26 years in space. The Zarya Satellite Module is the core of the ISS every module connects to it.

My daddy hated astronauts. He always used to go to the bars where they would hang out and then start fights with them.

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This actually makes me wonder what docking system the space shuttle would have used. APAS-89 didn't come out until 1989 and the shuttle never got APAS until 1995.

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hi can i use this animation in my video to explain the s0 truss??, I'll credit for sure

Se ve más real está q la de los estadounidenses d 1969 jajaja jajaja esa del 69 me olio a película

The whole thing looks go good and you really get pulled into it. Until i heard the KSP staging sound. I was pulled straight out of the simulation.

i love these

9/11 Mission Basically Expedition 3 witnessed the Attacks from the ISS

By that time gagarin is already ded

Moon was easy for 1970s US in comparison to any try for Mars. Given 400,000 people worked on Apollo, with the investment of $250 billion in 2024 dollars, Mars would have been in the trillions. The moon has low gravity, and does not require much thrust in either landing or taking back off from the surface. Any emergency (like Apollo 13) you are three days from home. Exposure to radiation is again, just 6-8 days. Mars was impossible in the 70s, 80s, and maybe still today. Mars has substantial gravity. Any human crewed lander needs to land WITH the fuel to escape that gravity, and with the thin atmosphere there is zero room for error. The moon also was silicates. Nasty stuff when it gets in the works of things, but unless inhaled, poses no harm. Mars is laden with perchlorates and other harmful particulate matter, and is susceptible to blinding dust storms. Even a six month transfer to Mars would expose the crew to 30-50 times the radiation in going to the moon, and that would not end on the Marian surface or return journey. Let's' prove we can get the Perseverance sample tubes back before we even begin talking a human-crewed mission.

I love this "what if" science fiction. Nice story and very good visuals!

I dont know if it is just me why but why does Skylab look like windmill

What would you say if i had footage of this mission?

In my opinion, that station looks... ugly- in a good way!

What is the background music’s name?

What is this!? A history of the US space program for insomniacs?

Imagine having an experience no human being has ever had before !

Artifictial gravity on the iss

Look at it curving and crashing back into the ocean. Outer space is a fairytale people.

14:10 Klaus Dietrich Flade 💪🏼🇩🇪

Alternate ISS: dies Spacelab module: *IM SUPER MODULE!!!!!!!!*

5:19 module jumpscare

I just realized that in this timeline, with the Buran becoming fully operational there would be a possibility to see an American and Soviet shuttle docked to each other!

Rather late comment… why not modify the ISS with propulsion systems sent up from Earth and set up course towards Mars. People have lived on it for over six months. Plenty of room for provisions. Good to go !!

Where the Leonardo module?

The first orbital flight was in August 1961 by cosmonaut Gherman Titov. Gagarin's April flight was suborbital since the landing occured west of the launch point; that is not a full orbit.

I understood the heatshield hatch but never could get my head around how they got out of their seats to get to it. I guess with this CGI that included an escape tower instead of ejection seats, the “couches” could have been folded up. However, in the original Gemini Blue/MOL program this wasn’t the case.

The major flaw in this mission proposal was the Gemini heat shield would have needed significant (if not impossible) upgrade to withstand the reentry speed. Also note, in the Kerbal video, the Gemini didn't impact the water "end down" but "side down" since it wasn't float stable the way it’s shown.

Well that's the coolest lander I've ever seen.

I from Korea.

😅😂

10:10 what music?!?!

What’s up with constant music, it’s unbearable.

I had no idea of the Soviet close approaches and monitoring of Skylab. This is fascinating and I would love to learn more.

Congress, Jimmy Carter, and a hostile mass media killed any real space program as soon as Nixon left office. I remember Tiny Tim defending the space program while Johnny Carson parroted the cliche that "the money should be spent solving problems here on Earth". As Tiny Tim said, "there was poverty in the Middle Ages but it didn't stop them from building the cathedrals we can still appreciate today".

0:32 I didn’t know that Russian space stations can Tim travel

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has taught us the immense low quality of Russian manufacturing and engineering, all of it inherited from the old Soviet Union. In other words, Russians stuff is cheap. It turns out that sending humans to the moon is much, much more technically difficult than just putting Gagarin into low earth orbit. The Soviets lacked the engineering knowhow and the budgets to accomplish the gargantuan task of a human moon landing and it would not have mattered if Karolev had lived.

I will say though, even if the UK becomes the leading nation during the exploration of space in this alternate timeline, they would have serious competition with both the United States and the Soviet Union. Although to be fair, considering what the USSR was aiming for in the late 1940s/early 1950s, both the USA and UK would become allies in this alternate race to the Moon. But hey, that’s a story for another day.

15:39 Don’t think that’s realistic ngl…

During one or two (or more?) years in the 1960s, Nasa consumed 4.5% of the annual federal US budget. I wonder how much the percentage would have been for this crewed Mars program. 9% or more? The excuse for Apollo was the Space Race. I don't see this happening in the 1970s. Not without a scenario like in "'For All Mankind''. By the way Nasa receives only about 0.5% of the annual budget at the moment. I don't expect this to grow fast, even for Artemis (and of course with a little bit help from the private industry).

Bro why the first man on space is a woman kerbal lol

Imagine if we get to the 2010s and the Ares rockets were actually on track lol. Then we are gonna have some b!g@$$ modules

I feel awful for all the villagers that get long march boosters dropped on them filled with toxic propellants

Great videos, look forward to more

One of the best Series on Mir anywhere on the Internet. This should have Millions of views

Happy Birthday Destiny Lab 23 years in space as the home to our astronauts and experiments.

Problem is if it's done now, it'll be Elon. And you know he's gonna go there, crown himself Emperor of Mars, open up a Helium 3 mine and charge Earth through the nose for the stuff. If we squack too much, he's gonna build electromagnetic rail guns, and send tungsten rods down the gravity well at relativistic velocities toward places like Beijing, New York and Buenos Ares. It'll be a total shit show, with an egomaniacal billionaire overcompensating for the fact his dyslexic dad filled out his birth certificate wrong.