How Many Things Are Wrong With This 'Space Shuttle' Image 

Scott: “Lets compare it to the actual space shuttle Columbia.” *Shows picture of Discovery*

even the boosters have boosters. seems legit

"But then again Kerbal Space Program did allow me to accidentally fly a nuclear submarine into space." If one phrase encapsulated KSP, this is it.

Oh yeah why didn’t we think of strapping two Soyuz rockets to the shuttle carry twice the people

Ah yes, R-7’s as side boosters. Sounds legit

"how many things are wrong with this picture"? All of the things. All of them are wrong.

As a thumbnail it does get your attention. Mission accomplished.

"There's no central core" *Comrade Dyatlov has entered the chat*

Nobody seems to have mentioned that the elevons are definitely absent.

When your graphic artist gets paid $50 to make an image as quickly as possible, they end up frantically google searching “rocket parts” and indiscriminately pasting them together in Blender

I first read it as “A shuttle load full of whiskey...” 😂

4:39 at this point the crew wished they still had those ejection seats

They clearly should’ve put Saturn Vs on the sides instead

Oh man I lost it when the shuttles as booster stages for a soyuz came up!

The last one didn't end to a deadly lithobreaking moment, so let me call that a succes!

Ah, that emergency shuttle water landing takes me back.

That was a pretty excellent water landing at the end Scott, nicely done.

Ah, that abort to orbit and land to sea escape system. 😂

What about uLtRa FoX? That second thumbnail picture with the two space shuttles literally made me laugh out loud!

It makes me happy, in a way, that Scott Manley also wastes his time on nonsense like the rest of us.

When someone who is a hopeless idiot in spaceflight history tries to make clipart of a space shuttle.

That awkward moment when the Soviets stole all of our Space Shuttle blueprints, got them mixed in with their Buran blueprints, and said oh screw it.

The idea of putting small payloads on the top of the boosters isn't bad, good way to get small experiments into the upper atmosphere without having to do extra launches

1:07 I don’t know if it’s just me but I don’t see any bell nozzles at the back end of that shuttle. I see two aerospikes.

I'm guessing it started out as a Buran concept image.

How Many Things Are Wrong With This 'Space Shuttle' Image Scott Manley: Yes

I assume they were delivering 3 payloads. Makes perfect sense :D

0:39 that's space shuttle discovery xDD

"How hard do you have to squint for this image to become acceptable?"

Scott did you know NASA are having behind the scenes talks on another Shuttle because of the Material advancements in the way they seal the re-entry foam on the Booster and Shuttle? They have had significant improvements on tests they have done on the Unmanned X37B. The new way of sealing the reentry foam significantly eliminates it from breaking apart on launch and it has better thermal properties that can withstand much hotter and colder temperatures.

How not to get demonitized: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

"Flight Com! I can't hold it! She's breaking up! She's break - " Scott Manley, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.

I've got to be honest, when you did the mid video outro and cut back in, I was hoping to see you build the Soyuz with 2 shuttles as boosters.

I was so hopeful and then that "Check Yo Stagin'" popped up and it had me laughing loud af

6:10 “Any landing you can walk... er... swim away from is a good one.”

Whisky Tango Foxtrott

that was a hell of a water landing at the end though XD

This is fine, just set SCE to AUX, it's science. Cheers,

That two shuttles on a rocket idea reminds me of this old strategy war game. One of the rockets had space shuttles attached to it so multiple shuttles can reach space at the same time.

@Scott Manley, I just realized that I need to see a Korolev Cross Fractal of rockets in KSP, and I think you are just crazy enough to do it. How many can your computer handle?

me counting the Errors in this picture: one, two, ... yes

“We’ll return to regular service soon.” - Scott Manley, November 17 2019.

"how many things are wrong with this picture"? YES

Scott, you shows us the crush completion just to show us how you manage to land the buran shuttle on the ocian like a boss! Hail to the king of KSP!!

I really liked the switcheroo, really cracked me up when i saw that on twitter.

4:21 - Hey, at least the crew survi- oh, nevermind.

I know this video is basically a shitpost but the intro made me realise how grateful I am of you, Scott. If you asked me 5 or 6 years ago "Whats wrong with this picture?" I would have said "The boosters look weird". but after watching your content for several years now I instantly recognised the Soyuz rockets, the strange engine profile of said Soyuz, the odd staging of the boosters, and the minuscule shuttle engines. *I just wanted to thank you for everything you've taught me and your viewers!*

Greetings from Greenland, love your vids, especially these kinds of weird concepts. Fly Safe!

Wait... Manley? Kerballing? Have... I travelled back in time somehow?

Nice one, almost clicked away!

I love that this single image needed an entire video

Nice work Scott, thanks for the fun

It got worse the longer i looked...

I mean it seems kinda pointless to say at this point but the orbiter should be on the bottom during ascent right?

5:55 Great water landing. Which begs the question how a real space shuttle would handle it. Would it sink immediately? Would they have any chance of getting out before it sank?

