@Gmail X Man you're so right, I can't believe I almost forgot that time in the 1950's when the soviets put a satellite into geostationary orbit and returned the Soyuz rocket, boosters and all, back to earth in one piece and re-furbished it to fly again. How silly of me.
Lol you gotta be joking. The space station is absolutely useless and those "astronauts" aren't really in space. How do people still fall for this nonsense
America: the astronauts can't reach the control panel? Ok, time for a complete redesign that will take years and millions of dollars! Russia: give the man a stick.
Just like the Americans... They wanted a pen that worked in space without all the ink leaking out... they invented the biro after so much hard work... COULD HAVE USED A PENCIL
@@tankigamingwithrichardrock9930 The Graphite present in the pencils was prone to cause a disturbance in the electrical conduction of the intricately designed systems. The graphite in the pencils had a tendency to cause explosions or a fire due to the graphite particles. There was also a risk of fire due to the wood or wood particles which is used in these pencils. The result of these records which were maintained could be easily manipulated and were shoddy in appearance , thus , they were smeared in appearance and were not permanent.
SmarterEveryDay how exactly do they pin point the co-ordinates in the space ? (On earth we can use by help of lang and latitudes and distance as xyz... how about in space ?)
Giri io I don't know for sure but I'm pretty sure it's all about reference points. Like if I wanted earth to be the reference point I'd take the center of earth to be 0, then if I wanted we can say that going relative north is positive Z, and south negative Z, after that though, X and Y planes can be tricky since the earth is moving and spinning in space, so I think what they do is measure distance instead, so you're first coordinate would be your Z and distance, and your second would use the destination as another reference and you'll have a Z relative to it and a distance to it as well. Again I don't really know I am but guessing, someone will surely answer you about it soon and correct me though.
yup got your point :) that's in earth case where we take the center of the earth as reference but how do we measure it for outerspace objects ? for example here ISS and rocket which one should be taken as reference and how do the other know these details it's hard to assume when things are relative :D and im just curious :) hope someone can enlighten me
Giri io Its a combination of using relative distance, velocity, translation, and orientation between the two targets. You don't track a location, you track the target, and find the relative differences between your target, and you. Hope that helps!
HOW TO FLY A SPACESHIP TO THE SPACE STATION! Commander Scott Kelly is about to leave earth, yet he took some of his precious time to meet with us IN A SOYUZ CAPSULE. I was honored to spend a few moments with both him and Commander Wiseman. I would greatly appreciate it if you guys would show him we are thankful by following him on twitter and instagram. instagram.com/stationcdrkelly/ twitter.com/stationcdrkelly The more response this video generates, I'm hoping the higher likleyhood I'm able to do have more opportunities to spend time with these awesome explorers. I would love nothing more than for an opportunity to bring you more videos like this and the growth of Scott's social media (Twitter/Instagram) will probably be NASA's measure of how successful working with Smarter Every Day is! Also share!
+michael Papadopoulos this makes it so much easier, though. get into a circular orbit. hohmann transfer until the orbits are similar. once you get a good CPA, point-and-burn as you say.
You just showed 1.3 million people (so far) how rocket science is actually understandable, and that even an astronaut thought getting to the iss was just a straight shot. Literally this is amazing I am so grateful to be alive to see this
TheUselessStoner dude, F5 for safety! really, you can press F5 to create a quicksafe, like a checkpoint of sorts. then you press and hold F9 to reload the last one or alt+F9 to choose one... (c) DasValdez
SmarterEveryDay thanks for such an awesome video i didn't even imagine how awesome docking at the iss was.... so you know id the space shuttle used the same procedure?
Destin, you should check out a game called Kerbal Space Program. I bet you'd really get a kick out of building your own space ship and trying to land on other planets. The physics in that game is truly remarkable.
gre kiki They're updating the atmospheric model in the next update, which will be version 1.0. Multi-body physics are cool, but not possible with the way KSP is set up. In KSP, the planets are all on rails. If you add multi-body physics, you could start pushing moons and planets around. Don't forget that the actual gameplay would get super complex and probably not fun for 50-70% of the current fans. Patched conics is simplistic, but we were able to land on the moon with it, so I think it's good enough for a casual game like KSP.
A year and a half ago I thought that rockets launched straight up and knew absolutely nothing about spaceflight. Videos like this and certain friends sparked my curiosity and I fell eventually into the fascinating rabbit hole of space travel. So much so that I just started my first year of aerospace engineering. Thanks Destin
Stick with it mate. I am so regretful that I wasn't exposed to this stuff early enough for it to affect the course of my career. You're coming into a fascinating field at a very exciting time. Good luck!
Hehehe; that moment when you watch something like this and you think "he; I do that all the time in Kerbal Space program and it works exactly like that" :) That's one great example how games are not "just games" but very powerful learning tool, because of that game I learned more about space and "rocket" science then I did in all years of my education. So, to all space junkies, go and check out "Kerbal Space Program"
i was surprised when i figured how to do this out on my own with little to no outside help, for that mission where you have to rescue the kerbal in orbit.
