KSP | Far Future Mission to Saturn | RSS/RO

Merry christmas! Another year has passed and I'm back with a new video. This time we visit Saturn on a mission that is considerably bigger in scope than the last one. Eventhough Saturn is almost twice as far away from the Sun as Jupiter, the crew is back on Earth less than 3 years after launch, no refueling necessary at Saturn. Compared to the 6 years on the mission to Jupiter, that truly shows the potential of advanced propulsion technologies like fusion rockets for crewed missions to the outer solar system.
Some screenshots of the mission in high(er) quality:
imgur.com/a/M4xqHrx
Check out this KSP mission to Saturn with Apollo-era technology by @Katniss218 :
• KSP | 'Othrys' Program...
MODS (not a complete list):
- Kerbal Space Program 1.10.1 + Breaking Grounds Expansion
- Realism Overhaul + RSS (obvious)
- EVE + Scatterer + RSSVE + TUFX (nice visuals)
- Waterfall (better engine plumes)
- Far Future Technologies (fusion engine, spherical fuel tanks)
- Stockalike Station Parts Expansion Redux (crew parts on interplanetary spacecraft)
- Mk-33 (X-33 inspired crew vehicle)
- Kerbal Atomics (nuclear engines on crew vehicle)
- Planetside Exploration Technologies (rover and base parts)
- Near Future Launch Vehicles (large stage 1 fuel tanks and big cargo bays)
- KerBalloons Reinflated (inflatable balloon on crew vehicle)
- Near Future Construction (structural parts)
- Near Future Spacecraft (big command pod on Enceladus lander)
- Heat Control (radiators)
- Modular Launch Pads (obvious)
- ReStock (better models and textures for stock parts)
- Docking Port Alignment Indicator (better docking UI)
- KK + RSS-CanaveralHD (real cape canaveral terrain and buildings)
- SSTU (J-2X, AJ10 engines)
- SXT (RCS on extendable boom)
- Persistent Thrust (use low thrust engines during time warp)
- KIS + KAS (EVA construction + fuel pipes)
- Camera Tools (moving/stationary camera for cool shots)
- Real Scale Boosters (large fairing halves)
- Kerbal Reusability Expansion (legs on large first stage)
- Tundra Exploration (large grid fins and raptor engines)
In case I missed something, please write a comment down below and I'll add it to the list!
Usual disclaimer: I made a lot of custom configs and plumes for parts from these mods, so don't expect everything in your install to behave or have the same performance as you see in this video.
Timestamps:
0:00 Spacecraft Launch
3:07 Crew Launch
5:06 Flight to Saturn
8:05 Titan
17:11 Enceladus
20:27 Return to Earth
MUSIC:
KZbin Audio Library:
Strauss - Blue Danube
Music by @RossBugden (seriously, check out his channel, he makes some amazing music):
The following tracks are licensed under a ‘Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License’. You can find the link to that license here: creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Ross Bugden - Flight Hymn ( • ♩♫ Epic and Dramatic M... )
Ross Bugden - Run ( • ♩♫ Epic Chase Music ♪♬... )
Ross Bugden - Ghiblis Waltz ( • ♩♫ Classical Piano and... )
Ross Bugden - Parallel ( • ♩♫ Epic and Emotional ... )
Ross Bugden - Ascension ( • ♩♫ Inspiring and Uplif... )
Ross Bugden - Interstellar ( • ♩♫ Emotional and Inspi... )

[@Explosivefox109]

Virgin: Expendable lander Chad: Reusable lander Wizard: B A L L O O N

[@Gdcat1472]

Old man: balloon AND house

[@theerandomdude2375]

The engineer: space elevator

[@40watt53]

Gigabrain: Just don't leave.

[@ethanbrown4656]

Thad: Debug console

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Gad: TELEPORTING

[@KerbalSpaceProgramOfficial]

Well done! We enjoyed watching this!

[@NessusKSP]

Thank you so much! And thanks for making such an amazing game, I'm looking forward to KSP 2 ;)

[@Gdcat1472]

How did THE ksp comment this!? Im impressed

[@CallsignAegis]

Wow

[@aslamstudio558]

1. Why does this only have 4 replies when im watching this?! 2. Well done, you watched your game grow 3. When is KSP2 coming out?

