KSP: Today we Conquer the Mun! - Science Mode Playthrough (ft. Making History DLC) 

Just to clarify some of the "less than agreeable" responses (from what I know is a vocal minority!) to this series thus far: 1 - I picked science mode over career mode so that we don't have to faff around with part testing contracts and similarly tedious missions 2 - We can avoid the part limitations that the early KSC buildings impose to make the rocket designs a bit more interesting to watch from a video standpoint 3 - I'm not trying to "brag" when I say things like "don't be disheartened if it takes you a little longer to do xyz", I'm just trying to reassure newer players that a lot of things in KSP take a lot of practice to get used to - sometimes things might look easy in my videos but that's only because I've spent so long practising. It's really just supposed to serve as words of encouragement and a "don't give up!" attitude. Idk. Maybe I didn't communicate this well enough but that was the objective, not really sure what there would be to gain by trying to put other people down about their own abilities... xxxx

"I like to use struts" Would you say you like to..... strut your stuff?

Challenge: Dock with a space station only in cockpit view, in the Vostok capsule.

"Scientist.. AND a pilot..(which adds a 'little bit' of weight..)" Hey man.. Why do you feel the need to fat shame Valentina?

the Gemini was actually imagined as a moon capsule and it had ejector seats

Nice work on getting to the Mun! Fun Fact: Gemini was actually once considered for a moon mission, given how versatile the vehicle was. They even considered both direct ascent and lunar orbit rendezvous with a variant of the craft called the Advanced Gemini, and the latter method would have featured a small one-man open cockpit lander that would have descended to the lunar surface with one astronaut and would later lift off again to rendezvous with the orbiting Gemini capsule, which would then take the astronauts home.

6:47 Why is the capsule so sad?

You can also use kerbNet on probes to get biome or height maps of the surface below you, then place a waypoint and land on the next pass.

Speaking of risk, the Duna mission I did yesterday had so much “risk” that my final burn was with monopropellant due to being out of fuel. Just for context, it was an sstd rocket (single stage to Duna not an actual term)

6.50. Aw sad gemini. Built to orbit, abused to the mün

I really love watching you build the rockets being a noob. I like it when you tell us why your building each piece so i could possibly build in the future with the same info!

Great video Matt :) I had not played the science mode before, but now I am going to start one up thanks to you & this series :) Don't worry about what those people say, do what you want...it's your channel...do what makes you happy & I'll watch it...I like your style :) Well, I hope you are havin' a great day & be safe.

I challenge you to get a space station into a retrograde kerbol (sun) orbit

Lol, nailed the landing there mate. Usually all of my landings result in tipping over. I do make a wide wheel base, but where I mess up is that just before touchdown i reduce velocity too much (to say 0,5 m/s) and then horizontal velocity starts to be an issue, so my rockets land with little too much of it. Will have to work on that one little more i guess ;-)

0:17 KSP, DLC, making history... hey, that rhymes! And it’s a jingle!

Matt, I am loving that music in the background.

I'm really liking Making History and the new parts I just made a 14 stage monstrosity using the Apollo and R-7 parts. The first stage is made up of NINE Mastodons and *TWELVE* Kickbacks in two stages, on two S4-512s, Four FL-C1000s, the new Kerbodyne quintuple engine cluster, and an S3-S4 adapter tank (That's 51,120 fuel, not counting the SRBs. It also costs 373,672). The second stage had FOUR MORE kickbacks and a Rhino on two S3-14400s. The third stage, just because why the hell not, had another Mastodon on an X200-16. It weighed 1326.300 tons, had 277 parts, and had a total fuel of 68,850 (plus 42,158 SRB fuel, including 64 sepatrons to keep the Kickbacks from destroying the thing, plus an LES), the vast majority of which was gone by the time I reached initial orbit... XD Not only did I, despite effing up and getting an inclined orbit, still have the ENTIRE second stage for the Munar injection (which I did not anticipate to be doing in the slightest), I successfully completed one full orbit and could have landed if I had brought landing gear with me, and returned home with half the fuel in the upper stage remaining. I could have done Minmus if I had timed my burn better. I could have done interplanetary with a more efficient upper stage engine and a second X200 (I just put an RE-J10 on there with an X200-32 and -16. Duna at least, though I'm skeptical about the return trip without a dedicated lander. Could probably do better with the Atomic engine). And no asparagus staging to f*** up either. To be fair, this is entirely a sandbox/science only affair, the entire thing does cost over 450,000.

