scene of Sierra's Codename: ICEMAN, one of my favorite Sierra games.

Smashing the maneuver node stack for fun and profit.

"Even although" - Scott Manley, 2019

You have a knack of posting vids when I'm wearing your hoodie. Maybe i just wear this hoodie a lot. fly safe

I have started regularly using Mun to help me get back to Kerbin on all of my Minmus missions. It makes a big difference.

Made me remember a friend who was studying astronomy, he was always joking about how "primitive" gravity assists would look for an advanced interplanetary species

We missed ksp videos!

I like how they let you adjust your node in Maneuver window. It was pain in ass sometimes as you never knew which one are you pulling when doing Maneuvers.

Dude. Your mission took 36 years and 40 days. That's a long ass time.

Finesse the trajectory!!!!!!

Cool changes!

I was used to launch SSTOs to orbit, but never knew how to launch towards a planet. Even with additional advanced high ISP engines, what I can do is aim for the moon, aim for it, and fire up engines at full throttle, then turn it around at the middle and decelerate...

YES FINALLY A KSP VIDEO!!!!!

And we're back!!!

Playing Kerbal in-between watching Scott play Kerbal is essential for my wellbeing.

SCOTT: _"Which makes _*_landing on it_*_ a lot of _*_fun."_* 😁😁😁😁

I'm just going to point out that there is this tool called KSP-TOT that can calculate the whole tour, if you choose bodies you want to get an assist from (and mind you, these calculations take significant amount of CPU power so I don't recommend playing the game while it's doing its thing). Great thing either way.

This looks fun!

Yeees back to your roots!

I was really hoping that you were going to show us something in base KSP that helped figure out HOW to do gravity assists. You make it look so easy...I have a hard enough time getting ANY encounter even with transfer planner...

Imagine if this was a career/ science mission... science for days!

Keep doing KSP, Scott! Love gravity assists, wish there was a good tool to plan/calculate them, also to know in advance how much dV a mission will take, total. I'm sure NASA don't eyeball these gravity-assist Pluto missions, etc, and I hate spending hours launching a giant spaceship for Eve/Jool that looks over-specced, only to find, on arrival, that it lacks the dV for Orbit Capture, or to return home.. I end up making a fleet of tankers and run out of playtime making them meet up, dock, transfer fuel, etc and never actually get there. Once you're in Orbit, being able to get the perfect mission plan inc. assists, etc, would be great.. in fact I wish NASA had a public tool for people to look for interesting missions to suggest that could actually be done..

It only took them 4 years to add a radar altimeter.

New voyager probe! APL's Interstellar Probe

I love to see some more KSP. Maybe an other series like the last? Or some challenges you haven't done yet?

This felt like one of your old but good videos in ksp

It would be cool if the highest pilot xp level allowed you to create burn action groups so you could just hit a button and have the craft fire 50% engines for 2.5 seconds, etc. Locking to nodes was cool but I found I only really used the pro and retrograde ones that unlock straight away.

i stopped playing for a while then saw the KSP 2 comeing out so i got both DLCs playing stock.... i feel like such a noob all over aging.. Gravity ASSsist is one thing i never real got in to... thx for the vid

no one: scott manley: landing on tylo is a lot of fun

A bear version of the Spark engine. Finally!

I actually asked Squad for the radio altimeter. So many crashes on the Mun, so many stranded Kerbals

ah yes, finally. Please do KSP moar!

The song is back!

Scott,you officially regained the title of KSP God.

What I would really like is for you to remake a "how to use maneuver notes", because there are so many new functions and it can be wary hard to understand all the info's, plus it is so easy to get confused by all the icons that are popping up when a maneuver line is crossing a target.