[@KerbalHub]

oh my god

[@Kohl293]

“Getting this ISRU to work on Titan will be quite difficult.” *throws fuel line into ocean* “Okay everyone, back in the ship.”

[@40watt53]

Actually yeah wouldn't Titan be a good refueling destination, if chemical rockets would still be used at a time when you could do that?

[@leriku2270]

@@40watt53 for lifting off and putting things into orbit yes, theyre good at that

[@leriku2270]

@@40watt53 I'm very sure chemical rockets would still exist by the time we get around colonising the outer solar system. Currently they're the best for launching things into orbit, I doubt we'd develop anything better for that job in the next 100 years ( i may be wrong), plus Methane is quite easy to find in our solar system so it makes for a sensible fuel option. And no before you ask nuclear engines are a very bad idea for launching stuff, in space YES theyre great, launching fuck no:D

[@leerman22]

It uses nuclear thermal propulsion so yeah. If it needed oxygen ice is essentially rock there and they already have a nuclear reactor.

[@JordanMSeverns]

*ignites engine and catches entire planet on fire*

[@annabellefawn4171]

I am suddenly struck with the profound significance of returning to earth after 2.6 years. Not only are you finally returning home, to where everyone you've ever known is, but there's a sense of ennui there. 2.6 years is an entire chapter of your life. That station, and maybe those bases, will have become it's own home to you. It's just like any change that comes with life I suppose. The heartbreaking totality of moving your life somewhere new, or returning to where you once knew. It is a wildly esoteric and yet intensely familiar situation.

[@stirlinghall6593]

This is exactly how I felt

[@stickfigure31]

I believe I recall reading somewhere that the command leader of Apollo 17 said some along the lines of "People talk about living and work on the moon, but I did you know I had a job and I had a house..." he was much more reflective on the experience then his partner who realized since it was the last Apollo mission and time was short he had to focus on the tasks at hand as there wasn't going to be another chance to get this scientific data.

[@stardolphin2]

@@SD352-68 Which is why it won't be done with *current* (that is, chemical) propulsion... Even solid-core nuclear-thermal won't cut it for that distance. It'll have to be gas-core NTRs at least, maybe nuclear salt water rockets, or if possible, fusion (I don't expect any amendments to the Outer Space Treaty that would allow nuclear pulse). Scott Manley took an interesting look at this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3a9p5KFjaaShKs

[@Harold-TheJass-Blingman]

although it is long, its LEAGUES shorter than if the craft used a standard Saturn transfer

[@i_eat_water69]

and i am stuck thinking how this monstrosity of a ship turns

[@Stratzenblitz75]

Gorgeous mission and video! The shots around Saturn are the most stunning I've seen in a ksp video. I'm a fan

[@baddgeeksquad]

U are real u can be verified

[@therobot1080]

The biggest honor a ksp video can get: Stratzenblitz commenting

[@phoenix0166]

@@therobot1080 indeed

[@joshbridges8410]

I haven't seen a cinematic KSP video of this higher quality since Maccollo's RSS Venus mission: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hX-zap2JZpmnpac Really touched the sweet spot for me.

[@DarksoldierX2]

Whoa! This guy commented here!

[@MarcusHouse]

Hell yes!

[@paboman3878]

Hello

[@chetannagdeve7522]

Hello Mr Marcus big fan from India

[@mirguel1367]

hello marcus, i love your videos, hello from brazil

[@111danish111]

Hey heyy

[@doconnell188]

give this guy a shout out on Saturday Marcus!

[@irbengimz5489]

That awkward moment when this looks leagues better than KSP2…

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

Ksp2 is more of a cartoon ish game, and I like it that way, as it makes it more approachable for people new to space stuff. However, I bet mods will come out to make it look stunning

[@madzak9847]

@@AHHHHHHHH21 I tried to play ksp2 on start of access , and tired yesterday .back then, and now I struggling to put a simple rocket to the moon and it soo laggy sometimes, interface looks familiar but something wrong and it seems much harder to craft the same stuff …

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

@@madzak9847 was talking about the visuals, not the gameplay

[@askeladden450]

​@@AHHHHHHHH21visuals aren't what makes anything approachable. Its the gameplay. And the fact that ksp2 runs like garbage on a big chunk of consumer hardware destroys any idea of 'approachability'.