Love this series so much

Your vids are so relaxing

yay I love this series!

oof! I just remembered when I was so new, I didn't know what TWR was. My first mun lander had plenty of TWR, but then I wanted to land this mining rocket which had too little, and barely enough fuel too. I tried and tried and tried until i got traumatized and left the mun _forever!_ Had some awesome crashes along the way though, like the one where the lander sailed all the way over the giant crater I wanted to land in and shattered itself upon the very tip of the rim of the crater. The nacelle which had the probe core but no antennae ended up hovering at a slight but ominous angle, slowly rotating like some creepy alien invader! :D

Great vid Matt Love your Chanel

I always custom build every rocket. Some folks like to create a fleet of boosters and turn them into subassemblies, but as a career mode man (albeit with custom contracts and boosted money rewards), I can never bring myself to do that because it seems inefficient. Custom building the booster each time lets you tweak it to be just as big and expensive as it needs to be to complete the mission at hand, and not a Kerbit more.

Who else noticed the offset side boosters? My OCD side is screaming at Matt “ADJUST THE THING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD”

Have fun, stay safe and continue like this. Also thank you for the entertainment.

the kerbals are either really happy or really freaked out

Damn I did it all wrong then. I played career mode first when I started and yea mun was a pain and I thought minmus was gona be hell. Then I was surprised . I brought so much damn fuel with me to minmus I was able to nearly explore the whole moon

YES! Another quality video from Matt! #discordsquad

cool video. i do the same in naming the flags after the biomes since years. in my early ksp flights i gave them numbers and wrote the names of the kerbals in it... not needed. just biome is perfect.

Don't forget that there were some studies that looked at using Gemini hardware to get to the moon before Apollo. They would have used a Transtage, Centaur, or Agena upper stages for TLI. They would've then used a light-weight lander to land and launch from the moon.

Hi Matt! For the next mission, I think that you could send, together with the satellite around Duna, an unmanned little science rover! Not necessarily something like Mariner, Curiosity or Mars 2020, but I think it would be very nice and helpful to see this kind of mission in stock KSP as you do. Please, I love your content, and I'm waiting for you to do this kind of mission since I started to follow your channel! :D In hope that i gave you a nice idea, I thank you in advance. Keep going, yours is an amazing job. 💪 Bye

OML right off the bat fukin love the music. HELLS YA im vibin out plz do this again

holy fork this is amazing! **Trident*

love the series

I’m loving it

I just finished the last episode. I didn't realize you could get so much science at minmus. I'm playing career (I enjoy the contracts. I do mostly tourism contracts) I'm definitely doing minmus

Interesting RL historical note: NASA did have paper plans to send Gemini to the Moon, launched by a Titan-III/Centaur, just in case Apollo/Saturn was seriously delayed and it looked like the Soviets had an imminent moon landing coming up. To say it was 'no frills' was an understatement but the modded Gemini DID have enough dV to get to the surface and back to Earth with most of the room in the OM turned over to propellent for the main propulsion system.

Hey, I love your vids. I am just asking a question. Whenever I make a big rocket using things like Mammoth engines and stuff with those big tanks, they always wiggle a TON and flip and explode. Whenever I see yours, they are super stable and perfect. I am just asking how you do it.

Keep up doing these "tutorial" videos! Great work.

Hi Matt can you tell us how do you use kerbal engineer redux with ksp 1.4.1?

I tried to land on the mun 3 times. I was fucked up beyond repair, I left like twenty kerbals stranded with no help

Where do you get the good biome maps? I find a gazillion with google search and I don't now which are the good ones.

Best Taco Bell add I’ve seen in a while...oh yeah nice mum lander design.

The new spacesuit is based on the Russian Sokol IVA suit, which is similar to the suits I have tested in the past. It is really cool, and all the air is held in by a rubber band tied in a knot! It made me nervous the first time I wore it pressurized, but it is amazing how simple yet effective it is.

WOW! 14 minutes! Good thing my dog woke me early today!

the return of the genesis rockets!

Listen to the music and Matt's voice. Epic rap.

Matt, what audio software and settings do you use for the videos?

Yeah the Munar Excursion Module (we will call it the MEME for short) also needs some bug and visual fixes, like the shrojx you cant disable

Don't listen to the naysayers, I think this is a really good idea. I can't wait for the next episode.

I'd like to see you do a science playthrough with the Grindy Science mod (only 33% of science is awarded at a time) and 20% science rewards in KSP settings effectively giving you 6.6% science rewards and making repeated trips/experiments beneficial. That's what I'm currently playing and finding it fun having to use trash rockets to fly about the solar system trying to collect science.

Gemini was considered for a mission to the Moon. Vintage Space did a video about it.

Any tips for how to get more science from each planet and moon?

Another good episode .I want to play this so bad.

Man i got to the mun yesterday on science mode :D

can you change between the new space suit and the old one, the new one is cool but it looks like it would be for somewhere like duna and not the vacuum of space. I dont have the DLC yet

I could have sworn matt had more then 200k subs... where did the subs he deserves go???

i watched the first vid of the series i heard matt say minmus is easier to get to than the mun then my brain exploded

How do you get SO much science from missions? I’m new to the game but started a science mode save.

