- [Tim] Dear Matt Lowne.
I've a little problem, you see, I asked my Kerbal
engineers to launch a Saturn V to the moon.
Only problem is... I didn't really intend for them
to take the entire thing to the moon.
Now I've got some stranded Kerbals.
So I'm not sure if the Blunderbirds are still a thing or not
but, if you wouldn't mind helping a friend out here.
That'd be great.
- [Man] 3, 2, 1... Liftoff.
(electronic music)
- [Man 2] That's one small step for man.
- [Tim] Welcome to Kerbal Space Program.
Like I always say, this is 50% rocket builder,
50% rocket simulator,
4000.16% explosion factory.
So what this is, this was a collaboration
with a fellow YouTuber named Matt Lowne.
Matt Lowne is easily one of my favorite YouTubers.
He does this series called Blunderbirds,
which is where he takes other peoples
messed up missions in Kerbal Space Program.
So say someone crashes on the moon or something.
They'll reach out to him on Twitter or Reddit or something,
then they'll say "Hey, can you come rescue my stuff?"
They'll send him their save files, and then he takes that
save file, uploads it to Kerbal Space Program,
goes and rescues their mission.
It's a hilarious series, he's really entertaining.
So definitely check that out.
But this was a 3 1/2 hour livestream of me building a
Saturn V, and like the intro says, launching it to the moon.
This was with my Patreons in a livestream.
So we're gonna pop back and forth between me talking about
what I did and showing you the livestream of me doing it.
You'll see I'm talking to people
and it might be a little confusing.
Nevertheless I built a full blown Saturn V first off.
Really overly detailed considering I wasn't going to be
using any of the stuff except for these
five engines at the bottom.
And then I spent way too much time
building the crawler portion.
Which I don't know if you're familiar with.
NASA had the crawler that takes the vehicles from the
vehicle assembly building out to the launch pad
at a blistering pace of 1.6 kilometers an hour.
Which is 1 mile an hour for us metrically impaired.
This versions quite a bit faster,
but as you might see here in a second,
maybe speed always isn't a good idea when you have
a 100 meter tall vehicle sitting on top.
So we're gonna pop back into the original
3 1/2 hour livestream.
Which I have linked now below if you wanna watch
that entire thing for some reason.
You can watch it, it's unlisted.
You're gonna see me kinda talking in and out,
and we'll fast forward.
Let's see how I did.
Aim camera.
Control from here.
Stability Assist on, we're gonna also turn on
the slow wheels, they're like slow control mode.
Nice and gentle.
This is working out great now.
I don't know why you guys were all so nervous.
Oh, we may have some broken wheels.
Confirmed. Broken wheels confirmed.
Several broken wheels.
Okay, it might be time for plan B.
(drumbeat)
(rocket thrusting)
There we go.
I don't know why NASA didn't do this, if I'm being honest,
I feel like this is a lot more efficient way
to get your vehicle out to the launch pad.
Especially when you're in a space race
against the Soviet Union.
Don't you wanna just get there ASAP?
Perfect!
Just (laughs) exactly where we wanted this.
I (gasps) actually can't believe that survived.
Oh my gosh, okay, were taking some pictures of this thing.
This is quite fantastic.
This we need to put up on our slash Kerbal for sure.
Alright, but here is where we went from
it's all fun and games into just plain utterly ridiculous,
because now we try to get that entire thing out to the moon.
Which requires
a very unhealthy amount of boosters.
So, it was time we just kept building this thing to be
more and more and more absurd.
Until we had enough power to not only lift
all of this stuff, but also to get it out to the moon.
And this is about kind...
This is the definition of Kerbal Space Program
to me right here.
Let's see how this did.
From the heart
of Kerbal Space Center,
comes a vehicle
with the brain power of Steve Jobs,
the heart of Allen Goldspeen
who no one knows, I made him up.
And also the liver of John Denver,
comes a vehicle with
more love in its life
than you could ever find,
unless you don't even know where it is.
It's called the Moon Dad,
and it's here for everyone, unless you don't like it,
then it's not here for you.
It's here for everyone else though.
I hope you enjoy this.
Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls. It is time
to launch Moon Dad!
Okay, here we go.
(laughs)all fingers and all toes crossed out there internet.
Here we go.
3 2 1 hip hip.
And wait.
(laughs)
(rocket blasting)
And we have liftoff.
(laughing)
Oh yes.
(rocket blasting) Yes!
Okay, as much as I love watching something
in about 1 frame per second,
we definitely need to speed this up because
this took way, way too long.
But the big key here was since this had such
a terribly un-aerodynamic surface.
Like the crawler was just a giant,
flat sheet of metal basically.
I wanted to make sure we got plenty high before we began
to pitch over into our gravity turn.
Normally you wanted to start your gravity turn
a lot earlier, but you'll see I waited until
well after 10,000 meters to slowly pitch over.