[@johnsteiner3417]

**NASA engineers and mission planners furiously taking notes in background**

[@yesseru]

Some of these technologies are only theoretically possible, so don't get your hopes up.

[@johnsteiner3417]

@@yesseru Same was true of rockets. Don't be a naysayer. People declaring what's impossible should step aside from the people making it work.

[@yesseru]

@@johnsteiner3417 That's exactly my point, they were theoretical, but now they are standard and have been improved upon for years tot he point where we can't imagine a world without them.

[@johnsteiner3417]

@@yesseru But for congress it could've happened in the 1990s. Look up Skylon by a UK company, Reaction Engines.

[@francisjones7940]

Funny thing is, most of the issues preventing us from actually doing this is budgetary, the technology is basically there already, we just don't have the money to actually do it.

[@kerbinsphere]

every christmas he gives us presents, petition for nessus to be the new santa claus

[@idkanymore6897]

This is something that KSP2 will hopefully have in terms of rocketry and parts, absolutely beautiful looking! UPDATE: looks like KSP 2 will have some futuristic stuff, considering the developer of FFT is on their team, KSP 2 may not come with stuff like this in the base game but mods will definitely bring this and alot more update 2: ksp 2 sucks update 3: ksp 2 might come back, for science update is pretty good

[@mathewferstl7042]

hopefully

[@greenme770]

And graphic

[@ArcXDZ]

@Dũng Papercrafter "would have"

[@idkanymore6897]

@@ArcXDZ if they follow through with their promises unlike every other game

[@ArcXDZ]

@@idkanymore6897 huh I don't remember writing this comment but yeah, I'm optimistic that KSP2 will be one of the best simulators yet

[@juliannolastname2442]

This is so creative! The use of the balloon and heli-rover on Titan threw me for a loop, I had no idea they were coming. I could tell every inch of this mission was meticulously planned out, and I love it!

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

Fun fact: Titan is the second most habitable body in the solar system. This is, for the most part, because the atmospheric pressure on Titan is so high that you wouldn't need a full space suit to take a walk on its surface, though you should pack your best winter clothes, as the average surface temperature comes in at around -182°C, and you'd still need an oxygen mask to breathe on Titan, as its atmosphere is not breathable to humans. However, due to the high surface pressure, you would not need a pressure suit to breathe there, provided the oxygen mask outputs the right pressure.

[@222cubing8]

it would be too pressurized

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

@@222cubing8 The pressure in and off itself would not be a problem. What is important for breathing is that 1: You get a certain pressure of oxygen, and 2: You get a certain percentage of it past some amount of pressure While our lungs are not made for 1.4 atmospheres, if you do the math, it does work out.

[@warcrimeswilly631]

Actually, Venus is more habitable in the upper atmosphere where you would only need and oxygen mask and a plastic suit for acid protection, assuming you are standing on a floating vessel

[@TheDennys21]

How would you not need a space suit at -182?

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

@@TheDennys21 Well, while you probably would need a suit that covers your full body and has active heating to not freeze to death after more than a few minutes, you wouldn't need a full on space suit. The reason you need one on the Moon is that the Moon is in a vacuum. This makes it impossible for you to breathe, even if you have an oxygen mask, because the pressure difference is too big. Your lungs couldn't move the air around, even if there was enough of it for you to breathe, because the pressure difference between the inside of your lung and the outside of your chest would be too big. However, Titan's atmosphere is dense enough that, provided you had an oxygen mask designed for the enviornment, you very much could breathe there, so you wouldn't need a full on pressure suit. Furthermore, any coverings over your face you would need would mostly be to prevent frostbite from liquid hydrocarbon (which, by the way, it rains on Titan), but the atmosphere itself doesn't contain any irritating gases, so you could do without for some time if you had to.