As some one who works at the Joint Space Operations Center, I have greatly enjoyed your videos on the ISS! It's really great to see some other incite into the work this country does for space exploration. Keep up the great work!
lukas Bolle both sides ended up make pens as well as the United States also used pencils for a while. The reason we spent a bunch of money on a space pen is that pencil shavings get everywhere and can get behind stuff and cause issues
I think the most amazing part of this is the fact that we are even sending people to space. Like, think about it. We've been on this rock that we call Earth for, an uninterrupted, 3 billion years as some life-form or another. That in the last 60 years we've developed systems to keep people alive to leave Earth and even give us the technology to think about visiting other planets is absolutely mind-blowing. For all the flak that they get, humans are sometimes pretty okay.
KSP has made all this so trivial for many. Love it how the mechanics and the techniques work alike. Also love it that KSP is one of the few games you can learn to master using actual Wikipedia articles as a manual.
The pinnacle of Soviet science - they took the Einstein's "everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" very seriously. Best seen in Soviet weapons.
as we say in Russia - everything must be made for fool... 'cause in extreme situations, people tend to get lost and make lots of mistakes. and, of course, the simplest design is always the most reliable.
I am sooooo jealous! My daughter and hubby think I'm too obsessed with Scott Kelly's almost-year-long mission because I have been following it since the beginning and constantly wait for the ISS to pass so I can just watch in awe and wonder what it's like. They can tell us what they experience, but it just isn't the same as experiencing it yourself. AND you got to sit with him on the SOYUZ!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!! Love ur stuff! Thanks for all the information you put out there. We love it!
Wow, I've been playing too much Kerbal Space Program. You were introducing Scott Kelley, but my brain heard "Scott--" and immediately thought you were gonna say "US astronaut Scott Manley"
You deserve more than you get, I didn't know the whole concept of docking with the ISS, getting into orbit, the Hohmann transfers and correction ones... Now I finally know! THANKS I LOVE SPACE I LOVE YOU TOO!
Well this video doesn't prove the earth ball. This is only animation. Why they don't show us real time video from lunch to docking without cuts... When i saw those 3 ACTonaunts int this small cabine... not a pleasant ride... It is start to ask questions... and they need to give us HD videos without cuts.... we live in 21st century and i think we (people) deserve it!
Dumb or not... you know... why people invent LIVE video streams? surely NASA has enough money to finance one HD LIVE stream which will last 2 days or more ??? or not....
***** I have no time to explain about the communication cause I'm no expert of it. Try to debate to a person who have a master in mass communication or satellite network and ask him about line coverage.
+Jernej Primon ISS live feed lasts max. 45 minutes. Jeranism made a bet of 1000 $ for who can show more than 1 hour live feed from the International Faked Station...
***** its all about getting in a lower orbit to catch up to the SS(space station) or a higher one to let it catch up to you. Once you are very close make your orbit roughly the same size (with your periapsis and apoapsis very close). Once you are within 1km (or so) you need to set the SS as your target then burn retrograde(the marker changes when you set the SS as a target) until you are 0.1m/s relative to the SS. This will stop the SS from pulling away at a weird angle, you then need to burn towards the target (purple closed marker) at say 30m/s until you are very close(50m), then burn retrograde until you are 0.1m/s or 0.0m/s relative to target then burn towards the SS again. Once you are very close you just need to line up the docking ports. Once they are lined up then accelerate at 0.2m/s towards the docking port.Then you'll have docked. (this is once method, there are more efficient ways of docking but this is the easiest that i know off)
if you want to do it the lazy way you can use the Mechjeb Mod which does the docking for you, or some other Mods which help with orienting the Spaceship to the Docking Port. But I suggest to learn to do it by hand first. BTW KSP is probably the best game if you want to understand Orbital Mechanics.
dunealex73 Best moment in KSP is that first time perfect docking and be a master after all the training. Worst moment is a month after not playing and you feel right back at 0. I've played over 1000 games and not a single mechanic in any game is as easy to forget as docking in KSP. Your brain feels exhausted as the adrenaline diminishes again from your blood. And it's just a virtual game with some metal and a gigantic black background.
You are just amazing brother, I absolutely love, respect, and admire what you do. Along with channels like Vsauce, Veritasium, Minutephysics, and others you have managed to attract a particular audience that might have considered science either boring, hard to understand, or simply unattractive. With these videos you have proven to them that science is not only important, it is also fun. I believe that It is very important that the young generation understands the basics of science!!!
Hi Destin, You're truly outstanding! I'm grateful for all you do with UA-cam and also for your work with our military! Thank you-God Bless and lots of love.
re watched now and noticed minor inconsistency. you draw how orbit change with most burns , but didn't draw orbit change with final burn, it didn't change much because scheme is not real scale, but I think it's important to show every burn is orbit change
still... when the "final burn" the person here mentioned starts, its only a few meters per second change, so it doesnt really change the orbit.... The reaction control systems also adjusts the orbit so that it stays the same as the one of the ISS all times while getting closer
Sective Everything that happens in KSP is pretty accurate. It only models gravity from a single body and it's perfectly uniform, so things operate much more smoothly there than they do in real life, but the general principles are the same.
Sective Kerbin is also denser then earth so the gravity is about the same, but in KSP it takes about 2 delta v km/s less to get into orbit. Other then that KSP is very accurate.
