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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.
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!
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!
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.
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).
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
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.
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 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.
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 🤔 🤔 🤔
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.
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.
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!
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.
Very good video, really enjoyed it, however... I've watched you build that half stage separation system numerous times, and then tried duplicating it myself, but every time the skirt on my rocket gets hung up on the engine. Not to be defeated, the engineers at the WKSA (Warriorking Space Agency) came up with the radical solution of... flipping the decoupler upside down, and just let it stay attached to the rocket after the half stage was dumped. Works perfectly... I wonder if NASA did that when sending John Glenn into orbit?
@@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
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?
blue dog, RO capsules , and Vens restock are the 3 main Mercury cockpit mods in case anyone in the comments are looking :) - RSS user (Check out Calvin Maclure for the best mercury / atlas build, its flawless.
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
this could have been a cool collaboration series with Amy from Vintage space where she could explain small details and facts of the programs just like few episodes scott manely did with her few years back
The flight plan is not as stupid as my first orbital flight plan, which consisted of: fly straight up to 30km, then turn sideways and hope I got into orbit, without shutting the engines off a any point. (I didn't know how to check my apoapsis or periapsis, so I just had to check in tracking station if i'd got to orbit).
Everyone remembers the Mercury missions because they were the first successes. Everyone remembers the Apollo missions because they went to the Moon. Unfortunately, many people ... um ... 40 or less, don't think too much about the Gemini missions - so named because most of the missions involved the rendezvous of twin, two man capsules in space. These were the missions where NASA worked out how to meet in space, how to dock two craft together, and develop proper procedures for EVA and performing work in micro gravity conditions, with a total of 9 manned flight missions from 1964 to 1966. The things learned in the Gemini missions were not only important to the Apollo program, but most of how we do things in space today was developed during the Gemini missions. KSP is guilty of this lack of memory also; they have a one man Mercury like capsule and a three man Apollo like capsule, but the only two man capsule is the lander.
By throttling the engine and having low TWR on the upper stages of a rocket it is indeed possible to get to orbit without cutting the engines and coasting to apoapsis using a standard gravity turn. I tend to do this on rockets that can just for the sake of realism. I do this by keeping an eye on my time to apoapsis, keeping it around 1 minute on the first bit of the ascent and then slowly lowering it as I get out of the lower atmosphere. It's difficult to achieve a circular orbit using this method but certainly possible. Typically you can get close enough to use a few puffs of RCS to correct into a circular orbit.
You should start using ReStock! It just remodels basically every part to make it look cleaner, plus ReStock+ adds some new parts, like the Mercury launch abort tower.
Matt talking about not clipping when every aircraft/SSTO he's ever built he always clips elevons into other parts which is a much bigger immersion breaker
The mercury redstone was actually a two stage rocket. the bottom part of the rocket was actually a skirt fuel tank that was ditched partway through the flight
Actually a single burn isn’t necessarily inefficient. If you are targeting a very specific orbit you can save fuel by flying well and not having to correct later.
"our history is very long". Hmmm, I find that hard to believe... I been reading history books thay go back to the ancient Sumarians. Great video. I was playing KSP today. Managed to blow up 0 times! wooohooo!
Can you do a recreation of Artemis mission ? It can be with multiple videos .. One to construct the LOPG (moon gateway), one with the orion capsule and one more with the starship on the moon!! :D
Coming back to this now that i have done an RP1 atlas recreation, there is a good reason that rss people do the stage and a half, cause it is surprisingly efficient
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1st
First
or not
Lol I'm first
@@ethanvillaluz9801 Not first, I got here 45 seconds ahead of you
Thinking quickly, Matt constructs a homemade moon rocket using only some string, a squirrel, and a moon rocket.
What is the squirrel for.....
@@okalright3941 It's a reference to "Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a megaphone" - just look it up on UA-cam, better than me trying to explain it
@@marekmichalovic8711 my original comment was a joke but you're pretty cool and it sounded better in my head so you arent wooshed
@@okalright3941 the moon rocket
A regular Macgyver mate 😎
“Speed running the space race” I guess speed is a relative term
i am speed
@@gonuhi What?
@@gonuhi oh boi idc
Also the commenter is not a member
@@gonuhi probably not
Matt Lowne and Scott manly upload within 45 min of each. Very epic
That’s like the matrix!
hello
what
Is this the perfect merge of Matt's KSP videos and "This week in history"?
The colab of the century
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?
Yes
You covered entire program in 20 minutes? One russian streamer spent 8 hours on recreating just Alan Shepherd's suborbital flight...
