KSP: Getting to DUNA for the first time! - Science Mode Playthrough (ft. Making History DLC) 

Finally did my first manned mission to Duna. Ran out of fuel while trying to escape the planet and ended up EVA-ing into orbit Matt Damon style

You felt bad about leaving debris in orbit but you didn't feel bad about deorbiting a radioactive engine into Kerbin's atmosphere you mad lad >:O

I've changed my recording software and rendering settings for this video, hopefully the framerate should be much better now!

I just wanted to say, I learned how to play the game like NASA did, I basically used Project Mercury as a tutorial to get into orbit (albeit it lasted much shorter than the real mercury) Gemini to learn how to dock in space, and Apollo to land on the Mun.

Just finished a duna mission tonight. I didn't realize that engineers must be level 2 to repackage chutes so I just set my return on a collision course for kerbin and used the little delta v I had left (about 100 extra) to try and slow down before bailing my crew out above an ocean

they should put a small cup of water on duna somewhere as an easter egg

10.6k science in 1 trip to duna ... wowwww i need to increase my ambition!

How to beat science mode in ksp: buy making history

Lol this came out just as I was planning my first Duna mission.

"Today, I hit a new low!" - Mark Watney on reaching a basin on Mars

You described Duna and how it doesn't have seasons due to its lack of planetary tilt. Turns out that was super helpful because i was taking a Biology exam today and it asked the source of earths seasons, thanks!

18:03 matt lownes newest quote! "dunas thin gravity"

At this point stock KSP missions are pretty repetitive and easy, because you can basically go anywhere in the system with a single command pod. It's trivial to push such little mass anywhere you want. Would love to see your take on a higher difficulty design challenge, like doing similar missions with proper life support aspects, like TAC life support + Kerbal Health where you have LS mass and habitable space design to account for.

Ready, Ike? Kick the baby! Don't kick the baby. Kick the baby. Wah! (crashing sounds).

Hello sir, that’s a fine video you got there.

Actually, if you count dwarf planets, Pluto has the largest satellite relative to its own mass. Charon is so big relative to Pluto that the Pluto system's barycenter is actually outside any of the objects in it, and as such there's some debate over whether it should be considered a dwarf planet with five moons or a double dwarf planet with four moons. The latter term isn't formally defined, so the debate will probably go on until they find more objects like this and the IAU has to actually make a decision, just like when they the found more KBOs and had to define what dwarf planets were.

Matt you careless cosmonaut! The solar panel problem is caused by the Kopernicus mod if you remove just kopernicus you should be fine! (like the coment for matt to see it pls)

Dang it...you make it look sooo easy...lol Loved the design of your ship :) I've kept you in my prayers regarding your schooling...your a better man then I am going for it. Once again a great video & looking forward to the next one. I hope you have a great day & be safe.

Holy cow Matt! That video was amazing! I could tell you put in a bunch of audio cuts in, and you didn't have to ramble to fill space. This is by far the best video of yours that I've seen.

enjoyed this video , the first of yours i have seen i think, your commentary is really awesome. wonderfully concise and accurate and really informative and also amusing :)

Thanks to the inspiration your first couple of videos of this series, I also found myself staying up ridiculously late on a sunday night trying to finish of my mun+minimus double space tourist mission. Not much work was completed on the Monday.

"small amount of fuel to reach" Me being a dumbass: *gets stuck there*

Legend! Im not sure if ive commented yet but ive been sucked into the game by watching your vids and my Wife says im obsessed hahaha. Your videos are well produced, entertaining and have helped me begin my conquest of the Kerbal System!

Instant thumbs up for intro song. You know the jams. Great content btw, love your channel!

Ok MAJOR props to you for how long this video is! Really enjoy your videos Matt! Keep up the good work!

I'm loving your videos! I was just at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago yesterday looking at the original Aurora 7 (Mercury-Atlas 7 mission capsule) and the Apollo 8 command module. I've also seen the Gemini 12 capsule at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. It's so cool being able to see these actual capsules in person, it really helps with the sense of scale when playing KSP. The astronauts were really cramped in the Gemini and Mercury capsules. The Apollo command module is a mansion by comparison, especially with the SM attached.

I like the idea of marking the biomes with flags. i'll do same at my next playtrough :) thx for this. Remember my first trip to duna while beta stage of the game. I had no idea what i'm doing and had no mods like kerbal engineer installed. So there was no destruction by heat in this version of the game and i came in with about 5000m/s and had no fuel to slow down into orbital speed. So the only way i was able to solve this is dive into the atmosphere and pass the duna surface down to 100m altitude... was a impressing ride with 5000m/s just above surface ^^ never forget that

I love your videos, I like how you go through and explain what your doing, and you’re also funny.

