The Secret Station - The First Module (#2) (If History Had Gone Differently)

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The Secret Station - The First Module (#2) (If History Had Gone Differently)

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In this episode the second module of the MOL, the Reconnaissance and Observational Module (ROM), launches on the MOL-2 mission. The crew spends 60 days in orbit and performs a spacewalk to unstick a stuck high gain antennae.
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@spacecowboy6108 2 жыл бұрын

honestly could see something like this happening if the MOL program got farther off the ground, great video!

@mys721tx 2 жыл бұрын

It's funny that Gemini spacecraft did everything backward. The early flights with Agena Target Vehicle had the famous eyeball-out maneuver. Then there is Gemini B, docking by a hole on the heat shield.

@phmwu7368 2 жыл бұрын

The Soviet-Russian Salyut-1 was the first space station, it orbited Earth for 175 days. Besides the American Skylab, which orbited Earth for 2249 days, the most modern Russian space station was Salyut-6 on which the cosmonauts tested modern equipment such as the Omega Alaska project Speedmaster chronographs and the Orlan space suit. The Russian Mir space station orbited Earth for 5510 days and the ISS - International Space Station already orbited Earth for almost 8500 days ! 🧐

@kevincgustafson 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, got videos on almost all of them!

@kingsleyrocketry 2 жыл бұрын

This video is absolutely amazing, I love all the alternate history stuff you do, also, have you considered making a discord server?

@kevincgustafson 2 жыл бұрын

I suppose I could do that. Just didn't think there would be enough interest.

@desimonevd 2 жыл бұрын

Great what-if videos! FYI, after Blue Gemini separated from MOL, it had to drop its large power and supply module in order to reveal its smaller module containing the retro-rockets. Then after they fired, it would in turn be separated to reveal the heat shield.

@MattBorchert 2 жыл бұрын

Soothing.

@kevincgustafson 2 жыл бұрын

I aim to put you to sleep! :)

@MattBorchert 2 жыл бұрын

@@kevincgustafson According to my current song: SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE! Might be different vibes.

@kevincgustafson 2 жыл бұрын

@@MattBorchert Rockets, Fire, Revolutionary spirits. It all works.

@user-ex4si2md6r 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your great CGI and interesting look back on the MOL

@user-ex4si2md6r 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic look at the little known "MOL" program and I remember when I was a kid building a little scale plastic model kit of a concept of the MOL but 🤔 it was a propaganda kit that was intended to use the kit to show that it's mission was only an air. Force space station for only recerch of space exploration

@Nszewczak 2 жыл бұрын

Do you think this exists in the same 'universe' as the Venus flyby mission video?

@kevincgustafson 2 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@MrCubFan415 7 ай бұрын

Maybe a better question would be whether it’s in the same “timeline”

@randycampbell6307 2 жыл бұрын

Speaking of alternate history flying have you ever heard of the SLS? No not that one, the 1960 USAF proposal for a possible alternative for the Titan III series to meet the SLV-4 requirements. The idea was to marry large diameter segmented Solid Rocket Boosters, (the UA 1200 series was an outgrowth of these studies) to a "high performance" LOX/Hydrogen 'core' vehicle (imaginatively named "A", "B", and "C" :) ) in varying diameters and lengths to allow very different payloads to be tossed into orbit. The "A" version was sized to be transported by rail anywhere in the US and being powered by either a pair of modified hyrdolox LR87 engines, (the LR87H and yes it was tested so the LR87 is in fact the first engine to tested with all of the 'big-3' propellants, kerolox, storables and hydrolox) or a then in design, single J2 engine. The "B" core would be about 25ft in diameter and use four LR87H's or two J2 with an "A" booster for the 'upper-stage'. The "C" version would be used to launch and support Air Force "LUNEX" plans with both a "B" and "A" stage thrown in. Also, any plans for doing something on the Saturn "SLA" (Saturn Lunar Adapter) station or concepts?

@zachbaird4717 2 жыл бұрын

Well produced as usual, this series is keeping me hooked for more !

@danielwhite8838 Жыл бұрын

mol? Nah. Skylab! …What a farce. It all happened, and more.

@matthewscheer2391 2 жыл бұрын

Does the MOL station parts come with the regular RO part mods, or is it a separate mod like BDB? Also love the alternate history series, and I am excited for next episode!

@kevincgustafson 2 жыл бұрын

They are part of the FASA mod

@pontuswendt2486 2 жыл бұрын

AMAZINGNES!!!

@davehamrick5028 Жыл бұрын

Amazing what if?

@wy8528 2 жыл бұрын

wow really cool! did the gemini have EVA capabilities?

@kevincgustafson 2 жыл бұрын

It did, first US spacewalk was from a Gemini capsule.

@Gameknigh 2 жыл бұрын

Hella cool mate!

@robertcampbell6349 2 жыл бұрын

What might have been.

@Sasza3940 2 жыл бұрын

Are you planning more episodes in this series?

@kevincgustafson 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, at least two more

@Nathan-dk4mv 2 жыл бұрын

@@kevincgustafson Nice :) :) soo... this will be like the International Skylab Series? :) Nice to see that :) I have a personal love for the canceled MOL... and i have another question: Are you thinking about revisiting such things like "One Giant Leap" and the other older stuff? That are great videos but hearing you doing that commenting you do for the last years is bringing your videos to their absolute peak performance.

@kevincgustafson 2 жыл бұрын

@@Nathan-dk4mv First off, thanks so much for that. Second, I probably wont re-visit the Alternative History ones exactly, but I plan to go back to Vostok-1 and perhaps some others.

@Nathan-dk4mv 2 жыл бұрын

@@kevincgustafson Okay :) :) Thank your for the answer :) :) and just to be shure: That wasn´t to be meant i a way that i think your old videos are below standard, no, you just learned and evolved in doing those things.... and KSP and is mods evolved to. And i am looking forward to what you could probably do with KSP 2 as a platform if you plan to buy it. Who needs CGI for this documentary´s if KSP can give you just the same experience.