08:35 slight verbal typo - obviously meant to say that all the stock probes are too BIG edit: also at 05:37 I said v1 instead of v2 - v1 was a jet-powered craft, not a rocket
OMG Matt! You brought an ear to ear smile to my face with that song! I inherited some old vinyl records from my father years ago and one of them was "That Was The Year That Was" from Tom Lehrer 1965. The Wernher Von Braun song is #6 on the B side. Thank you for that bro!
@@michagrill9432 The people in danger areas get warned ahead of time of launches. They are increasingly moving their launches off there (as can be proven by the fact they also are experimenting with sea launches, the only reason they were mainland was to avoid being nuked by the US aircraft in case of war. You didn't listen to the CIA about their fabricated drug war, but now you do about china?
That always interested me. A lot of aircraft from WWII were converted into civilian platforms like airliners, water bombers, etc. It’s also crazy to think that nuclear bombs almost got the same treatment with the development of the Orion Drive
@@MattLowneIt's an excellent video, for sure! Even during the cold war, the American Minuteman also paved the way for spaceflight, after being used - or threatened to be used - to deliver more destructive payloads
Yeah, I messed up and said V1 when I meant V2. V1 is of course a jet-powered aircraft, often called the doodlebug in the UK. My gandmother's friend was sadly killed by one during the war.
I've built one with vanilla parts before. And yes, it flies. The NCS adapter makes for a pretty good bottom part, above that just regular Mk1 parts, another NCS adapter above it and a small cone at the top. And what you mean, the rocket isn't realistic? Looks perfectly capable of sending belgian reporters and their dogs to the moon!
Your storytelling in the start of this is actually really good! You could have started just getting into the mod, you could have started with the V2 itself. But you didn't. You chose to take somrthing in the stock game that any of us can see and let that be your entry point into the topic. It's small, but really awesome and an effective way to combine the story and game in a deeper and more mraningful way. Very good video!
IIRC, there was a second-generation of the V2 (A4) called the A9 and a booster called the A10. The A9'/A10 was meant to be used against the United States but was never completed. Interestingly, it had an alternate upper stage, a *rocket plane* called the A9V. The A9 became the US-built Jupiter and the A9V the Bell X1 rocketplane, although they were never used in the way von Braun envisaged or dreamed. I read an alternate history story where Magnus von Braun, Werner's kid brother, defected to the US by stealing the prototype A9V and performing the first crewed suborbital trans-Atlantic spaceflight, landing at New York's naval air station. So, mod creators, if you want, please add the A10 and A9V to the mod pack so we could do a Dieselpunk first space flight.
The Bell X-1 rocket plane was a completely indigenious US design, started in 1943, had had nothing to do with any German developments. The Jupiter/Redstone was a direct descendant of the A4 rocket though, designed by members of A4 design team and tweaked with better US materials and structural design to higher performance. The subsequent Jupiter IRBM had little left in common with the technology of the A4 and had a far more advanced engine and structural design which pushed it to a range of over 2500 km. The German A9 remained a paper project (the A9-A10 combination even more so). The A9 would have been a somewhat larger winged version of the A4, not a rocket plane. The wings would, according to the design team, have enabled ti to skip of the upper atmosphere and so greatly improve its range, but such a missile/glider/skipper has never been built up to this day and it is extremely doubtful whether the concept would have worked in practice.
I really enjoyed your idea of opening the subject with a bit of history, it is always useful to educate ourselves about the origins of rocket technology.
I'm actually interested in you making more videos on historical weapons like the V2 I'd love a video on making a KSP replica of the V1 Flying bomb or the American Minuteman ICBM
With the right mods, an EVA intercept is actually pretty easy. You need something to allow you to target the target and something to accurately display prograde/retrograde/etc.
Excellent tidbit of history about that early design of Goddard's and why it wouldnt work. Best part of the video and it isnt behind a lot of faff. And of course, the rest of the video's great and concise too. 10/10
Their accuracy was pretty awful, plus they didn't really understand re-entry and lost a lot on the way down. Any weapon that kills more people making it than in use, is a bit on the dreadful side. In some ways it did win the war though. So much of Germany's resources went into making it, they couldn't keep up with tanks, planes, and things that actually worked.
Another interesting early rocket was never actually built, in 1929 Fritz Lang persuaded Hermann Oberth to build a rocket to promote his film Frau im Mond. Didn't happen because Oberth had a bit of a breakdown, and the project ended up being taken on by some amateurs (the Verein für Raumschiffahrt), including a young, pre-SS Werner Von Braun.