:D hi Matt, thx for making this day more entertaining and better :DDDD

Love the video! Great times Matt

This was a fantastic video that helped me get my first landing on Duna! (Successfully!) Good luck on your disgusting exams!

Love the ksp videos! Keep it up! 👍

I remember when I did this I landed a full rocket with the first stage of liftoff from Dina being a pressure appropriate engine followed up by a vacuums engine, your way of doing it is much better but the landing a full rocket on duna was still quite fun

My first Duna probe finally returned to Kerbin after nearly four years in a solar orbit. It was pretty successful considering it was originally meant to be a fly-by and return. Even got an Ike encounter.

great video matt!

This is by far the coolest rocket in this series! Awesome!

Thanks for this vid Matt. I now have a few ideas on how to make my own mission to Duna and have it succeed. I guess I can finally fill my science trees ;-)

When I escaped Dina once I was teleported out farther than jool it was weird thank god I quick saved

Thanks for ur vids! It help my with my English understanding! I'm from Quebec (and I speak French ^^)

i remember when i did this tutorial. good times. your tutorials realy helped me with getting to eve

I choose your rocket design to interplanetary missions.It still working for Eve Fly-by and lot of fuel left.I will try it to Duna and Ike land&return.I hope it works.I want MOAR science :)Have a good day.

Hol up. I have to correct you about the moons and satellites. You are right when it comes to planets. But pluto has a extremely big moon, relative to its size. The moon does not orbit around pluto, its more like pluto and the moon orbit a common spot.

nice job Matt! also I can see the difference with the recording! :D

from all the youtube channels i think we can all agree that he has the best music to theme connection

Matt! I've played ksp for over 3 years and i finally made my first rendezvous and docking

07:41 Just a small note so people trying this the first time won't get confused: Kerbal Alarm Clock will remember a calculateed transfer window, but to calculate it in the first place, you'll also need the Transfer Window Planner! So that's two Mods for that.

Ive been playing k.s.p for a while now on ps4... and man, you make rocket science look easy

Space X and elon would be proud. You inspire many and you should be proud. Thanks matt keep the good work up.

Jebediaha is a beast he has been on so many missions and has survived... Well we dont talk about that

28:41 - Put surface relays on ike and on duna. Instant geostationary satellite around duna. *Boom*

BEST 40 MINUTES OF RU-vid EVER

Hey Matt I just made it to kerbin orbit you make it look easy😁

You can take all science twice, as long as you save it in different pods/ containers. This means that you can get twice the science... I am using this for my second science save, although I have put my multiplier for science gain to five, it doesn't effect it. o7

Having lots of fun watching this!

For the rovers you could try a wider base or reaction wheels! Maybe check out Marcus’s rover designs as well!

Amazing vid 🙂 you inspired me to play kerbal space program 😄

Yay Matt lowne

This video just makes me appreciate the For Science mod even more.....

Yeah that happened to me on my first kerballed landing on Duna, my landing rocket tipped over.

I’m a beginner and I really appreciate your videos as they help tremendously. One thing that confuses me though is how you keep all your science points I always lose mine when I splash down. I do use a scientist but I was hoping you could make a tutorial on how to maximize you science gain

You can enable "Kerbal Experience" in the game difficulty if you wanted, it's just disabled by default for Science and Sandbox modes, enabled by default in Career mode.

Planting flags also gives kerbals the max XP they can receive per celestial body. Granted not a whole lot more than just landing but still XP is XP.

How did you get the pilot abilities without a pilot on Bob's craft?

-23 C is about as cold as the average Canadian day in Winter... That's not that bad!

brilliant mission. This is easily my favorite ship configuration (apollo style) and objective to play. maybe lower the explosion volume in-game for future videos. they're a bit louder than everything else and kinda jarring. otherwise, great video! awesome commentary

knows how to play ksp still watches

Mars has thin atmosphere. Landers can tilt sideways due to hills. Mars have re-entry affects.

I like your projects

I didn't realise you were a medical student! I'm a doctor from Australia, so I also had to do many OSCEs aha

I've been playing this game so differently. I sent satellites to each planet to map out biomed, collect and transmit science. I then sent manned missions in a shuttle with the convertotron and drill to refill my tanks. That way, you can hop, skip and jump from planet to planet.