+SirNate Actually, it takes 4 km/s of dV less in KSP than IRL. KSP requires 4.5 km/s to reach orbit pre-1.0 and about 3.7 km/s post-1.0. It requires somewhere between 8 and 9 km/s IRL.
Around 2 years ago, I got the amazing opportunity to go see Scott interviewed in front of a live audience. I got to learn about his family life, growing up and time in the Navy, and I also got get his biography. At the end people were allowed to ask questions. Unfortunately I wasn't able to ask one but I really had an amazing time.
Thanks Destin , one of your best videos, love watching from over here in the UK. Your space episodes are so interesting and give us a great insight into this amazing subject. Every parent should watch your videos with their kids.
8:45: "2 pieces of metal going 17500 miles/hour" -> that is the speed relative to earth, why is it relevant? They are not going that fast relatively to each other..
I remember having to figure this out on my own in kerbal space program. Took me a while to figure out not to just burn straight to it and come up with something efficient like this. [
My mind has just been blown to how that works to dock to the station and now I can't build my own ISS in KSP and do great wonderful things lol. Thanks Destin that was awesome!!
The Russian Space Program is the definition of Perfection, and they should be recognized for it. They have sent Astronauts and supplies to the ISS all this time without incident.The Russians must build a new rocket for every flight, and no one builds them better imo. They never fail, and always meet their objective. A Russian ride to the ISS is the Safest mode of transportation ever developed by human beings.
Flying on Soyuz: driving several thousand miles in a '69 Corvette. Flying on Crew Dragon: driving a couple hundred miles in a C8. Amazing to see how far space travel has come.
They do, for experiments.But for enough oxygen production to sustain multiple humans you would need a lot of plants, which means lots of water and earth and energy for light. All in all is a oxygen bottle a lot less hassle and more important, much less mass that needs to be transported.
JackManic1984 Plants don't produce that much oxygen. The water, food, light and space requirements for the amount of plants required to oxygenate the ISS would be vastly heavier than a simple O2 scrubbing system.
The number of plants to support a single human would easily fill a standard house, and I'm being very conservative here. If you want 2 people on the station then you need to double the number of plants. Three people? Tripple, ect. If you took the ISS and gutted it, as in removed every piece of hardware, computers, controls science stuff, everything and just filled it with plants, there still would not be enough to keep a single person alive.
One thing I feel needs to be corrected. The orbital velocity on circular orbits reduces as the radius of the orbit increases. That means that not only does a ship on higher orbit lag behind a ship on lower orbit because it must cover a greater distance, it also actually travels at slower orbital velocity. This is because the gravitational pull - centripetal force that keeps the spacecraft on the circular orbit - is inversely proportional to the square of radius, and that simply means you don't need to go quite as fast to follow Earth's curvature as you're falling through space. Here's a nice applet that lets you experiment with different altitudes for circular orbits: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/orbv3.html But the core idea of synchronizing orbits was portrayed well enough, I guess - if you need to catch up to your target, you need to slow down (burn retrograde) to drop to a lower orbit, where you'll be traveling faster... and if you need to allow your target to catch up with you, you must first go away from the target (prograde burn) to lift yourself to higher orbit which will allow you to orbit the Earth slower than your target. Although, before setting up an intersect and rendezvous, you'd have to make sure that the orbits also have the correct inclination - which means they must orbit Earth in the same reference plane. This is actually why launch windows exist - the orbit of the target (ISS in this case) must be over the launch site, or close enough that the launch vehicle will be able to match the planes during ascent or the orbital burns.
+Jernej Primon Oh wow you should be a comedian. What are you even doing commenting here? Shouldn't you be brainwashing yourself more on flat Earth garbage?
Matthew Ray I find that people who are interested in space exploration are less inclined to squabble over bits of the Pale Blue Dot. You can't see borders from space.
Can you do a video on the flat earth theory. Maybe build a rocket that can show the curve of the earth. It sounds stupid but a lot of people are starting to think the earth is flat and I think that a simple video showing them would change their minds.
The Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano first circumnavigated the world by sea in 1519-1522, then Drake did it again in 1577-1580, and countless people have done it since by sea, by air, by space travel. It was proved over and over again by all of these and many more since. Why on earth anyone needs it to be proved again, or worse don't even believe it in the first place is beyond me.
Great to see this series taking off!
WOW its really great to see your comment and i wonder why you dont post video lately i love crh too
NightHawkInLight Thanks Ben! Oh... Taking off. I see what you did there.
no prob
I’m 5 years late🤣
Pun intended
It is mind blowing that something the Soviets built in the 60's is so amazingly safe and well designed, that it is still in use 50+ years later...
Its not mind blowing, its bullshit!
@Gmail X Man you're so right, I can't believe I almost forgot that time in the 1950's when the soviets put a satellite into geostationary orbit and returned the Soyuz rocket, boosters and all, back to earth in one piece and re-furbished it to fly again. How silly of me.
what a idiot
Lol you gotta be joking.
The space station is absolutely useless and those "astronauts" aren't really in space.
How do people still fall for this nonsense
@@devilisahomo wait where are they actually at?