[@MrAchterbahnfahrer]

Yay, he's back! No wonder this video took so long if the mission duration is literally 2.6 years :D By the way: Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone reading this comment.

[@dbneptune]

Same to you! 🎄

[@wyldcat9396]

You too buddy!

[@pricelessppp]

Thank you mate!

[@phoenix0166]

As to you my friend

[@jaypaint4855]

With traditional engines (he used a fusion engine for the main ship) this same mission would take around 17 years to complete. 8 years one way from Earth to Saturn and 8 years back

[@lolmom6839]

If you zoom enough, you can see the Endurance arriving at saturn too

[@will2brown50]

I always loved that scene from interstellar

[@lolmom6839]

@@will2brown50 It made you feel small and insignificant

[@hubbletrubble7875]

where an when

[@lucalis032]

When?

[@technoquetz126]

@@lucalis032 it’s a joke, and if they left at the same time the endurance would have arrived like 8 months earlier and gone through the wormhole already, because the journey to Saturn was 22 months long, so a little under 2 years, while the trip in the video took 2.6 years Edit: actually nvm I now see the entire mission including the return lasted 2.6 years, so they would have arrived way before the endurance

[@hyped-ignis]

7:43 it looks like that scene from interstellar. Epic work.

[@CambleDCS]

This has to be the most impressive KSP mission I've ever seen. So elaborate and we'll edited. Well done

[@phyrexd4365]

This is one of the most well thought out, designed, and executed missions I’ve ever seen in KSP. Congrats!

[@chonkycat6225]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqC8eaSdd5eCp8k

[@jaypaint4855]

You may like this one then! This mission actually visits every major moon of Saturn. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWKUpn6ViK2bmdk

[@mikedavis5644]

I'm still so amazed what people can get done in kerbal. One of the greatest games of all time.

[@UNSCPILOT]

The talent of the modding community especially is just jaw dropping, some of the amazing things they make possible is awe-inspiring

[@mariasirona1622]

That centrifuge deployment was beautiful, almost organic...

[@MiG-25IsGOAT]

Oh look! A rover! So weird solar panels... *Rover starts flying*

[@space_powder]

absolutely love the shot at 16:08 of this massive thing just being gracefully lifted up by a balloon

[@Mike-oz4cv]

I’m pretty sure it’s unrealistic. Titan has a dense atmosphere and lower gravity than Earth but still this balloon doesn’t look nearly voluminous enough to displace several tons of atmosphere (especially to rise up to 60km).

[@Furyfire520]

You would be surprised how little it can take, I designed a 200ish gram “boat” out of a single sheet of tinfoil and it could carry up to 1.299 kilos

[@40watt53]

@@Mike-oz4cv Bro, this is a sixth the gravity and 1.5x the atmosphere. That balloon is certainly enough.

[@Mike-oz4cv]

@@40watt53 Good point, does this mean you need like 9 times less balloon volume? That’s still only a factor of 2.1 for the balloon diameter thanks to the square cube law.

[@CASA-dy4vs]

When the math is mathing: this comment section

[@43Jodo]

Wow! Finally got the time to sit down and watch after Christmas madness. What a great follow-up to your previous video. Some thoughts: -I love the VentureStar-esque crew launch vehicle. Making it compatible with both Earth and Titan launch is an elegant solution. -So cool to see the inflatable-headshield interstage, blunt body upper stage reentry vehicle concept. The ITS-inspired(?) booster is neat too. -300 days to Saturn: wow. Ain't fusion fun! -A helicopter rover is exactly the right kind of madness that only a Titan mission can make people come up with. Such an alien-looking design. -The balloon-launched Titan ascent was a similar moment. Anything is possible on Titan it seems lol -I also laughed at the presentation of the Enceladus mission. After a 4 month stay in comparative luxury on possibly the most fun and interesting body in the solar system, I'm sure I wouldn't be too broken up about "just" taking a quick flags-and-footprints jaunt like that. I don't know to what extent you head-cannon this stuff, or if it's based on real concepts/research like the Jupiter mission was, but I wanted to ask- do you envision this architecture as doing the first crewed missions to Saturn, or is it a later/more mature design? Do you think this is a late 2000s mission or 2100s? Is the transfer vehicle capable of crew missions to Uranus/Neptune (with modifications), or do you envision starting from a clean slate if you ever pursue missions like those? Thanks for the wonderful content. Hope to see more from you in the future.