That pic of the twin shuttles just cracked me up! Awesome!!! I did not know that I needed it in my life!

About to catch a plane? Fly safe!

From the icon i thought " this guy has got to be a moron" I wasn't disappointed

Scott, thanks for the video. I was having a "bad day" and this video turned the day around.

That was fantastic! I loved the shuttles strapped on as boosters😆nice water landing btw

ha! wisky tango foxtrot :)

I saw this the other day and couldn’t stop laughing, Made my day seeing that you made a video about it

Loooool ... I didn't see this coming! I thought you'll be okay after the tweet ... But you are right, it kept me up all night too

i love that you let this get to you.

Did you not use music to avoid Copyright attacks from sony?

*sees title on notification* okay, artist implementation? *sees **0:04* *HOLY SH*T WTF HOW WHAT WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED MY MIND... WHY???*

I once saw a drawing of a space shuttle. The doors to the cargo bay continued into the crew cabin. I assume that this was a proposed cabriolet space shuttle. The drawing was, if I remeber it correctly, on a cd-rom with useful drawings that our bright boss brought home frome the US. Many of those images were hilarious. A pistol missing the trigger, a naval gun that could not be elevated, a settler woman with a hefty plastic surgery on her mammae a huge party dress and a large gun and so on.

I'll admit that when I read the title on the thumbnail of 'An entire shuttle load of whisky tango foxtrot' I stopped at whisky first time I read it. So, 'entire shuttle load of whiskey' was what initially went through my head, followed by 'damn lucky astronauts on the ISS must be pretty happy with this'. Give me a break though, I'm tired and my pain won't let me sleep, so daft things go through my head at times.

As soon as I saw that image I thought "Oh please, please make that in KSP so we can see it fail spectacularly"

0:43 that is in fact space shutle discovery not columbia

“Whisky Tango Foxtrot” lmao

thank you for including the more enjoyable iteratons

hey, leave the person alone; they're an artist, not a rocket scientist.

Also the shuttle itself always maneuvered to the underside on take-off, it never sat on the top as depicted in the thumbnail ;) Love your work. Mitch from Australia.

One of the things that stood out to me was that although a lot of care was given to the hinges of the payload doors, there are not two separate doors. There's one piece, from the hinges we can see, over to presumably the hinges we can't see. Doors don't do well without a free end that can swing open. And the shape of that superdoor is perfectly cylindrical instead of the bulkier real thing. Ask yourself if you would design a minivan to mimic this shape. Edit: replaced "cargo" with "payload."

I imagine an intact shuttle would float for a long time

Therapist: Soyuz Shuttle isn't real, it can't hurt you Soyuz Shuttle:

you almost got me tabbing to a new window with your ending music :p

3:45 okay, that is just hilarious, and more bizarre than the thumbnail you talked about in this video.

Scott’s idea for bonus material: Crash compilation

I especially love the piano hinge used for the cargo bay doors.

Another thing that was wrong with the image is that the space shuttle's delta wings have no elevons. So they can only steer on the yaw axis.

I love the launch area in the 2-shuttles 1-soyuz picture. Also, ace water landing. 10/10 - Would survive.

Found it much easier to find the three correct things than count the wrong things.

When your main engines fail, and your sidebooster engines fail, but luckily, you remembered to put sideboosters on your sideboosters.

Omg you actually made an entire video on this!

Anybody noticed the screws holding the "boosters" to the main tank?

I made a space shuttle with a Saturn V as the external fuel tank in KSP. The Saturn V landed on the Mun and splashed down safely like a boss, while the space shuttle returned from LKO and landed on the runway. Probably the best thing I've done in KSP so far.

Thumbnail do distort people faces on purpose because your brain picks up on mistakes. It amplifies them which makes you look. this is beautiful, it worked.

Hey Scott, So love the shuttle compilation. Kinda shows just how great the real deal was. What are thoughts on SKYLON? The real next space shuttle IMHO

The bay on the shuttle in the thumbnail also seems to have only one giant door with what appears to be scaled up brass hinges from a kitchen cabinet all along it, or maybe it's three doors with two of them being really small at the front and back.

Most youtubers do not care about the accuracy of their content, only whether they can get as much content out there as quickly as possible. This channel is of course an exception :)

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!... nice one Scotty!

The best part of the video was watching how excited your crew of Kerbal Astronauts were to be going to space again.

Would be interesting to see you try making a sky hook in ksp. Just saw a video on it and would like to hear your more realistic take on it.

More LOL's please! this video gave me the biggest laugh today!!!

Nice job at the end there Captain Kerbal Sully!!!

The Space Shuttle would have been so much better had they used recoverable liquid fueled boosters. Imagine if they used two miniaturized Falcon 9s. That would be quite the concept.

Thanks so much for that. I have a very bad cold right now and needed the chuckle :-)

Never leave the theatre until the post-credits scene