Можно ссылку?
@The Catonaut and i spent 6 years not buying ksp and i still dont have it
@@ВикторФирсов-е9ф поищи канал Nikadim Games
@@t2cm2a7 and i spent 9 years to found out ksp
But he focused on the story of the flight itself and communication with subscribers
Ha ha. Was literally building building a mercury Atlas. It does have mods though. Keep up the good work Matt
What mods are you using? I use a large mod list because I love seeing what people make.
@@haydenrueps6866 Blue-dog design Bureau is a great mod for recreating American rockets
@@javierbates6031 ayyy
Restock+ has heatshield colors AND a mercury launch escape system (more stuff too)
"Are you guys excited"
Yes, yes I am
Awesome idea. Looking forward to the series, Matt!
Love watching these at work on my break. Perfect timing!
Nobody talking about how absolutely AMAZING the Atlas he built looks?
Imagine not being a member.
Couldn’t be me
But me poor :(
What a flex 🤍
Imagine flexing on kids who can't get the membership
Member gang
@The Catonaut thanks for the correction
FINALLY A NEW VIDEO! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A NEW LOWNE VIDEO ALL WEEK! Kinda been having a bad week...
I did upload a KSP video on Wednesday, so you wouldn't have had to wait ALL week ;)
@@MattLowne I must have missed that video, gonna go watch it when I am done with this one!
Every day without a new Lowne video feels like a week, though.
@@woodbyte Same
This was probably the best Atlas Recreation Ive seen using only stock parts, nice
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.
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!
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!
"3 rockets m8, sall u need" I've repaleated that about 20 times now
Your upload schedule is not nice to my sleeping schedule, BUT I SHALL BE DAMNED IF I MISS A MATT LOWNE UPLOAD!
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!
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.
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.
"our history in space is very interesting, and long" that pretty much exactly describes the canceled NASA Ares rocket 🤣
“If it fails on the a suborbital mission it’s fine” “If it fails on an orbital mission you need THE BLUNDERBIRDS!”
I'm really excited about this new KSP series. Great idea Matt, loving it!
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).
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
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Subtitles: murky red stone rocket
help me i am laughing hard right now
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.
You forgot to keep the thruster pack on for Glenn's re-entry!
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.
@@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
@@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.
No he was one-upping nasa
Vostok next? Probably my favourite space program after Lowne Aerospace
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 🤔 🤔 🤔
@@MattLowne That would be cool to see! A bit of spaceflight alternate history is always fun to watch.
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.
12:00 I had never realized how chonky these Mercury-Redstone rockets were. It looks like a sizeable shiny silver sausage slowly soaring skyward.
Fun video, I loved the end where they where all in flight together :D
When you have done all the irl space race do the for all mankind timeline!
Brilliant idea for a series, looking forward to the rest
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.
,,We don't have a money, but we have a Jebedaiah - who could notice a diffrence, anyway?" XD
What if the space race was in ksp and not in irl : this is what would happen probably
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!
I’m so excited for the rest of this series! Great work Matt!
U matt lowne making a space race video
Best day of my life harlaelooyar.
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.
Very good video, really enjoyed it, however...
I've watched you build that half stage separation system numerous times, and then tried duplicating it myself, but every time the skirt on my rocket gets hung up on the engine. Not to be defeated, the engineers at the WKSA (Warriorking Space Agency) came up with the radical solution of... flipping the decoupler upside down, and just let it stay attached to the rocket after the half stage was dumped.
Works perfectly... I wonder if NASA did that when sending John Glenn into orbit?
Been really enjoying learning about the space missions and playing them in Reentry, seeing this makes me want to do this myself in KSP
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.
Cool series idea!
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.
"I am very eccentric here" understatement of the century :PPp
1 and a half stage, mmmh yes perfect name
Does that exist?
@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.
@@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
I’m surprised I haven’t heard of the Mercury project until now
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?
great video!! Love the Mercury missions.
I routinely do single burn orbits, but I have to throttle the engine waaaaay back when I am getting close to circularization.
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.
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
blue dog, RO capsules , and Vens restock are the 3 main Mercury cockpit mods in case anyone in the comments are looking :) - RSS user (Check out Calvin Maclure for the best mercury / atlas build, its flawless.
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
8:02 Nice demonstration on how brutal the g-forces were on such a steep flight profile.
I love the idea of recreating the most important space programs of the Cold War. Looking forward for another videos
I'm down for the historical recreations. It would be cool to see the most famous failures reenacted as well
My great grandmother was one of the mathematicians that worked on this project! Awesome!