[@fork9001]

Probably early 2100s. But by then there would be sufficient infrastructure in the outer solar system so something like this could be used to transfer heavier payloads to anywhere in the solar system.

[@NessusKSP]

Thanks for your thoughts! There was definitely some head-cannon involved in making this, it would be pretty dumb to land on such an interesting moon like Enceladus and just plant a flag, just imagine another month of science on the surface :D The main technological hurdles are obviously the engine and fusion fuel storage, I'm certainly not a qualified person to talk about this but I would guess a mission like this is at least 100 years in the future (the HOPE study also proposed a fusion option using magnetized target fusion with similar performance to the engine in this video). I do hope we don't have to wait 100 years to see humans at Saturn, a mission with less payload (maybe only landing on Enceladus) would certainly be possible with the technology from my last video. Since the spacecraft itself comes back to Earth in one piece and the transfer time is only one year, I could see this as the beginning of regular missions to Saturn to build a larger colony, maybe even with people living permanently on Titan.

[@therealist3495]

@@NessusKSP Assuming SpaceX starts sending people to Mars in 2031 (relatively conservative but a little optimistic too), and Starship launch cost gets down to low single digit millions (possible even without rapid reusability (although I think they will achieve that eventually within the next 5-10 years), just have to have a large fleet of fully reusable rockets), I think we will see an unprecedented growth of the "space economy". Assuming this happens, its reasonable to imagine there could be a decently sized colony at Mars by 2050 (anywhere between tens of thousands to around a hundred thousand people possibly). Once you have a colony at Mars with tens of thousands of people, you could go from there to Ceres and from Ceres to Jupiter and so on. That kind of development would probably put any first humans to Saturn sometime in the 2070s-2090s I imagine. Another way of getting to Saturn potentially much sooner in the future is if plasma magnet sails are used, which could be feasible if the launch costs lower enough that testing them by non-government/non-profit groups becomes feasible. In that case I think people could go to Saturn by the 2050s.

[@0202pmurT]

@@fork9001 NTR Isp is inversely proportional to molar mass after decomposition. LCH4 decomposes to HCx radicals and hydrogen/protons at NTR temperatures so you get 60-80% of LH2 performance without the retarded headaches that come along with LH2 handling.

[@fork9001]

I wouldn’t consider Titan to be the most interesting and fun body, that would be earth. Titan would be next though.

[@TheLoganatorz]

This is one of the coolest KSP videos I've seen. 2.6 years with near(ish) future tech, really awesome to see a realistic Saturn mission play out

[@EntropianVFX]

Absolutely astonishing. I really, reallllllly like the immense attention to detail and cinematicness while retaining the hard logistics of the mission. I probably should go pick up my jaw from the basement...

[@liquidhype3025]

This has to be one of the coolest KSP videos I've watched in a while. Well done!

[@edineis271ney7]

I did not understand

[@rolandmine6693]

@@edineis271ney7 wdym

[@TTancevat]

Wow. Just. WOW! I got KSP for Christmas last year, and have fallen in love with the immensely prosperous opportunities the game presents the playerbase. This is a shinning example of what can be accomplished. Not only is the gameplay beyond anything I could dream of making, but it is seamlessly edited and was a delight to watch. Keep up the amazing work, and I hope Nasa, SpaceX, Firefly, or some other space organization hires you. Keep up the good work!

[@awesomeguygaming4702]

yes

[@pumpkinh3d286]

He doesn’t own ksp 😂😂😂

[@TTancevat]

@@pumpkinh3d286 wat?

[@bailey2517]

Ksp is absolutely meaningless if you're trying to become an actual aerospace engineer or something in the rocket science field. Sorry to break it to you. I was a very good ksp player, went to uni for aerospace engineering and flunked out. Never went to a party, never once drank or did drugs, I studied more than anyone in my hall (no seriously, I studied like 5 hours a day), got a tutor for calculus, but I was a terrible test taker and could not get good grades no matter what.

