Kerbals to Space! // For All Kerbalkind 8 

Another stellar entry in this series from the both of ya, and a nice return to the series with crewed flights. Begin Report: As stated in earlier reports, the Ka program remains superior to the Kel X platform, even with it's most recent iteration of the black knight. A recent test of the Ka 4 took it to 200 000 kilometers apoapsis as a part of a contract by the ministry of space, a retrograde burn being essential to it's sucess, giving the pilot some valuable experience that was then used to great effect in the... first manned flight of the vostok. There was 2 of them, after all. Further, I have included a translated recording of a televised transmission sent by the the newly minted hero of the union, Yuri Kerman, from Vostok 2's flight. And the rather hopeful message included within. While... not indicative of their space program or the union's opinions at large, it is a promising sign of potential for future co-operation between individuals from both agencies in an unofficial capacity. That, or it's all scripted propaganda. The soviets are taking firearms into space after all. It would also appear both agencies are approaching the limit of these spaceplane design's capabilities with the currently available technology, so further focusing on rocket launches is expected

Peter Kerman, "I tell ya, it was HUGE!. 10, no 20 tentacles the size of skyscrapers, just erupted outta the sea. It grabbed onto my plane and lashed me back and forth for what felt like hours. And when it was all over, after my plane was shattered and broken into a thousand pieces, it vanished back into the depths, like it was never here to begin with."

Just finished Beardy’s. I like how you scheduled the premiers back-to-back so all of us could have an amazing watch-a-thon. Thanks N9 and Beardy for this amazing series

Was this worth the 6 months? Hell yeah! WHOO! MY FAVORITE SERIES HAS RETURNED! Edit: For the Apollo spacecraft, maybe Acapello would work, just like in the stock KSP game.

Instead of Apollo, you could name it after the ancient Egyptian god of the moon: Khonsu.

YESSS FINALY THE SERIES IS BACK

For the Kerbalisation of Apollo, I think Kerbollo would work well.

"Peter almost died, over all a pretty good year..." -N9 Gaming.

It's amazing that liking the "little green people go boom" game could give me such a love of spaceflight history. I'm not complaining, I love to be here.

BEST KSP SERIES EVER

Love how Beardy is constantly trolling you with his sp...weather satellites.

Seems like Peter went so far off course, he overshot the Gulf of Mexico entirely and made it all the way to the Bermuda Triangle.

For your Apollo: Kerpollo - Add "ker" instead of just "K" Kerbollo/Kerbolo - Big-brain double-Kerbalized because of Kerbin's star, Kerbol. Maybe a Kerbal sun god?

It’s back!!! Ahhhh and it’s an hour too I have been blessed today

My excitement for the return of For All Kerbalkind? See Eileen’s expression at 30:13.

YES!! Any N9 video is awesome but the return of For Kerbal-kind... just YES!

Not even the darkness can prevent us from reaching for the stars

Someone mentioned Khonsu, the Egyptian god of the Moon, as a replacement name for Apollo. May I suggest then Kaguya, the Japanese princess of the Moon ? I'd suggest Tsukuyomi because he's a proper god and all but it's quite the mouthful.

Finally we got the long awaited ep8 of my all time favorite series in ksp: for all kerbal kind And it would be a fun idea to try to make a 5th generation of the kell bell x space plane and make it capable of reaching orbit

no one can beat this series

13:00 Since Apollo is a Greek god I think you could call it 'Kraken', the god of kerbalkind

Great video! I almost died when you spoke "Gemini" though.

thanks for including my music!

Good stuff, man! Rocking the X-plane and a proper Mercury-Atlas in an hour long marathon of goodness! Glad to have you guys back! It's a good time for all! -CM

Listening to your absolutely professional commentary makes me forget I'm watching a video game and immerses me so much I feel like I'm watching the History Channel! Love your channel and Beardy's channel both! Great stuff guys!

I was starting to wonder what happened with this series, but here we are :D

ITSSSSS BACKKKKK!!!!!!!!

Dude I was having a shit day and saw this in my feed, it was such a mood boost. I'm so happy for you both to get back on the series!

And you can't even assign proper pilots! Seriously speaking i absolute love these videos. Keep 'em up! :)

The build times are just perfect timing nice job!!!

I've said it before, but this kind of friendly competition combined with the context of you narration adds a surprising amount of stakes to this series. In some ways, it actually has higher stakes than the various Kerbal War series. In Kerbal War, no-one wants things to end too fast, so things get a little overbalanced behind the scenes. In For All Kerbalkind, losing is a very real possibility that wouldn't kill the series.

Finally! Checking both of your guy's accounts daily has paid off!!

This is great I kinda feel like you're the first Ro guy I've seen that doesn't come off condescending. It's just easy listening to you talk about your missions. Def thumbs up!