"It's a fancy stick, but it's a stick."
+Patrick Ford I want a fancy space stick for Christmas.
God bless you crazy Russians and your fancy science sticks
You crazy ! not russian !
@@volya7777 r/whoosh
Classic ugly but reliable Russian tech
America: the astronauts can't reach the control panel? Ok, time for a complete redesign that will take years and millions of dollars! Russia: give the man a stick.
LOL
a FANCY stick
Just like the Americans... They wanted a pen that worked in space without all the ink leaking out... they invented the biro after so much hard work... COULD HAVE USED A PENCIL
@@tankigamingwithrichardrock9930 The Graphite present in the pencils was prone to cause a disturbance in the electrical conduction of the intricately designed systems.
The graphite in the pencils had a tendency to cause explosions or a fire due to the graphite particles.
There was also a risk of fire due to the wood or wood particles which is used in these pencils.
The result of these records which were maintained could be easily manipulated and were shoddy in appearance , thus , they were smeared in appearance and were not permanent.
Steve Mc. Gregory Color pencils do not use graphite. The mechanical pencil does not use wood.
Kerbal Space Program thought me all this stuff.
here here!
lol i just comment that
IT obviously didn't teach you how to spell.
+Jason Joslin You are right sir it does not teach that
same
watching this made me intimidated but amazed at the same time
Thirdy Summer When you think about what Scott's about to actually do, it's pretty amazing. He's a critical piece to the Mars puzzle.
SmarterEveryDay how exactly do they pin point the co-ordinates in the space ?
(On earth we can use by help of lang and latitudes and distance as xyz... how about in space ?)
Giri io I don't know for sure but I'm pretty sure it's all about reference points. Like if I wanted earth to be the reference point I'd take the center of earth to be 0, then if I wanted we can say that going relative north is positive Z, and south negative Z, after that though, X and Y planes can be tricky since the earth is moving and spinning in space, so I think what they do is measure distance instead, so you're first coordinate would be your Z and distance, and your second would use the destination as another reference and you'll have a Z relative to it and a distance to it as well.
Again I don't really know I am but guessing, someone will surely answer you about it soon and correct me though.
yup got your point :) that's in earth case where we take the center of the earth as reference but how do we measure it for outerspace objects ? for example here ISS and rocket
which one should be taken as reference and how do the other know these details
it's hard to assume when things are relative :D and im just curious :) hope someone can enlighten me
Giri io Its a combination of using relative distance, velocity, translation, and orientation between the two targets. You don't track a location, you track the target, and find the relative differences between your target, and you. Hope that helps!
HOW TO FLY A SPACESHIP TO THE SPACE STATION!
Commander Scott Kelly is about to leave earth, yet he took some of his precious time to meet with us IN A SOYUZ CAPSULE. I was honored to spend a few moments with both him and Commander Wiseman. I would greatly appreciate it if you guys would show him we are thankful by following him on twitter and instagram. instagram.com/stationcdrkelly/
twitter.com/stationcdrkelly The more response this video generates, I'm hoping the higher likleyhood I'm able to do have more opportunities to spend time with these awesome explorers. I would love nothing more than for an opportunity to bring you more videos like this and the growth of Scott's social media (Twitter/Instagram) will probably be NASA's measure of how successful working with Smarter Every Day is! Also share!
Orbital Mechanics made easy.. I love it! Keep up the awesome work man! You are one of my role models!
SmarterEveryDay you should try playing Kerbal Space Program, its on steam.
LOVE THIS SERIES THANK YOU!
Love this one! Awesomeness!
where is Jeb, man?
Now I have a new method of docking I can use in KSP :3
+SpydreX Official I was having difficulties getting 2 ships close enough to eachother to dock, after this I know exactly what to do :)
+SpydreX Official hahaha exactly what I was thinking!!
+SpydreX Official its not that hard
+michael Papadopoulos this makes it so much easier, though.
get into a circular orbit. hohmann transfer until the orbits are similar. once you get a good CPA, point-and-burn as you say.
How else were you doing it?? 😂😂
It’s so cool and fascinating to see them talk casually about leaving earth and going to space. Like a normal conversation.
You just showed 1.3 million people (so far) how rocket science is actually understandable, and that even an astronaut thought getting to the iss was just a straight shot. Literally this is amazing I am so grateful to be alive to see this
I sorta knew all of that… Kerbal Space Program FTW :D
KSP taught me this too XD
yup even more complex stuff I just dont know what its called
KSP you are awesome
Been there, done that #KSP
Luca Morgenstern yeah.. i destroyed my iss like 3 times trying to dock with it and had to replace my save with a backup and keep trying...
TheUselessStoner dude, F5 for safety! really, you can press F5 to create a quicksafe, like a checkpoint of sorts. then you press and hold F9 to reload the last one or alt+F9 to choose one... (c) DasValdez
Thank you so much! One of the best videos I've seen on this channel yet :D
makraiz Then Share it!
SmarterEveryDay thanks for such an awesome video i didn't even imagine how awesome docking at the iss was.... so you know id the space shuttle used the same procedure?
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makraiz that is a profile pic of jean luc picard
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Destin, you should check out a game called Kerbal Space Program. I bet you'd really get a kick out of building your own space ship and trying to land on other planets. The physics in that game is truly remarkable.
