NASA's Deep Space Gateway & SLS Rocket - Kerbal Space Program 

Hi everyone! Sorry that content has been slow this week. I'll try and make a shorter version of this video set to music that should be uploaded at some point next week, but not sure when. A lot of stuff has/is happening with me IRL right now so it has been hard finding time to spend making videos. One of the things I'm dealing with is looking for a new house to live in after having a bit of a battle with my current landlord, which is eating up a lot of my time. Should be business as usual following this, thank you for your patience and continued support :)

If you switch e and a in gateway you get “deep space getaway”

And now 3 years later, the SLS is a real, tangible thing, the gateway has full funding and the launch plans are basically scheduled in. We're going back!

'SLS system' Space Launch System System

The cinematics are actually frickin amazing, great job Matt

Imagine if the Deep Space Gateway discovered a certain monolith on the moon. Also on an slightly irrelevant. As much as I am excited for the Deep Space Gateway, I am really skeptical for the mission with the budget and all that. But hey, hopefully I am terribly wrong

SLS = space launch system. So everytime you said SLS System I was rolling my eyes. Nice video beside that :D

Awesome!

2 years later: Artemis' lower stage is finished.

Am I the only one who read this as Deep Space Getaway? Because I pictured someone lounging poolside on Mars

The sad thing is that part of the reason NASA hasn't been doing well is because 10% of the US population doesn't even think space travel is real.

It’s been 2 years and I haven’t gotten over the fact that Matt made the Orion SM the same diameter as the capsule. I d o n t l i k e i t

"either that, or the upper stage will be fully robotic" That would make the most sense, and it was the original plan back when the SLS was called the Ares V. Bring up the crew in the Ares I, bring all of the equipment and modules in a separate, unmanned rocket. Automated docking has come a long way and it's really not that difficult to assemble things in space with robotic arms now. But... for some reason they decided to combine it all into one for SLS. I'm sure there will still be a variant of the SLS which will be cargo only. And for when NASA does need to just send people up, they can hitch rides aboard SpaceX rockets.

I LOVE it when you do rocket recreations, they are always so accurate!😁

I really like this, well done!

I think it's important to remember that, right now, SpaceX is just a decently successful and promising launch provider, while NASA and its contractors (an ecosystem to which SpaceX belongs -- the company wouldn't exist without NASA infrastructure and government customers) have considerable experience in human spaceflight and interplanetary robotic missions, both from a launcher and a payload perspective. Meanwhile NASA has to contend with constantly changing priorities and funding cuts. SpaceX's figures aren't public, but plans like the BFR seem to try to probe a market that doesn't exist, and it seems to me that there's only so much money you can raise by offering rich idiots translunar flybys. Grandiose plans don't count for much if you can't see your way to enacting them.

Great work Matt, keep it up👍

I hate to keep doing this but that's not the right Orion upper stage. The one you recreated is the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion stage (which will fly only on EM-1) but the Deep Space Gateway will be built using the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS). Also, NASA doesn't collide their stages with the Moon. Bits of rocket hitting the surface that fast has a high likely hood of creating space junk, so instead they use a gravity assist and allow them to fly into deep space. For EM-1, a handful of cube-sats will be deployed later from the ICPS to test radiation and such.

Outstanding camerawork! I loved the panning shot with the flag at the beginning. And the music strangely fit...

I have a really strong feeling that spacex is going to arrive before nasa

Woah. This has amazing photography. I am blown away, as always.

Love the cinematic intro on this video.

1:56 "recreation of SLS system..." "recreation of Space Launch System system..."

Your KSP Content is super enjoyable.

Honestly the most amazing intro to a video I’ve ever seen.

NASA:Takes A Long And Expensive Time Too Develop The Rocket Matt:Fine I’ll Do It Myself

Matt, you know how you reassemble your one launch crafts, can you make a tutorial on how to actually pack a craft so it could be reassembled?

Really cool ststion!!!

Yay - miniseries! Looks good, can’t wait for MOAH!

not how i expected it to start... nice!

well this was worth the wait

Pls do more missions like that! It's so cool to see the transport vehicle return to Kerbin after setting up the station.

for these kind of videos (real missions representations) it would be pretty cool if you use the visual mod of "real plumes", it makes the engines look much more realistic and exciting

Matt when you said ok at the beginning I thought you were behind me I was so scared lol

Regarding that separation ring that you use, it's much easier if you just attach the engine of the second stage directly to the docking port of the module and then decouple the docking port when you want to separate. You can even right click the docking port in the VAB and enable staging on the docking port. That way there will be no separator in the way and Jeb doesn't have to get out and push.

Was just reading up on the Deep space gateway today!

The video equivalent might be "Groundhog Day" ? Another great KSP video

YEY NEW VIDEO !

4:13 that was so satisfying to watch. I don’t know what about it was so good but I just loved it.

that countdown is perfectly timed with the ad

Cool video

Wow I forgot how unlikely the Artemis program sounded back then. It’s so crazy seeing all these concept rockets and programs actually flying now like Orion/SLS still sound like concepts like they don’t fell real to me

17:47 Matt, you metagamed the metagame with your commentary.... LOL! XD

That intro was next level

I am tired as fuck at the moment but i do think that matt deserves the views, so i focus and watch the video!