How did you get Kerbal Engineer to run on 1.4? It doesn't seem to work for me...

Are docking ports now broken with the update? Whenever I try and dock with the DLC, the docking ports seem to push away from each other when they get close :(

Finally got into space. Went to minmus and missed 😂😂😂😂

What editing software do you use?

It would be nice to do an insight (or opportunity/curiosity) recreation mission to scout duna before sending kerbals to it👍

Lowne Aerospace? Nah, L.A.!

you can also use the biome mode on kerb net if you've got a satellite

How do you get into a nice orbit and couple space program

Im so glad i went to minnimuz

Im watching you!

Could you do a really basic plane like proper biplane one engine ww1 style and have it fly around kerbin and take research or you could have it so it had to be used to defend the space center as a last resort

Tbh to land on the mun you only need one short 2.5m tank attached to a spark for easy 4k dv lander. Also you probably could do the whole mission with the mk1 parts

Does anyone know when making history is available on Xbox one?

What Matt Says: We will do an VEA Report from Kerbins Grasslands What Subtitles Says: We will do an Evee Airport from Kerbins Grasslands :D

Finally! :)

EEEEEE PRAISE LE SCIENCE!

I like the original space suits

Yes

Fun fact the Gemini program was at one point actually planned to do a moon landing

Thank you for understanding that some of us have to suffer an SD existence 😁

I actually landed on the moon first. Took me more tries than I would like to admit but I didn’t even think minmus would be easier

Wait you dont need to comeback on Kerbin with the Data Storage Unit ??? The Scientist collect all the Data and store it in the Command Pot ? Why do you use a data storage unit so on seconde stage ? Anyway Love your videos Matt. Many thx

can anyone send me his version of the kerbal engineer redux? when i install it, it's not the same and annoys me.

Do 1.4 space station/ interplanetary base video! If you do that, ill give you moar boosterz

I just got the DLC today!

I just cant figure out how to land on other moons and planets. I can get into space easily, and can orbit others with difficulties, but cant seem to be able to land. You make it look easy.

When he said he had 4000 something m/sec of delta V I thought back to the rocket I made today that is designed to be a direct ascent mission and after all the other stages have fired you have about 4200 delta v to capture land and return The flight plan goes something like this Use stage 1 and most of stage 2 for orbit Use rest of stage 2 and a little of stage 3 to flyby Use stage 3 to capture Land at about less than 5 m/sec Go back up Set up maneuver to go home in 1 or 2 maneuvers and have wiggle room for error

noice

How can I install mods to KSP 1.4 ?

What are the donut looking fuel tanks for?

I got a Kerbal stuck on the mun and I need to get it back but I don’t know how to build and fly a rocket there.

I go to the mun first because it is closer.

Once, I tried to go to the Mun and got a kerbal stranded. Sent a rescue mission and that kerbal got stranded. Sent a third and managed to escape the Mun's sphere of influence only to run out of fuel. A fourth mission successfully recovered the stranded kerbals but I lost all my science ):

You should make a Duna and Ike mission with the same rocket next time.

There is something going on! I burned at the time i needed to, but my manouver note changed! It now took more than you!

how expensive is the dlc?

Pleas check out the befor Kerban mod it is a mod that compleatly recreated the solar system as if it takes place befor the backstory for expedition eve

Does anyone know if this dlc is coming out for console players?

I'm a nub at KSP, still haven't left the Kerbin System though I've been playing on and off since 2016. The thing that always turns me off is that I can't for the life of me figure out docking. Lol. BUT, I do get to the mun every time (direct decent of course) by burning directly toward my target node (the mun) upon mun rise from LKO. I always find that very easy, but it probably spoils me to a level of lesser understanding of placing nodes for transfers. I think you are very skilled at this game, and are also very humble about your level of skill. I know that you consistently provide Craft files on missions, and I've used your Keo stationary array design to engineer my own Com Sat array in my career save! I've learned so much form you, but can you do me a favor, and the entire newbie kerbonaut kommunity a favor? Make a Mission Builder file to train for docking. I know you've said a million times just make an apollo style craft for minmus and reload the save, but i'm shit for engineering. And lazy, the actual kind of lazy, not the kind that you casually mention when it's obvious you're not. ;) If you find time, it'd be amazing, and I think you would help many of the nubs here since it would be fun as well as fulfilling for them. Sorry to make a long ass request post, I know you get requests (and challenges) all the time, and reading a novel about one is probably none too fun, but maybe it's endearing. And could sway a space faring kommander of the kerbal way such as yourself into action?

matt, do you recommend the dlc?

i got the game and dlc now :D