Except for drag and not simulating multy body gravity
gre kiki It's still early access! These things can be added yet.
gre kiki Simulating real gravity is, I would think, quite tricky. When they pull it off, and you can start using Lagrangian points, it'll be awesome.
gre kiki They're updating the atmospheric model in the next update, which will be version 1.0. Multi-body physics are cool, but not possible with the way KSP is set up. In KSP, the planets are all on rails. If you add multi-body physics, you could start pushing moons and planets around. Don't forget that the actual gameplay would get super complex and probably not fun for 50-70% of the current fans.
Patched conics is simplistic, but we were able to land on the moon with it, so I think it's good enough for a casual game like KSP.
And if you use FAR it helps
Thanks for clearing up my KSP docking issues. It makes sense now.
A year and a half ago I thought that rockets launched straight up and knew absolutely nothing about spaceflight. Videos like this and certain friends sparked my curiosity and I fell eventually into the fascinating rabbit hole of space travel. So much so that I just started my first year of aerospace engineering. Thanks Destin
Stick with it mate. I am so regretful that I wasn't exposed to this stuff early enough for it to affect the course of my career.
You're coming into a fascinating field at a very exciting time. Good luck!
Hehehe; that moment when you watch something like this and you think "he; I do that all the time in Kerbal Space program and it works exactly like that" :)
That's one great example how games are not "just games" but very powerful learning tool, because of that game I learned more about space and "rocket" science then I did in all years of my education.
So, to all space junkies, go and check out "Kerbal Space Program"
i was surprised when i figured how to do this out on my own with little to no outside help, for that mission where you have to rescue the kerbal in orbit.
yea but most kerbal players only do one hohmann transfer and a little bit of correction
ashley beaumont No doubt but the principle is the same.
Pharozos it is but in less burns
That was one of my favorite moments when I realized I understood the concept already from having played Kerbal. So cool!
This reminds me of the fear and exhilarating fun of my first docking in KSP.
ComandanteJ u don't have the option to revert flight though xD .. jebediah kerman is gon for good lol
WOW
COOL
AWESOME
AMAZING
This is the best channel on UA-cam. Love the video! I'm genuinely smarter today. Job well done!
As some one who works at the Joint Space Operations Center, I have
greatly enjoyed your videos on the ISS! It's really great to see some
other incite into the work this country does for space exploration. Keep
up the great work!
In Soviet Russia we use highly engineered wooden stick to push highly engineered switches. Russian Science!
Read in thickest Russian accent possible
Works
what about the pencil story
lukas Bolle both sides ended up make pens as well as the United States also used pencils for a while. The reason we spent a bunch of money on a space pen is that pencil shavings get everywhere and can get behind stuff and cause issues
I think the most amazing part of this is the fact that we are even sending people to space. Like, think about it. We've been on this rock that we call Earth for, an uninterrupted, 3 billion years as some life-form or another. That in the last 60 years we've developed systems to keep people alive to leave Earth and even give us the technology to think about visiting other planets is absolutely mind-blowing. For all the flak that they get, humans are sometimes pretty okay.
KSP has made all this so trivial for many. Love it how the mechanics and the techniques work alike.
Also love it that KSP is one of the few games you can learn to master using actual Wikipedia articles as a manual.
The pinnacle of science is.. a stick? Mindblown!
Lord Rexasaur but its a fancy stick.
hardwirecars Haha yes totally the best part of the video when he says quietly "It's a fancy stick".
The pinnacle of Soviet science - they took the Einstein's "everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" very seriously. Best seen in Soviet weapons.
as we say in Russia - everything must be made for fool... 'cause in extreme situations, people tend to get lost and make lots of mistakes. and, of course, the simplest design is always the most reliable.
SpaceBalls74 That is code for, "It's a $10,000 NASA stick."
I am sooooo jealous! My daughter and hubby think I'm too obsessed with Scott Kelly's almost-year-long mission because I have been following it since the beginning and constantly wait for the ISS to pass so I can just watch in awe and wonder what it's like. They can tell us what they experience, but it just isn't the same as experiencing it yourself. AND you got to sit with him on the SOYUZ!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!! Love ur stuff! Thanks for all the information you put out there. We love it!
Who else is here the day Reid Wiseman was announced as commander for Artemis II?? So pumped for Reid!!
What a brilliant video! Probably one of the best I've seen on UA-cam. Real Spaceman, Russian rockets, inteviews, candid, learning, just perfect.
Sam Cornwell I actually feel bad for skipping the ad at the start.
+Sam Cornwell Fancy seeing you here.
i love how scott kelly is already back... man time goes fast
Wow, I've been playing too much Kerbal Space Program. You were introducing Scott Kelley, but my brain heard "Scott--" and immediately thought you were gonna say "US astronaut Scott Manley"
LydianLights same
nice
He's come a long way from KSP videos. :)
I love how you explain stuff. When the other people explain it it sounds complicated, but hen when you explain it, it is so much clearer
You deserve more than you get, I didn't know the whole concept of docking with the ISS, getting into orbit, the Hohmann transfers and correction ones... Now I finally know! THANKS I LOVE SPACE I LOVE YOU TOO!
