I Flew a Space Mission my Cats Made in KSP and it Was Incredible

I really enjoyed making this one! Even if people don't really see it, the KSP mission really made me feel like a kid again, doing all this nonsense. Enjoy!
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Thank you for watching! :)

[@dixieduffy7]

You are right. A sequel to KSP would be awesome. A sequel with something like multiplayer and interstellar travel would be amazing. Would probably go down with a GOTY contender like Helldivers II. Too bad they never did get around to making another.

[@macrossMX]

If the rumors are true, Dean Hall from Rocketwerkz of Stationeers fame has a space program game. Maybe we will get a KSP sequel from them somewhere in the future. But for now, let us all bask in the glory of KSP.

[@tlpenguin3758]

Wouldnt it just be great if it, idk, had some sort of early access, maybe an improved science system, maybe colonies(that might be a bit of a stretch), maybe then interstellar travel like you said, maybe even exploration things like a new solar system and mining system, and maybe even multiplayer like you also said. too bad we only have the first one

[@peachtea-ij8dn]

Kerbal space program 2 y'all are living under a rock

[@dixieduffy7]

The joke @@peachtea-ij8dn

[@caesar_cider2777]

@@peachtea-ij8dn the joke is that the studio behind ksp2 is shutting down because of corporate greed and impatience

[@egexbo1234]

kitty space program

[@shiyian]

28:18 SAY IT WITH ME: On a lonely planet, slowly spinning its way to damnation, amidst the incompetence and unpreparedness of lesser space programs, one team stands resilient against the herds! Putting their lives on the line to aid players who were previously unaware of the Quicksave option! Yes, it's the incredible adventures of Jebediah, and his crack team of Kerbonauts! They are... THE BLUNDERBIRDS! Saving the Kerbin race one stranded explorer at a time.

[@light_gladiator4047]

I can only imagine a colab between Messier and Matt Lowne

[@humptyPPG]

BLUDERBIRDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@nutmaster-gaming]

@@light_gladiator4047 bro that would be epic!

[@flamingpotato8906]

No way! a non-fly out video of great quality? splendid!

[@theorixlux2605]

Rare indeed /Joke

[@MrPeterheveran]

I'm fairly sure this is a similar system the Egyptians used when they let cats help them build the pyramids.

[@povelitel_shavermy]

True, i was the cat

[@genericuser984]

true, i was the pyramid

[@AfgonYT.]

I was thinking just yesterday “it would be so cool if Messier 82 made a ksp video”. My wish has been granted!

[@theorixlux2605]

Of course the engineer ignored drag when calculating delta v /J great video

[@blayas5239]

Messier, You must play Children of a dead Earth!!! CoaDe , the module editor is incredible!! I've never had so much fun -melting- studying fission reactors, propulsion systems, coilguns, railguns, lasers and even missile and ammunition payloads. One of the most realistic depictions of combat in space!, really an underrated gem among simulators/games of this genre, I really wish Dev would go back to keep developing it or make a successor!

[@AstroGamer_da_real]

THE CAT EMPIRE WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

[@oberonpanopticon]

The world?! This is kerbal space program! Kerbals/cats were born to inherit the stars!

[@xymaryai8283]

as long as we can still set sail on the river of, red reeed wine, if not we'll just have to Run run run run run, runrunrun run, runrunrun run, and have some fun fun fun fun fun, fufun fun fun, fufun fun fun, and then we'll drinkdrinkdrinkdrinkdrink, dridrink drink drink, dridrink drink drink, a toast to the Sun sun sun sun sun, sunsunsun sun, sunsunsun sun sun suuuuuun

[@AstroGamer_da_real]

@@oberonpanopticon that too

[@beimanuel942]

fun ssto tip: the more the intakes, the more the drag, plus 1 dart/ramp intake is able to power 4 - 6 RAPIER engines so less intakes = less drag and better ssto

[@CWEditOfficial]

10:52 "Really pushing the capabilities of the game." Stratzenblitz: *am I a joke to you?*

[@robertkiefer2030]

I'm watching this, and my cats are all, " Dad, why don't we have our own space program?", "Dad we wanna go to space", "Dad, build us our own rocket", "Dad, where's my rover?". Sheesh.

[@Chippys_comments]

Catlabs Space Agency: We found new employees!