I think the idea for this series is great. Keep it up!
Epic Matt! Keep up the great work love your vids!
That's one hell of a series! Love it!!!
Great idea, Matt! Fun video
After NASA sees 17:50
Nasa on twitter : Wanna work with us?
Matt : *thumbs up*
16:04 actually John Glenn was the first american to achieve orbit
Gagarin achieved orbit on the first launch
this could have been a cool collaboration series with Amy from Vintage space where she could explain small details and facts of the programs just like few episodes scott manely did with her few years back
Great series Matt!!!!
The flight plan is not as stupid as my first orbital flight plan, which consisted of: fly straight up to 30km, then turn sideways and hope I got into orbit, without shutting the engines off a any point. (I didn't know how to check my apoapsis or periapsis, so I just had to check in tracking station if i'd got to orbit).
Wow keep up the great work you really deserve everything!
great idea for a series dude! love it
let's get matt lowne to 500k subscribers by the end of the year!!!!!!!!
Great idea for a series, looking forward to more videos!
Love this series idea looking forward to more!
Three cheers for SN15 :D
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@@spaceypoopnoob9563 2nd cheer :)
@Cosmic Gaming 4th cheer
@@gamersheheryar8770 5 Cheers!
we need MOAR CHEERS lol
Everyone remembers the Mercury missions because they were the first successes. Everyone remembers the Apollo missions because they went to the Moon. Unfortunately, many people ... um ... 40 or less, don't think too much about the Gemini missions - so named because most of the missions involved the rendezvous of twin, two man capsules in space. These were the missions where NASA worked out how to meet in space, how to dock two craft together, and develop proper procedures for EVA and performing work in micro gravity conditions, with a total of 9 manned flight missions from 1964 to 1966. The things learned in the Gemini missions were not only important to the Apollo program, but most of how we do things in space today was developed during the Gemini missions. KSP is guilty of this lack of memory also; they have a one man Mercury like capsule and a three man Apollo like capsule, but the only two man capsule is the lander.
please keep going with this series
Fav UA-camr should be way more popular
By throttling the engine and having low TWR on the upper stages of a rocket it is indeed possible to get to orbit without cutting the engines and coasting to apoapsis using a standard gravity turn. I tend to do this on rockets that can just for the sake of realism. I do this by keeping an eye on my time to apoapsis, keeping it around 1 minute on the first bit of the ascent and then slowly lowering it as I get out of the lower atmosphere. It's difficult to achieve a circular orbit using this method but certainly possible. Typically you can get close enough to use a few puffs of RCS to correct into a circular orbit.
You should start using ReStock! It just remodels basically every part to make it look cleaner, plus ReStock+ adds some new parts, like the Mercury launch abort tower.
That's an awesome looking Mercury/ Atlas!
Actually, three days ago, may 5, was 60 years of Alan Shepard’s flight!. If you got Disney you must see “the right stuff” is so amazing
18:04
Correction:
The Saturn V was originally designed to go to Mars, though was only used for Apollo.
Great video Matt 👍
Matt talking about not clipping when every aircraft/SSTO he's ever built he always clips elevons into other parts which is a much bigger immersion breaker
Nice Video! Cool Idea
I wonder if I'll ever get a "Hello" from Matt? Well anyways... Hello Matt!
The mercury redstone was actually a two stage rocket. the bottom part of the rocket was actually a skirt fuel tank that was ditched partway through the flight
What mod are you using for the realistic engine exhaust?
Historical series are always fun, looking forward to the Russian side in particular!
Actually a single burn isn’t necessarily inefficient. If you are targeting a very specific orbit you can save fuel by flying well and not having to correct later.
"our history is very long".
Hmmm, I find that hard to believe... I been reading history books thay go back to the ancient Sumarians.
Great video. I was playing KSP today. Managed to blow up 0 times! wooohooo!
Recreation of early space exploration? Am I excited? As Borat says, I am very excite! I am very excite!
Can you do a recreation of Artemis mission ? It can be with multiple videos .. One to construct the LOPG (moon gateway), one with the orion capsule and one more with the starship on the moon!! :D
I plan on having Artemis and Ares in this series!
Oh yes I love the mercury program!!!
WOO! FIRST NASA MISSION!
Matt needs to make either a vid/series with all the "near futuristic" parts mods, and make the wackiest things ever.
Coming back to this now that i have done an RP1 atlas recreation, there is a good reason that rss people do the stage and a half, cause it is surprisingly efficient
Oh also, RP-1, engines have limited ignitions, and the atlas engines are ground ignition only