And people still believe flat earth
No still thinking but thinking again make ball earthers flat earhers
Well this video doesn't prove the earth ball. This is only animation. Why they don't show us real time video from lunch to docking without cuts...
When i saw those 3 ACTonaunts int this small cabine... not a pleasant ride...
It is start to ask questions... and they need to give us HD videos without cuts.... we live in 21st century and i think we (people) deserve it!
Dumb or not... you know... why people invent LIVE video streams? surely NASA has enough money to finance one HD LIVE stream which will last 2 days or more ??? or not....
***** I have no time to explain about the communication cause I'm no expert of it. Try to debate to a person who have a master in mass communication or satellite network and ask him about line coverage.
+Jernej Primon ISS live feed lasts max. 45 minutes. Jeranism made a bet of 1000 $ for who can show more than 1 hour live feed from the International Faked Station...
Just wonderful. I never knew there was so much involved in a simple space flight!
People who play Kerbal Space Proram:
I am something of a rocket scientist myself.
Wowwww Scott Kelly himself!!!! Such a great video! Thank you Destin
Destin, you make my skin tingle every single video. So inspiring, and makes me proud to be human. Thanks! Keep it up.
Best youtube channel, hands down.
Seriously, this video is going to help me in kerbal space program so much.
and i scroll down and the comments are all the same XD
Rubensteezy h
I tried docking in Kerbal Space Program and it is f***ing impossible.
Never give up m8! Your day will come when you eyeball your dockings like you never did something else! But it´s indeed painful to get there...
***** It's pretty easy when you have enough practice. And use your navball and it's target marker.
***** its all about getting in a lower orbit to catch up to the SS(space station) or a higher one to let it catch up to you. Once you are very close make your orbit roughly the same size (with your periapsis and apoapsis very close). Once you are within 1km (or so) you need to set the SS as your target then burn retrograde(the marker changes when you set the SS as a target) until you are 0.1m/s relative to the SS. This will stop the SS from pulling away at a weird angle, you then need to burn towards the target (purple closed marker) at say 30m/s until you are very close(50m), then burn retrograde until you are 0.1m/s or 0.0m/s relative to target then burn towards the SS again. Once you are very close you just need to line up the docking ports. Once they are lined up then accelerate at 0.2m/s towards the docking port.Then you'll have docked. (this is once method, there are more efficient ways of docking but this is the easiest that i know off)
if you want to do it the lazy way you can use the Mechjeb Mod which does the docking for you, or some other Mods which help with orienting the Spaceship to the Docking Port. But I suggest to learn to do it by hand first. BTW KSP is probably the best game if you want to understand Orbital Mechanics.
dunealex73 Best moment in KSP is that first time perfect docking and be a master after all the training. Worst moment is a month after not playing and you feel right back at 0. I've played over 1000 games and not a single mechanic in any game is as easy to forget as docking in KSP. Your brain feels exhausted as the adrenaline diminishes again from your blood. And it's just a virtual game with some metal and a gigantic black background.
You are just amazing brother, I absolutely love, respect, and admire what you do. Along with channels like Vsauce, Veritasium, Minutephysics, and others you have managed to attract a particular audience that might have considered science either boring, hard to understand, or simply unattractive. With these videos you have proven to them that science is not only important, it is also fun. I believe that It is very important that the young generation understands the basics of science!!!
I LOVED IT when he said 'LETS TALK ABOUT IT' 5:41
Basic KSP Tutorial :D
4:08 that mathematical formula kills me softly ☺
Playing Kerbal Space Program definitely helps to understand this stuff too.
Hi Destin, You're truly outstanding! I'm grateful for all you do with UA-cam and also for your work with our military! Thank you-God Bless and lots of love.
Wow. That's seriously amazing. I honestly had no clue how they docked. Must be crazy to see the iss come into view right behind you. great video!!
In Ksp, i often managed to fly directly up and chase up with my spacestation within a half orbit or less :)
yes you can be sure of that xD
+Conex Xenon me too
Who else already knew this from just playing ksp? (Kerbal space program)
+blurred It's accurate compared to what?
Me lol
+bblurre - "Game?!!"
KSP is life!
*****
Probably youthful indiscretion.
I'm glad I was able to come along at the right time and set you on the right path in life.
XD
actually
Was gonna say... This is going to become a Kerbal Space Program tutorial channel soon. ;)
Okay these type of videos I absolutely love now! It just feels more personal than most of the other's out there.
Holy you're so lucky to talk to these guys! I've been following Kelly's mission since day 1... very jealous you got to sit in a Soyuz sim. with him!
re watched now and noticed minor inconsistency. you draw how orbit change with most burns , but didn't draw orbit change with final burn, it didn't change much because scheme is not real scale, but I think it's important to show every burn is orbit change
ur wrong man...
+LucaBumble you do realize even reaction control systems (which is just compressed gas) changes orbits?
yep
+LucaBumble okay just not sure what your response to the comment meant
still... when the "final burn" the person here mentioned starts, its
only a few meters per second change, so it doesnt really change the
orbit....