[@sahelanthropus84]

was hoping you'd do this, nice

[@light_gladiator4047]

You should really do more KSP vidoes. Its super fun to watch (and fun to build at times.)

[@wowisthatleo]

This whole video is so silly and i love it

[@inkycat191]

saw cats, forgot what i was doing, immediately +1 view +1 like

[@detjen6403]

Described KSP as his favorite game as a kid and I suddenly felt my back give out, when did I get so old?

[@operatorrrr]

oooh pls do more ksp videos this was great!

[@capslfern2555]

dang, cats know aerospace engineering, who knows when they will learn how to open cans?

[@petersmythe6462]

I think your description of Minmus as a 10-15 km/s launch has a weird double standard built in where Kerbin has an atmosphere made of soup on the way up, and hard vacuum on the way down. In reality if you completely ignore the atmosphere and gravity losses, a low speed Minmus intercept is 3.2 km/s or so from Kerbin's equator. A landing and return to orbit on something very close to a free return trajectory is about 500 m/s. Theoretically slowing down at Kerbin is another 3.2. That's 6.9 km/s. Not 10 and certainly not 15. Now, you could argue that atmosphere losses hurt on the way up, but they definitely don't on the way down, If air is eating 300 m/s on the way up and gravity is eating another 300 m/s, then we need to recognize that air is saving us another 3000 m/s on the way down. We certainly should not just say that 3.2 turns into 3.8. It turns into 3.8 on the way up and 0.1 on the way down. So now our Minmus mission has gone to 4.4 km/s instead of 6.9 km/s due to atmosphere and gravity "losses."

[@messier82ac]

A bit, I did mention that I left out things such as aero-braking and accelerating through atmo, as my plane had an air-breathing mode and of course the ability to aero-brake and glide, I decided it was a little bit too complex to describe quickly, so gave my best approximation for the short time frame instead :). More or less the Delta-V calculation was more or less a "worst case scenario" graph and a way to categorize planets quickly to Bo instead of a true "required delta v" map.

[@heriek113]

holy shit, half an hour messier 82 ksp vid, i've been blessed today

[@thomwizardcat2133]

I think your spaceplane survived the Laythe entry bc of its thinner atmosphere, so i think you shouldnt worry about entering on that higher speed limit, id do some parallel testing to see the highest speed you can enter Laythe's atmosphere and now that im commenting, great video!!

[@TheRibbonFighter]

I tried recreating the FB-04 Halberd in KSP. Would love to see you recreate some of your flyout planes in KSP using Ferram (FAR) and BD armory.

[@connor3284]

Bo and Snickers might need to take up dieting!

[@TalkierSnail016]

LETS GO, Messier in his KSP arc

[@WyattPugh]

Ayour cats are going to become billionaires because of your success in the project.

[@louisenobiomoanor8371]

Imagine combining SPACE ENGINE and KSP together

[@soupcangaming662]

"And then I overwrote the save file again, destroying everything."

[@uwuowo8599]

4:21 I like your cat. Ambitious.

[@reverendbernfriedaxewielde8443]

Kudos to your cats. BTW could you recreate some fictional aircraft and see if they could actually fly? Like the famous MIG 31 Firefox from the movie f the same name. You seem very capable in that field.

[@oliverandom6808]

This is impressive, I never really got out of the mun system 😂 Also, I have a question. Have you heard of the Ferram Areospace mod for KSP? Apparently, it makes the areodynakic aspects of the wings and such more realistic, and I wonder how it compares to flyout in terms of realism

[@yuuzyerbrejn9603]

First step to Feline World Dominance has been taken! Amazing that you got it there, and safely landed, after the issues on approach. Well executed mission-save using neat ideas, that was some cool Apollo 13-type stuff.

[@lorenzoronchin8280]

OMG you just made me wanna play KSP again after over one year without playing it, thx

[@Depresdude]

Whoa. This is awesome

[@Aedeus]

This channel just proves that you want to grow on youtube... Put out fantastic quality content and add cats

[@boybogue1]

Bro that blueprint page graphic of your design is awesome, How did you do it?

[@moonwalkhi]

im honestly not surprised a flyout player would play ksp. most of us came from ksp anyway.

[@NoSTs123]

great vid btw.