[@TTancevat]

@@bailey2517 Dude, you arent supposed to take it literally. You would have to be an idiot if you think that a video game can get you a job at NASA lmao. This just seems like an excuse to target your vent at someone else.

[@thetruestwaffle47]

man you are criminally underrated. This is some fantastic film making, your projects are so well edited and your style of presentation is incredible. love your content, keep it up mate.

[@Venture5002]

Never thought I needed a venture star strapped to the top of a starship booster until now. Great work!

[@dsch0]

A VentureStar lifting off from the surface of Titan carried on a gigantic balloon...

[@znatrix]

The long awaited return… Amazing work!

[@43Jodo]

"Considerably bigger scope than [the Jupiter mission]" Woah. Can't wait to watch! Thanks for the upload.

[@ronan452]

Everyone's a gangster until the NASA rover prototype starts flying

[@Warangelord]

У меня нет слов, дух захватывает от увиденного. Храни тебя Господь!

[@vikyailb6978]

Да уж , классный мультик !)

[@jfellmet]

Blown away by all the work that had to go into this. The mods, the great framerate, with the mods. The amazing textures and detail and the great shots to explain the mission. Thank you for spending the time to do this!

[@jwandel]

Amazing! I would go as far as to say I’m even more impressed by the editing than the gameplay itself. But even that was just phenomenal. It brought a smile to my face when the little helirover lifted off the ground along with On the Beautiful Blue Danube. Great video!

[@AresWalker8]

Hnestly this was astounding. The sound, the scope and scale, the planning, everything. Its otherworldly yet so familiar.

[@Nerdy_Chef]

Amazing!!! A simple 'Like' could not justify the appreciation I have for the amount of efforts that not only went into creating the vehicles and conducting the mission, but to also create an amazing video from the captured footage is absolutely Above and Beyond. Great Job

[@knightofsaintjohn9345]

Absolutely beautifully made. The Craft, the mission, the visuals... It felt Zen and Epic at the same time. I already knew you were a great modder, but watching your videos kind of makes me doubt you're a real person. How can you be this good at everything :D Happy Holidays o/

[@periodificationateifierscandal]

This is really impressive! Far Future tech, let alone Near Future tech is so hard to work with, especially considering you’re doing this on RO/RSS! Well done!

[@cgbreeki849]

I can't express how gorgeous all of this is. Stunning visuals, beautiful soundtrack, phenomenal editing. What a masterpiece of a video. Huge props to the mod creators, the creators of KSP, and to you who made the craft, the voyage and the making of the video.

[@PiwyLC]

This is the most well planned, elaborate, perfectly designed mission i've ever seen on KSP, good job mate.

[@thefurballs]

Man, finnaly he uploaded video we waited almost 2 years.

[@JokubasVas]

Absolutely incredible video! The music was really well thought out too and helped the video a lot. Also, didn't expect that enceladus mission, great job!

[@AshenElk]

Thank you so much for including all the mods you've used. This video was gorgeous.

[@alexchivilev]

Great job! Both mission itself and camera work was stunning! And really cool spacecrafts.

[@Gdcat1472]

Ur saturn video is impressive

[@2k7u]

This is exactly what i want to see possible stock in KSP 2, and I love that realistic skybox!

[@chrisl2652]

Wow. I think that’s really cool. I think it’s especially interesting how the secondary stage could be recovered and how the first stage looked a lot like it’s from a SpaceX rocket.

[@antaljani]

It is just genius! I love this film, I would watch more of this kind of films. Beautiful editing, nice execution of the mission, well prepared. Please, make more video like this. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year as well!

[@nuclearkid3000]

Loved the unique way you did the large station. Loved that you used rovers to connect the modules on the Titan base, and having a helicopter included. Also I really enjoyed the video editing. Very unique and clever on it all. Always enjoy your KSP creations

[@chrisgaming9567]

This absolutely exceeded my expectations ^-^ I hope you do more

[@Space_Reptile]

first i watch the JWST launch, then this masterpiece a good day for space fans

[@yesseru]

Im crying of joy watching these visuals, my PC is crying of pain trying to render it.