The reaction control systems also adjusts the orbit so that it stays the same as the one of the ISS all times while getting closer
So Kerbal Space Program is actually kinda accurate? Kerbin is a lot smaller than Earth but the mechanics seem to be the same.
Sective Everything that happens in KSP is pretty accurate. It only models gravity from a single body and it's perfectly uniform, so things operate much more smoothly there than they do in real life, but the general principles are the same.
Sective Kerbin is also denser then earth so the gravity is about the same, but in KSP it takes about 2 delta v km/s less to get into orbit. Other then that KSP is very accurate.
+SirNate Actually, it takes 4 km/s of dV less in KSP than IRL. KSP requires 4.5 km/s to reach orbit pre-1.0 and about 3.7 km/s post-1.0. It requires somewhere between 8 and 9 km/s IRL.
wasmic5z Ok, thanks, my bad, I thought it only took around 6.2-6.5k irl. Not sure where I saw that.
+SirNate I hope that they make an official gamemode to play in our Sol system.
I just love the KSP comments here xD
all i wanted to say is already somewhere in there. noice
Around 2 years ago, I got the amazing opportunity to go see Scott interviewed in front of a live audience. I got to learn about his family life, growing up and time in the Navy, and I also got get his biography. At the end people were allowed to ask questions. Unfortunately I wasn't able to ask one but I really had an amazing time.
Thanks Destin , one of your best videos, love watching from over here in the UK. Your space episodes are so interesting and give us a great insight into this amazing subject. Every parent should watch your videos with their kids.
If you have ever played KSP you know exactly what that video was all about. Thanks for the great video anyways!
+Ben Frosst thats exactly how i rendevouz and dock on ksp. I use the same principle to get to other planets but it takes much fuel
8:45: "2 pieces of metal going 17500 miles/hour" -> that is the speed relative to earth, why is it relevant? They are not going that fast relatively to each other..
Joris l
It's just to put the whole thing into perspective
Adjoint Fork no, it's still not relevant
"It's a fancy stick, but it's still a stick" Yes.
Awesome Video Destin! These are super cool and so exciting to watch! Keep making more videos like these sir! *Thumbs Up Up and Away!*
Dude, I'm about to throw my tv in the garbage and just watch your videos for ever. So much to learn, in such cool way. thanks man!
play kerbal space program and wing it
yeah ksp teaches you all of this
BRUH u just replyed to urself
steven hernandez I know...
ok
Just keep reverting until you make it
6:14 Spaceagency people be like: When we send a Russian and a Murcan we need a german to make it complete and to do the diplomatik stuff
Had to go back and make sure I saw the *boop* and that i didn't imagine it XD
These videos are some of the best I've seen.
Thank you Destin, for all the work you do for these videos. I love learning new things every day. 💌
Easy kerbal space program kids
I’m 16 and want to buy KSP my parents refuse to buy it even though it costs less than GTA 5 at release.
@@wyattb3138 thats how parent work for ya
#get-Destin-into-space
Someone needs to start a go fund me :)
Do it To it
HoldOnToYourTails I would donate
Use Kickstarter
I remember having to figure this out on my own in kerbal space program. Took me a while to figure out not to just burn straight to it and come up with something efficient like this.
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Destin, love your channel. Keep up the great work!
My mind has just been blown to how that works to dock to the station and now I can't build my own ISS in KSP and do great wonderful things lol. Thanks Destin that was awesome!!
The Russian Space Program is the definition of Perfection, and they should be recognized for it.
They have sent Astronauts and supplies to the ISS all this time without incident.The Russians must build a new rocket for every flight, and no one builds them better imo. They never fail, and always meet their objective.
A Russian ride to the ISS is the Safest mode of transportation ever developed by human beings.
MyworstEnemy I agree, but "without incident" is untrue, as the commenter above shows.
In the past, their rockets blew up all the time
MyworstEnemy Ehhhh.....
Recently from Russian aerospace...
THINK about it.....They NEVER study any living thing......
NO ANIMALS , NO PLANTS,
NO EXPERIMENTS.......
Just stupid hygiene and music videos...
so what if he pushes the wrong button with a stick? It seems very error prone.
Yeah, that does seem oddly, un-technical. "That seat is too far back to reach." ".... Give that guy a stick. Problem solved!"
he did say its a "fancy" stick, so its probably designed so that you don't miss at least that's my guess
russian engineering?
It is made of toothpicks. Space grade toothpicks, mind you.
*cough* small landing legs *cough*
wow, this is exactly how I do it in KSP
This video actually taught me a lot all those years ago! Im forever grateful for your teachings Destin! :)
I always check the scriptures you put at the end... love them...
"Matt Lowne has entered the chat"
Who else plays kerbal space program an already knew all this?
me
Me
kerbal has no so many useful calculations. it's very boring to play in KSP.
nRADRUS I thought so too, before I figured out how to dock things with each other.
"yeah its a fancy stick, but its just a stick"
That was the single best explanation of orbital mechanics I've ever seen. Thank you! I know what a Hohmann transfer orbit is!!
Flying on Soyuz: driving several thousand miles in a '69 Corvette.
Flying on Crew Dragon: driving a couple hundred miles in a C8.
Amazing to see how far space travel has come.