Congratulations N9! Theres ALWAYS something magical about the first successful orbital flight in a Rp-1 game

Yes!!! Been waiting so long for this. I love how you both edit your videos differently in your own styles, but they're both so watchable!

Just beautiful. Please keep going with this. It is really something people will refer to in the future.

You two should do a Paris airshow to show off your plane building skills

Wow, that final mission was bloody lucky 🍀. Excellent flying sir

The Deep Space Kracken was displeased with the pilot

That Kell X-4 descent must have been heart-pounding to fly. 311km to ~40m above the ocean and GLOC in between, geez!

I haven't ever changed my install much after deciding on my initial mod list way back when, but that brushed aluminum livery is going to be the thing that forces me to change. So sweet.

Nice, finally

YASSS I’ve waited so long for this moment!! The return of one of the best ro series out there!

Really cool content and great quality from a channel with relatively few subs. Good luck with future videos.

Love this series so much!! so glad to have it back :)

Return of the Empire

I really like the parts where you look at the tech tree and talk us trough the strategic decisions you make.

Good to see you posting these again!

I've been waiting so long for this. POG

Great to see this return! Tell the boys in the Astral Foundation to put in some overtime and beat those Soviets

That was certainly worth the wait - great video

It's BACK! 👏👏👏👏

Yes been waiting for this one!!!!

now hes back! good content as always

If we will land Jamestown on the moon how about kamestown for kerbalisation

First

This is the coolest series on RU-vid

This was worth the wait. Good to be back

It's great to see For All Kerbalkind again! Thanks N9.

i cannot believe you actually went for 300k straight up!!! that was insane!!!!!

For the Apollo problem, maybe go with Arkemis, or maybe kelios, after Artemis and Helios, the goddess of the moon (I think) and the titan of the sun respectfully

It’s Back! HE’S BACK!

WHOOOO! It's back BABYYYY!

Yay! Glad to see this back!

First thing that came to my mind when you mentioned the K-4's vertical flight profile was how high the G load would be during reentry. I've seen discussions of that issue related to real world spaceplane development, with an estimate of 12 G for a 200 km apogee -- and going higher, of course, increases your reentry velocity, hence your 15 G experience. The conclusion of that discussion was that one *must* plan for a trajectory with significant horizontal velocity (= downrange travel, of course; IIRC ~300 km downrange was considered a minimum) and a "belly flop" reentry attitude relative to velocity vector in order to be able to apply aerodynamic braking at higher altitudes and shed more velocity before entering dense air. In real world, 12-15 G hanging from the straps has considerable risk of outright killing your pilot; the human neck isn't up to that kind of stress.

Peter got to touch the edge of the envelope and live.

Tip to save time: In Testlite (or Testflight) you have infinite ignitions if on the launchpad or clamped down - so you could've saved so much time because you wouldn't have to rollback! and well done!

welcome back!

Awe-some! =)

It's back!!!

At long last

ITS BACK!!!!!!

quadriga - four horses, referencing Helio's sun chariot later passed on to Apollo.

YES FINALLY !

This is SUCH a gorgeous series. Formosissima!

Hey, at least Eileen didn't have to keep her retro pack strapped on like John Glenn did. Much smoother reentry.

WERE BACK BABY!! LETS GOOO SHEEEESH

I am so happy to see this series continue. /tiphat

Kaballo, Spanish for horse, and name the particular capsule to get your lunar landing Bukephalus! It's the least you could do, after landing in Mexico more than once...

I watch in tv too. I saw it yeseterday.

YEESSSS I love this series

FINALLY ITS BACK I WAITED FOR SO LONG IM SO HAPPY

thats great keep the good work and also i love space program 😂

That Katlas looks fantastic! I know you have a video showing how you made it, but it's very long and getting a chance to watch it isn't going to be easy.

WAIT. IT'S BACK. WOOHOO! *JUMPS OUT WINDOW* WOOHOO!

yey, is back

HELL YEAHH, SERIE'S BACK MY BOISS

This is so much fun watching these, great job again too Beardy and you. Just realized your two episodes are about movie length now - wow, time to cancel Netflix.

N9: "Leave a comment below about how to add 'K' to "Apollo"... Me: "Kapollo!" N9: "...because I don't want to do something dumb like "Kapollo" 😢

big vibes

It's been 84 years...

i really hope that you continue the space race farther out then just hte moon

Dang this race is getting close

Maybe next time give the astronauts a gun or something to fight the kraken

Kerpollo? Kollo? Just suggestions

Mun done blew up with that impact

Its been too long 😭

OH MY GOOOOOOOD ITS HAPPENIIIIIING!!!!!!! ITS HEEEEREEEE ITS FINALLY HEEEEEERRREEEEEE!!!!!

*LES GOOOOOOOOOO*

YEEEES