[@reconab12]

This video was amazing. Not only due to the fact that it looks completely different from what KSP normally looks like and looks amazing while doing it. Not only because you synced some of the actions with the music. Not only because it was so cool to watch. But because it was just a stunning mission to watch (plus everything I said before). Well done Nessus, I will be looking forward to watching more of your video's.

[@Rhysman30]

Fantastic. Your execution of streamlined designs, parts, and modularity would make an actual NASA project manager proud. Now that you have that BEAST in orbit, you can use it for more and more missions!

[@ryuk5673]

This is already one of my all time favorite KSP videos

[@TechnoBillyD]

Wow Very Inpressive. I can't imagine the amout of work and planning you put in to this. Just amazing. I wish KSP looked like that when I played it many, many years ago. Eye candy adds so much to the sim. It is one thing to get all the mechaniics right, but then seeing those amazing views of Earth in your vid especially on the return trip, was incredible. Very Emotive.

[@joelpetersen2480]

I´ve seen many KSP videos. But this one is by far the most outstanding piece of engineering, planning and calculation i´ve ever seen. Well done Nessum, well done.

[@laurenclouse801]

This was like watching a movie! Truly one of the greatest ksp videos I’ve ever seen

[@antoinetruchot1239]

Insane design and cinematography, good job !!!

[@BadTeacherUA]

This! Is! Nuts! Both mission logistics/execution and video editing is fantastic. I wish more videos like that to be in the main school programs (as well as KSP).

[@therandals]

I just got round to watching this; absolutely beautiful! Thank you for creating this marvelous video! 👌👍

[@BeamiestOak]

I am in a loss for words. Absolutely stunning!

[@oliveronody1746]

Hoooowwww did you done this?! This was incredible!!!!!!! I've never seen anyting like that in my whole KSP carrier!!! You gained another subscriber!

[@Sir_Amu]

Thats one of the most beautiful KSP movies I've seen, with good background music. Just amazing what you did there

[@krikol_77]

What a tremendous mission ! Congrats for making this incredible KSP movie ! The spaceship reminds me of the "Pegasus" spacecraft from the documentary "Space Odyssey : Voyage To The Planets" but without a shield.

[@TheOwenMajor]

Absolutely wonderful. I could totally see this as CGI for a professional hard sci-fi show.

[@xnoob7557]

This is so epic! i'm watching it 5 times and still it's so cool :)

[@YuriDrood]

Honestly the music makes the perfect combination with the scenes from the video, you deserve more than that my ksp friend!

[@maybeonastick]

This is absolutely beautiful and makes me even more excited for the future. Thank you!

[@_sadnight_]

A great cinematography experience, good job men

[@adamorme66]

This channel is the very definition of QUALITY over QUANTITY

[@stepmoel]

Great work! A very detailed and well designed mission, beautifully captured in this video.

[@Flexistentialist]

What an excellent video. Excellent all across the board. Your nods to Kubrick haven't gone unnoticed either. Masterfully executed!

[@LBDRUMS22]

This would be the coolest mission ever if it were to be done in real life!

[@Katniss218]

WOAH

[@kerbinsphere]

WWOOAAHH

[@l_e_r_o_n]

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kerbinsphere]

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[@gen2mediainc.577]

Saturn is gorgeous, and you made something almost prettier, not to mention the detail and believability of everything just from the sheer confidence and care put into presenting it.

[@fatbasterd5195]

Loved the fantasy parts like a fusion engine and a working Starship heavy booster

[@psygnosisfr8573]

C'est juste magnifique ! I love KSP

[@garrisonchilds2610]

Post or not your vids are incredible and I hope your doing well. Merry Christmas!

[@alexahill3833]

I un-liked it... just so I could like it again :) My gosh that was an extremely well thought out and executed mission! I've never seen anything quite on this level before. All of the sequences were very well recorded and put together too. I especially enjoyed the balloon ascent... that caught me so off guard and definitely surprised me. Kudos to you.