The start made me say: ''Now this quality is what i've subscribed for.''

An ad shows up when the countdown goes to 0. you pulled a sneaky on us matt

Can you make a tutorial to create cinematics like you ? I love it !

Docking and reconfiguring while not even having a circularized orbit yet? Bold move, Cotton.

Back before I knew how to make manoeuvre nodes, I used to do mun missions without them all the time! I’m glad I know how to now, people don’t realise how important they are.

Ayo that discord squad! Love the videos, Matt. Keep up the fantastic work!

Awesome video! Please do make a mini-series involving Lockheed Martin / the Deep Space Transport. Also, wouldn’t your launcher look more like the latest SLS design if it used the orange tanks? This one as it is looks like some of the previous renders, resembling a Saturn V with SRBs.

good job on the roffis

1:57 “SLS system” Space Launch System system?

this is cool

As someone who is interested in space travel, I am so excited to see that gateway is on the horizon.

You should re do this now that we know more in detail about artemis!

hi matt. can you post a list from all the mods you use? important is also the setting and if possible the order you install them after an update. i tried SVE and EVE and everything but my clouds don't look that nice like in your videos :). I never changed the settings and configs of this mods (scatterer screen in the menu). probably ii have to change something :). thank you very much. greetings from switzerland & keep the cool ksp videos going :)

Matt you should do an updated version of this with the new artemis mission!

Je suis français et t'es vidéo sont les "best" :)

I liked the STS-134 footage at the beginning :)

I have an idea for a series, that the viewers show a rocket they have built. and then you're going to test how you can fly with it, and whether you can fly to a planet.

I noticed Jeb has to keep EVA to move the stack separator out of the way after separating the command module and the payload. Did you know that you can just use the docking port as a stack decoupler?

Best Video Ever of the moon

I love how Jeb just knocked the separator ring out of the way! Very Kerbal move!

Cool video man, but I have to ask: what graphics mods are you using?

Back in my day, burning prograde at munrise was just how you did it because maneuver nodes didn't exist.

Matt, how did you get those epic cinematics?

8:10 turning a ship around while an astronaut is on EVA is absolutely badass

Wow!

Hey just wondering, are you sure that the missions constructing it would be manned, I’m sure it would be more efficient to do it unmanned becuase you would have to include food, o2, and other such things

If anyone wanted to know about the video broken record trailing he went off on there is a video version of it. I know in audio cassette and eight tracks have a looped tape and I don't see why this could be done with a VHS tape though the player would have to slightly modified to keep from eating tape.

you forgot that russians are also gonna add a module

The DSG will be on a very eccentric orbit (Ap reching halfway to the edge of the SOI)

Yeah. The intro is magical. That was best intro ever. Even better than Blunderbirds

Would it be possible for you to use the Re-entry Particle Effect mod? It makes re-entry look much nicer .

DAMMMMMMMM THAT INTROOO

Cool video, I would recommend you spend more time on the sound of the video next time. The beginning had some double music and not very well equalized sound effects. Just a tip :) Keep up the videos!

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How are you so good I cant even get halfway to the mun

EPIK

The DSG will exist one day, no matter NASA's funding. It's just a matter of how long.

Hahaha watching Jebediah/Valentina EVA-ing to remove that separation ring was hilarious XD Go work for NASA/Space X Matt Lowne! Yes! Please do the mini-series!!! Why didn't you show a mission going to Mars, I mean Duna, while making use of your new space station? Would have been a nice way to demonstrate the purpose and usefulness of the space station you spent so much time building...

How is the mod called that displays these additional infos of e.g. Apoapsis ? :)

Matt: builds a space station around the mun Me: cant even build a station around kerbin

Nice use of spratrons as igniters

How did you sync the launch count down with the advertisements?

Coolest. Intro. Ever. On Earth. And space.

If you read this, can you make a Tutorial how to build the station (the modules) and the rocket?

Matt you brilliant genius!!! Can you provide a file of all your mods (including the visual enhancements and visual upgrades you did). I find getting all that installed is complicated and I don't 100% understand it. I want my game to look like yours because it is so amazing but I can't make it work.

I can only find the 1.2 version of environmental visual enhancements, where can I get the 1.3 version?

I think "Scratched DVD" would be the best kind of reference to that kind of medium you would get.

Hello i want to ask if it is easier to dock with other rockets at the moon ?

Can you redo this with the Making History Parts?

"Don't worry if you can't get it as close as I did, I've probably been playing longer than you." Matt gets closer than I can first try and I've been playing since the second update

1:33 congrats, you predicted the future

3:45 I’m having flashbacks to my old KSP days

Are Blue Origin even doing orbit class vehicles? I know they weren't a couple years ago because they were going for the parabolic arc thing for tourism. I haven't really followed them since they fell behind SpaceX a while ago.

6:29 If you look at the ground, you are flying by the old inland space centre, or "Baikerbanour"

You forgot the grabber on the end of the power module so that you can capture an asteroid and bring it to the DSG like it shows in the pic.