I was just nervous that this would be hard to control.
So I wanted to get it out of most the atmosphere
before we even began to mess with it at all.
And you can see it actually ended up
working out pretty well.
I surprisingly made it.
It worked out really smoothly and now you're gonna notice
I actually decided to spin the entire vehicle.
In order to have a clean separation of those outer boosters,
since I didn't use any sepratrons or anything so...
(laughs)
3 2 1 hip hip.
Oh yeah!
Yeah!
Now we should start to eventually get some (laughing)
some frames per second back.
Look at that!
Alright, and now that we have this thing pretty much
on it's way into orbit.
We just finished up a burn.
It kicked itself and did a circularization burn
slash targeted the moon and did our maneuver
all at once here on this.
Just to make it nice and easy.
Then we turned and pointed at our maneuver node,
and did a nice little burn.
And there is our trans lunar injection.
We are on our way to the moon!
And obviously made it out no problem.
Now this thing took forever to flip over so,
I use the engine gimbals a lot to help maneuver
because I forgot to put some really massive RCS thrusters
at the base, or the top.
So we really only had a tiny bit of RCS at the top
and the engines to gimbal with.
But this is the exciting part!
Awe let's tune in here.
I'm wanna find a nice flat spot to land.
I think this rocker cell looks pretty flat,
so let's do that.
Ditching the stage.
Lighting up some new engines.
I'm gonna turn two of these off,
so we have a little more range in our throttle-ability,
cause this is way too much thrust now.
But we wanna go strafing a little bit this way
so we don't land on top of that booster.
We're aiming for that rock.
Nice and slow.
Nice and slow for the very first time.
(rocket booster blasting)
I'm gonna go right over there just
tap it in.
Alright, this is looking nice.
This is looking nice!
Look at this, I think it's a nice flat area to
safely land ourselves.
I'm really feeling confident.
Like I'm wearing new shoes.
Really feel like I've got the zest!
Okay, so if I want to I need a little bit more,
cause I'm almost at like minimum throttle.
I'm actually gonna kill one more engine.
But we're still symmetrical.
There we go, now I've got a little more
precise throttle control.
(Electronic music)
Gonna try and rotate it so we are facing downhill.
I think this is about downhill here.
That's why it's also nice to have two engines going.
Cause they can provide a lot of roll authority.
Oh oh, nope, nope, nope.
Nope, nope, nope.
Just like this.
Nice and easy.
On the moon.
No big deal.
Just like we wanted.
Turn on those breaks.
Try and stop.
Please, please, please.
(electronic music)
We did it?
We did it!
We're stopped.
We time warped, we did it, we actually did it!
Look at this, ladies and gentlemen!
A Saturn V!
Oh wow!
Now that's what I'm talking about.
We can dink around for a little bit.
If anyone knows how to find the arch,
I'm down to go take it to the arch.
I don't know how you do that though.
Well and with a little bit of help from Google
and a lot of help from the Patreon supporters
who are watching me do this live,
we realized I'm actually quite close to the arch
which is an Easter egg on the moon
that the Kerbal engineers put in.
I had actually never visited any of the Easter eggs.
There's Easter eggs all over the solar system
in Kerbal Space Program,
and this was the very first time I had ever
actually been to the arch.
I had seen pictures of it and stuff.
I had seen people go to it before,
but I personally had never done it,
and it was a lot of fun actually.
Of course, at this point I had gotten so far along.
I took it nice and easy and gently touched down there
in the moon, and I was quite excited.
It was of course sliding around like it always does.
So I had to kind of crawl it.
I wanted it to be nice and centered for the picture.
And that's, ladies and gentlemen,
how we ended up with a fully laden Saturn V
on the surface of the moon with the crawler and everything.
I had a ton of fun doing this.
If you like watching Kerbal Space Program, I'll do some.
If you don't like watching me play Kerbal,
don't click on it.
I'm going to continue to do a few Kerbal streams
every now and then.
And luckily Matt Lowne already has a response video
using his Blunderbirds to go and rescue
my Saturn V and my crew.
It is awesome.
I've got a link in the description,
and a card up here, so definitely check that video out.
Meanwhile I owe a huge thanks to my Patreon supporters
who watched me do this live.
That was part of the exclusive live streams.
If you wanna join in some of these exclusive live streams,
just head on over to Patreon.com/EverdayAstronaut.
Also, all the music in the background of this video,
is original music.
So if you wanna hear my first album
it's called Maximum Aerodynamic Pressure.
It's available everywhere.
On iTunes, Spotify, Google Music, Amazon, all that stuff.
It's also available as a playlist right here on YouTube.
So if you wanna check that out you can check it out here,
or you can just go to EverydayAstronaut.com/music
for easy links to anywhere it's available.
But that's gonna do it for me,
I'm Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut,
bringing space down to earth for everyday people.
(electronic music)