I've always wondered why they didn't bring plants on spaceships? Wouldn't that be a good source of oxygen?
They do, for experiments.But for enough oxygen production to sustain multiple humans you would need a lot of plants, which means lots of water and earth and energy for light. All in all is a oxygen bottle a lot less hassle and more important, much less mass that needs to be transported.
JackManic1984 If you bring too many plants on, you will get a too high of an oxygen content in the capsule/station which can be toxic to humans.
JackManic1984 May have to fact check me on that.
JackManic1984 Plants don't produce that much oxygen. The water, food, light and space requirements for the amount of plants required to oxygenate the ISS would be vastly heavier than a simple O2 scrubbing system.
The number of plants to support a single human would easily fill a standard house, and I'm being very conservative here. If you want 2 people on the station then you need to double the number of plants. Three people? Tripple, ect. If you took the ISS and gutted it, as in removed every piece of hardware, computers, controls science stuff, everything and just filled it with plants, there still would not be enough to keep a single person alive.
One thing I feel needs to be corrected. The orbital velocity on circular orbits reduces as the radius of the orbit increases. That means that not only does a ship on higher orbit lag behind a ship on lower orbit because it must cover a greater distance, it also actually travels at slower orbital velocity.
This is because the gravitational pull - centripetal force that keeps the spacecraft on the circular orbit - is inversely proportional to the square of radius, and that simply means you don't need to go quite as fast to follow Earth's curvature as you're falling through space.
Here's a nice applet that lets you experiment with different altitudes for circular orbits: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/orbv3.html
But the core idea of synchronizing orbits was portrayed well enough, I guess - if you need to catch up to your target, you need to slow down (burn retrograde) to drop to a lower orbit, where you'll be traveling faster... and if you need to allow your target to catch up with you, you must first go away from the target (prograde burn) to lift yourself to higher orbit which will allow you to orbit the Earth slower than your target.
Although, before setting up an intersect and rendezvous, you'd have to make sure that the orbits also have the correct inclination - which means they must orbit Earth in the same reference plane. This is actually why launch windows exist - the orbit of the target (ISS in this case) must be over the launch site, or close enough that the launch vehicle will be able to match the planes during ascent or the orbital burns.
Whose here after demo 2??
This is so amazing to learn about, I love space!
Thank you so much for this and all the other videos of you. I really like your work here on youtube!
I want to be an astronaut.
viperdan1234 Me too.
Destin You'll be an astronaut... Trust me...
You mean actonaunt... :)
+Jernej Primon Oh wow you should be a comedian. What are you even doing commenting here? Shouldn't you be brainwashing yourself more on flat Earth garbage?
Sigma Octantis Way to overreact
"*boop*" at 8:48 for 1 frame. It took me at least 2 minutes to get it paused at that frame XD
The Flagged Dragon Thats more than one frame and you can read it even at normal speed
@@marcelldavis8513 You can pause YT videos somewhere near the intended point and then go forward and reverse, frame by frame, with the ">" and "
@@coriscotupi THANK YOU for that tip. that would have helped me out a lot had known it before.
It's kerbal space program science.
This is awesome, I too thought we flew straight into it for many years. These people are top notch. Outstanding work
Great video, Destin! It really got me excited about the space program again! Thank you!
I was expecting to see some Russian hate on here from American/pro-American types you see all over youtube, was pleasantly surprised
Matthew Ray those haters are way too dumb to watch this kind of videos, hehe (just like their russian counterparts. russian here, btw)
I think we are in the intelligent part of youtube here. So we should be save from that stuff ;)
Matthew Ray I was expecting to see some American hate on here from
Russian/anti-American types you see all over youtube, was pleasantly
surprised
Matthew Ray I find that people who are interested in space exploration are less inclined to squabble over bits of the Pale Blue Dot. You can't see borders from space.
so how do you controll the capsule while you're flying at thousands of mph?
*_a stick_*
(it's just a joke, don't start acting up)
I thought iss was in school suspension!?!?!?!?!
Bruh...
ByteMe lol!!!!!
I love you destin. Thankyou for becoming a youtuber.
Great video! One of my favorites yet. Love your job. Way to go!
Who’s here after the Crew Dragon launch?
Can you do a video on the flat earth theory. Maybe build a rocket that can show the curve of the earth. It sounds stupid but a lot of people are starting to think the earth is flat and I think that a simple video showing them would change their minds.
No video would change their minds, they'll call it fake. It's best to let it go, forget about them and just focus on yourself :)
They failed the intelligence test, there's not much we can do about it.
It's probably just humans slowly going back to stone age.
The Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano first circumnavigated the world by sea in 1519-1522, then Drake did it again in 1577-1580, and countless people have done it since by sea, by air, by space travel. It was proved over and over again by all of these and many more since. Why on earth anyone needs it to be proved again, or worse don't even believe it in the first place is beyond me.
63rdwho Right!!! My sister thinks the earth is flat. And that there is a invisible dome that surrounds us. It's some crazy people stuff!!!
kerbal space program vibes
Wow, Thank you very much. I was wondering about this just the other day.
You my good Sir have just put my mind at ease.
Well done.
Love this. Thank you for doing this series.