[@AaditSharma-uc8lq]

you are most definitely more intelligent than 90% of youtube info channels 🙃

[@Amelia-mq6hm]

I was literally thinking the other day "I wonder when Messier will make another KSP video"

[@wowisthatleo]

this WOULD make a good movie

[@StevoE26]

i am thoroughly shocked you don't have ferrum aerospace installed!

[@eekee6034]

M82: "By walking through any of these dividers, [the cats] would be choosing a decision." Me: _Wondering what happens __-if-__ when the cats will play with the string instead._ They didn't. 😥Oh well! Bo chooses the heavy rover -- a cat after my own heart. 😺 "...as they requested to film *on-site*." I see what you did there! 🤣 Finally! I understand why my spaceplanes always need wing area forward of where I expect. Thanks for the explanation. You need to learn how to capture at Jool with a gravity assist from Tylo. It's not hard, and it saves so much delta-V that 2200m/s in LKO is plenty. In fact, with that much, I was able to correct for a very bad Jool capture and reach Laythe on my first attempt. Still, it's always good to see a thunderously awesome rocket like that! An overwritten save file _and_ craft files? Ouch! Things like this are why I want a versioning file system. I miss Windows 10 which let you add any folders you liked to File History; Win11 is very restricted in that regard. I forgot to worry when you were fitting solar panels to vehicles bound for the Jool system. I haven't played the game in too long. ;) Rescuing a craft which was basically slingshotted by Jool? That could be a wild orbit! There is something about KSP which makes me feel like a kid again too, even though I didn't get KSP until I was in my 40s. ;)

[@Osaka_Ai]

We need the rescue mission 😂 honestly, nuclear power is important for ksp, and it is expensive, so messier build an even bigger nuclear rocket to catch it back(speaking story already)

[@FaizanMughal-lk5ee]

Finally he upload

[@draftymamchak]

One of those intakes can feed up to 3 R.A.P.I.E.R. engines.

[@lcasbdr254]

babe wake up,messier posted a ksp video

[@IsaacAllwood]

Can't believe KSP never got a sequel, I always thought the game had potential ya know? But I suppose at the very least we didn't get a bad sequel. Like can you imagine? That would be ROUGH.

[@SinnerD2010]

SSTO: Single Stage to Orbit. Dumped SRBs count as staging, which means you failed this fundamental portion of the mission. I can't believe you would do such a thing to your cats. Put up a decision divider to determine your fate immediately. 🤣

[@draftymamchak]

That isn’t a space station, that is a propulsion module.

[@modhistory]

Hello, Messier 82 I was wondering if we are going to continue that development of aircraft series or not Thanks,

[@tetronaut88]

Epic! (Where's the modpack link?)

[@rockco-iv8es]

>"Plane would have to be huge, at least by KSP standards." >Only 280 tonnes.

[@eekee6034]

Yeah, but Kerbal plane size is like human stupidity: There is no actual limit. ;) I just came here from watching a spaceplane with a 2,300 ton payload. The thing was put on the runway at 3:30AM real time, and didn't reach orbit until after 7AM; it was that laggy.

[@user-rs3jn1sg9z]

Pretty sure he meant ´huge´ as in large in measurements of length, not weight. You can say that your cardboard fort is huge, eventho it doesn´t weigh much.

[@eekee6034]

@@user-rs3jn1sg9z That makes sense, but lenth-ways, it's actually close to the smallest a Kerbal Mk3 SSTO can be! It's only about 2/3 the length of my first successful SSTO and carries about the same number of kerbals. (Edit: I mis-remembered the length; it's still shorter, but not 2/3rds.) Its width is perhaps slightly greater and it has a similar number of engines. Granted, my first successful SSTO is also the longest plane I've ever successfully launched, :) but that's because I've been experimenting with smaller SSTOs. I've seen _far_ bigger from other players. There is another point of view though. The Mk3 parts are the same diameter as rocket parts the game describes as "huge", so it's made from huge parts.