THANKS SO MUCH

It would be cool if you did a career play through

Great video! What about visiting the kraken, or the dres canyon?

after seeing your SSTO design's, i'm pretty confident your rover design's ain't the issue

I have the same issue..... Shadowplay corrupts half of my replays to the point where Adobe Premier crashes on import. Trying to play the videos in VLC or Shadowplay works but then at roughly the ~15 minute mark the rest of the video is frozen on one single frame.

The American pier part had me dead

hey matt, your next video in this series should be an SSTO to unlock the rapiers. i remember you saying that rapiers are basically essential for SSTOs so might be a fun challenge to not use them

congrats 🥰

I think they've since changed the game so scientists can't repack parachutes, so it's at least a two Kerbal mission. My first Duna landing involved a pilot, scientist and engineer landing there. I visited two biomes but used all chemical rockets so there wasn't quite enough delta-v for Ike and that had to wait for another mission.

Good luck on those exams, and christ it sounds miserable haha!

I had the same issue with solar panels and discovered the cause was Kopernicus.

I recently created a huge rocket meant for duna, Ike, minmus, and mun. I was even able to complete my first successful mission to the Joolian system with it.

I just know realized watching this that "Burning Retrograde" is setting the retrograde marker as the target and just flying, and not *burning* some (lesser?) *grade* of fuel... I knew it didnt make sense but I had always brushed it off as: "Im yet to leave Kerbin, maybe later on ill unlock different grades of fuel"

27:50, similar to how Eve, or Venus, if they had any sort of civilization they wouldn't know about the stars, or the sun, or any of that until they decided to either fly high enough or to shoot a rocket into far enough up that they could see through the atmosphere.

6:12 you could always crash your stages at the Mun by performing a Mun flyby, that what I always do

I showed this to my brother. Now he's a pro KSP player.

I love doing OSCE’s. The SOAP note after .... I suck at it.

You should really look into the [X]Science mod it's amazing. instead of having to find all the little fiddly devices to click on manually, you get an awesome little UI so that you can just click on the UI to take science experiments at the right time. It's one of the best mods available. It also shows you where you have and haven't taken science from yet :) Btw I agree with you that rovers are awful in this game. Even if you can build a decent one, it takes sooooooo long driving across biomes it's such a waste of time. I prefer what you've done here and have an orbiter with a landing craft to go back and forth, even refuelling from the obiter if needed.

Checking this out four years later, due to the current weekly challenge for KSP 2, lol.

Having both docking ships target and hold the others docking bays is awesome in all but..... until you level up your Kerbals or have the best probes, you won’t have the ability to hold target with SAS :(

Now, Matt, you must create a rocket powered only by launch escape systems: to the Mun and back. You can't even use Sepratrons.

Hey matt.... Question. I've been using the community Delta-V map (very handy) but I have always wondered: Which version of Delta-V should construct my ships with? Say for getting into kerbin orbit. ~3400 dV. Should I use the surface dV calculations or vacuum dV calculations? I just don't know how to go about this and usually end up with too little dV to get to another planet.

Hi Matt, how do you know which way to tilt your lander when you're aiming for a mothership encounter ? I've had so much trouble making an encounter with a lander and a mothership.. Great video by the way!

Sorry, these are probably really stupid questions, but how do you have SAS control with bob? And seeing as you do, is there any reason to use jeb at all? And what's the reason you sometimes do your kerbin reentry against its rotation?

Hey Matt, I wouldnt normally suggest something for a video for science collection but how about doing something near the sun? Like setting up a comnet sattelite that can do some limited science collection to top you off without being a crazy amount gained but also be useful ongoing.

If you increased the min pressure on the parachutes, they would auto-deploy and not get shredded.

Wait, scientists can repack chutes now?:O That is a bit op, engineers were practically only useful for that lol...

I feel you on the 3-hour exams m8.

TL;DR: is using a lander better that just landing with the whole rocket itself (+I'm a noob)? I have a question (I'm a noob at this game so excuse me of its wrong) about going to another planet or moon and landing on it. Is it better to have a lander and when you are leaving the planet you dock back to the main ship or just land on the planet without going into orbit? I'm asking this because I haven't tried docking and it seems impossible because almost every rocket I make is terrible and I need better parts but I need to do more experiments but can't get to any of the planets

Just a warning about using that trick to automatically align docking ports. There's a bug in the game that's still in 1.4.1 where radially attached docking ports, or any docking ports not aligned with the axis of the root part, will not auto-target properly. The game will always try to align the ROOT part to your target - not the part you are controlling from. The nav-ball does switch to the correct direction when you "control from here" on your radial docking port, but the angle to your target is still calculated from the root part of your ship. So your trick only works for docking ports stack attached in line with your root part, for now.