[@thisisnotajoke]

Beautiful spacecraft Amazing mission design and execution Stunning visuals Fantastic work, I'm speechless!

[@sandipanganguly2219]

Waiting for u my man, it has been so long, great video

[@Eclipse-mk3hm]

that flying rover killed me

[@Eclipse-mk3hm]

and that titan launch too😆

[@nilschaves6681]

Damm I thought the Jupiter Mission you made was the best KSP project I've seen but this is just massive Well done, can't wait for the Uranus mission

[@olacolega7067]

These videos are beautiful! Please, make more of these if you have the time someday. You are super creative. Thank you!

[@dubweiserj]

Total work of art, the whole thing. The best mods I think I've seen too.

[@georgeharrison6154]

A Christmas treat!

[@ksmi9109]

Amazing! Well done! Bravo! As someone who considers Titan my “sweetheart” among the terrestrial bodies, I am absolutely in love with this video! Delighted to see that you’ve incorporated a lifting body design for the descent onto Titan, I’ve been raving about that for some time now! What really amazed be here was the fast paced ground station construction. It had a sort of simple yet complex elegance to it. Like trailer homes in space, such an obvious yet ingenious solution. I really have to give you props for that. The 330 day transfer as well, that I hadn’t even considered. I guess the future is brachistochromic, isn’t it? “If I shoot for Saturn and miss, at least I’ll land among the stars” said the wayward colony, zipping out of Earth’s gravity well at hundreds of kilometers per second, strapped to the business end of a fusion reactor. This is an incredible mission you’ve put into cinematic form. Well done! PS Like everyone else, I have to admit I gave a chuckle at the helicopter rover scene. I’m sure it’d work, one of the many benefits of Titan’s peculiar environment, but it is really reminiscent of the opening dialogue of the Bee Movie, “its wings are too small for its body, yet it flies anyway, because it doesn’t care what you think”!

[@OneLabToRuleThemAll]

The transition at 1:25 is just beautiful. No cuts, and the music lines up perfectly! The mission is beautifully made as well

[@Laranga01]

Damn that's beautifull ! I always wondered how y'all are making those very precise meetings in orbit. Everytime I tried to do a space station by assembling piece by piece in orbit, it went wrong D:

[@EnderAstronaut]

The second I saw this was uploaded, I clicked on it. You legitimately make some of the best KSP content I have ever seen. Keep it up!

[@Adalla]

What an incredible feeling must be when they touch back down home, on our beautiful Earth. To have seen and accomplished so much, and return safe home. What a journey. Thanks for making us dream!

[@Furyfire520]

Incredible mission! Really unique and done in RO to top that! Great job!

[@kojeb]

15:44 every time i think i know what's about to happen, im wrong, and i love it

[@LBDRUMS22]

If this mission were to happen in real life, I couldn’t even imagine how much money it would cost to make and how long it would take for that whole space station to be made and then how long it would take to get to Saturn and come back!

[@albertvanderheiden7419]

Probably the cost of the useless invasians of Afghanistan and Iraq.

[@therealist3495]

@@albertvanderheiden7419 Not if they used starships and designed the vehicle to be as cheap as possible. But we all know the only way that'd be possible if SpaceX was leading it, at least based on the current state of NASA.

[@lick816]

@@therealist3495 In the current state of NASA and Congress's interests this mission would never even leave the pen that would be used to draw on the drawing board

[@neev_anand]

Yo u are so underrated I am such a fan of ur content and it's crazy that the DEVS of the game and even Marcus House comment on ur vids it means u do put a lot of love in ur vids god bless u dude u are a awsome content creater just beautiful GAMEPLAY man

[@motokid6008]

Damn near brought a tear to my eye. This was fantastic, thank you.

[@Carlos-kh5qu]

14:23 Helikopter Helikopter moment

[@kuckian]

incredible

[@user-kz2vv4gm3j]

Получил удовольствие от просмотра. Сам отыгрываю много в КСП и восхищен некоторыми инженерными решением из этого видео. Вы большой перфекционист. Спасибо за труд.

[@PRODEZX]

by far the most amazing video i've seen made on ksp