[@Buttered_Charcoal]

very clever way of adding taylor swift in there lmao

[@JeanYossa]

This is genius

[@ThatStingrayGuy]

"these poor green men and woman" -Messier 82 (2024)

[@andrewreynolds912]

The best kitty designers

[@quoniam426]

Did you perform a Tylo gravity breaking maneuver to spend less delta-V. I do it every time I go there to leep as much delta V as I can for other maneuvers. Tylo is approx the mass of Kerbin so it can slingshot you in or out of Jool SOI quite easily. Laythe atmosphere is less dense than Kerbin and its gravity is inferior too, meaning that if your spacecraft handles a hard Kerbin reentry, it can handle a Laythe hard reentry since it will suffer less forces overall, although you might do one more pass to stay into the atmosphere if your aim was too high at first.

[@Flipdagoose]

this thing looks straight like something out of ace combat ngl

[@beimanuel942]

arkbird 2 just dropped

[@idkwhatimadoing8185]

love that the into was the m82 galaxy wich is funny cuz thats ur youtube name

[@benbowles]

Cute Cat videos are back on KZbin and better. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

[@quantum-powered-cat]

it is now the catto space program

[@AstroGamer_da_real]

YAY A NEW VID!

[@Rakso641]

Love your videos, but when will be the next video where you build a plane for United Federation of Bo?

[@messier82ac]

Actively working on it as we speak

[@Rakso641]

​@@messier82ac thank you, you have also inspired me to make flyout videos

[@unchartedpotato2918]

Don't know if it would be easy or not, but it would be cool if you built a plane that uses both propellers and jet engines for forward thrust

[@gearandalthefirst7027]

0:18 I mean, you certainly COULD call it that. I have literally no idea WHY you would want to associate it with that, though.

[@liamben7286]

Wdym cats all I see are highly qualified aerospace engineers with whiskers.

[@humptyPPG]

matt lowne collab 👀

[@Frieze_XD]

3:04 I swear to god I spent way too long trying to find out if tape was actually an acronym.

[@toanethos8804]

Can anyone tell me what the music playing during the launch is? Shazam hasn't been able to find it for me

[@Neuttah]

Didn't Vanilla KSP add a fuel dumping valve at some point? Probably would've been handy for the oxidizer thing.

[@JustADuck66]

NEW KSP VIDEOOOO

[@My_initials_are_O.G.cuz_I_am]

Hairball space program.

[@_blood_moon_proto_1500]

*meanwhile i still cannot do a proper launch, let alone an ssto or kraken drive*

[@Ilikemycat2137]

Cool

[@seifhassan5549]

Build......build a futurestic AC-130.

[@user-di9cp6ov2c]

Fly into the sun

[@petersmythe6462]

I wonder about making the same plane in heavily modded KSP (e.g. realism overhaul) and Fly out. There are definitely some things that modded KSP does better (e.g. aero) and some things that Fly Out does better (e.g. hull and wing shape customization).

[@ukraine_supporter_777]

For hull and wings, there are some procedual parts mods for ksp there is also a part painting mod

[@adirmugrabi]

the srb were the first stage. meaning it was not an SSTO!

[@girl_twink]

23:05 the korolev hashtag

[@thepatrioticpole2269]

This is how taylor swift produces all the emissions

[@goose9310]

Day 1 of asking Messier to build a XB-70

[@lcasbdr254]

hey,messier! could you please provide me the modpack you use on your gaem

[@MIIRBH]

have you heard of the first cat in space?

[@DrWhom]

was is a cos moas?

[@commanderghost309]

How do he make it look so easy?

[@safeish57]

rip ksp2

[@AbstractObserver]

"one of my favorite games since I was a kid" FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@Abeezer_53]

man did a full on research on the harmfulness of sulfur just to say that the Kerbal guys have no problems and its ez for them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kreiker8902]

How DARE you say Bo is dependent on you! Bo is clearly the most independent cat this world has ever seen. You are hereby sentenced to a year of giving Bo nothing but treats and pets.

[@darksars3622]

HE UPLOADED

[@darksars3622]

wait rong guy

[@super_loaf2]

i like bo and snickers

[@Speed_Walker]

Well

[@ukraine_supporter_777]

No way he played ksp

[@energonow]

Hyper sonic bi plane

[@hegamingbestgamers110]

catt lowne

[@Verza.CH.]

now make it in flyout

[@user-vt2eq9ot7q]

I have a cat named snickers

[@perish5442]

day 77 of asking spookston to ply the XM-1 GM its so fun to play like a light tank