A similar mod to this I enjoyed was Beale's Taerobee mod which included a some stockalike early rockets and aircraft like the Aerobee, Bumper (V-2) and X-1 Aircraft
One should keep in mind that the bumper project was not a civilian research project but a military one to investigate new techniques for use in military missiles, such as staging, and getting data from very high speed and attitude operation for subsequent long ranged ballistic missile develoment.
interestingly the V2 didnt have aerodynamic control surfaces but used thrist verctoring. However, the engine did not gimbal itself. The rocket had graphite fins inside the exhaust that would redirect it
Goddard flew his rocket 1926, almost hundred years after we have SpaceX doing seemingly impossible things with Starship, human ingenuity is a wonderful thing!
The problem with the pendulum rocket is that the impulse is conserved and the mass is sluggish. The center of mass (the fuel) wants to stay at front of the motion. That is also the reason darts and arrows have the center of mass at the tip. It is easy to visualize: Gravity is pulling things down right? So the center of mass is stable at the lowest point of the force vector. Now push a rocket from below to counteract gravity. The force vector is pointing upwards and the most stable point is at the top of the vector that means the tip of the rocket.
Bumper was definitely not the first 2 stage rocket... but presumably the first 2 stage to go to space. PS Wikipedia says it was the "first large 2 stage rocket" which is weasel words by wikipedia standards.
I'd definitely reccomend trying out the Bluedog Design Bureau + JNSQ combo. It gives you all kinds of historically accurate parts (like over 1000, from every us launch vehicle imaginable) while still being pretty stockalike in terms of the parts being modular / swappable. JNSQ in particular gives a huge remaster to all the stock planets
There is one thing that kinda has engines on the front - the 9k121 Vikhr missile (a rocket!) check it out, it's quite interesting! The missile freaking spins, and still can turn and do all the exploding, and it's a beam riding missile - honestly, I got no idea how it can do all that AND SPIN
I just wish I'd been in the room the first time they were sitting around trying to determine what to put on top of a rocket and someone said, "Why not put another rocket on it?" And everyone was like, "what? Why? Are you crazy?" And then someone sat back, stroked their chin and was like, "no no, that...could be good." Honestly, rockets on rockets sounds like a meme if you think about it 😂
I rarely comment on videos, but I really enjoyed this one. Something about real-world history paired with KSP was very satisfying to watch in a short amount of time. If possible, can you make more mod videos covering aspects of history and KSP?
kerbin and kerbol are so small and easy. thanks to rss/ro i enjoy every televised spacex launch with the telemetry they publish, which is almost identical to the one used in the game.
i really wish that something like this was the starter tech for KSP career mode, you would only need to do 1 or 2 launches to get government approval to fund an actual space program
Oy. Someone made another. I never made the little probe thing. Just did the "Wernher's Old Stuff" and some of his pipe dream ideas. But my mod looked better :D
The mod missed an opportunity to include the A9 and A10 parts. Though never built because germany lost the war before building any (thank god), they would have made a nice next tier up from the A4 parts for KSP.
Hey matt, been waiting for a new vid to tell you my birthday was the other day! Im 14 now and persuing my flihht career. Im going to travel to london hopefully soon (:
My existence is due the V2, kind off. In 1939 my 9 year old grandmother was evacuated from London to live with distant family in Chester. When in 44 a V2 destroyed the family home and killed her father the rest of the family moved up and never when back. My Grandfather was in the same class and they got married when they where 21 (for a tax brake). If that v2 hadn’t of force them to move and stay moved after the war it’s unlikely they would have married. I’m not saying the V2 was a good thing, the suffering at Mittelwerk alone was appalling. BTW they are both alive and 94, although very ill it’s seem insane that the v2 and starship are in the same life time.
"began relocating nazis scientists to america" is the funniest fucking possible way of saying America integrated the Nazis cleanly into their operations lol
No way the Germans called it the V2 not for "version" but for "vengeance" like, I don't want to believe it because it's so comically evil but so were the Germans during WW2 and google says it was true, but wow. Did nobody think "are we the baddies" while designing vengeance weapons?
Mod list for everyone: Stockalike station parts redux(and it's iva mod), volumetric clouds mod, freeiva, deferred rendering, restock, restock waterfall, hud replacer with Ztheme, kerbal engineer redux, parallax 2.0,
