KSP: The Forgotten European Space Station Columbus - Recreation

Today, we'll be meandering down the fascinating pages of alternate history, as we set to recreate the Hermes/Columbus program proposed by the ESA from the 1970s-1990s! Today, we'll be building the most ambitious version of the ESA Space Station!
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[@raulkaap]

Don't worry about your lazy method being unrealistic anymore. The Nauka module just did it in real life.

[@coryexe936]

How so?

[@HeidenLam]

Yeah, how so?

[@nasawormlogo9521]

Indeed, how so?

[@-Trusty]

Quite quite, how so?

[@tytangameplay3118]

Interesting stuff, how so?

[@3PurpleSquirrels]

Can we get a mir space station restoration its got be the most Kerbal looking thing to have been in space.

[@dennyrulos4847]

Agreed

[@dudukagameplayscriticasyma2733]

You’re goddam right

[@unosyt7945]

Good idea why doesn’t he make one!

[@WoTAndWegaG988]

Agreed

[@TheHutchy01]

You're not kidding, it just occurred to me I'd never seen Mir, and having seen it, if Matt was ever to just get really drunk and design a station, I imagine that's what'd come out.

[@catgirl__4013]

Matt: Hey esa can I make a space station Esa: only a faring full Matt: pulls out comically large faring

[@debs-3309]

Ok lest not forget that he made a smaller fairing.

[@nasawormlogo9521]

@@debs-3309 I’ll remind lest so he doesn’t forget.

[@Mason_8r]

Don’t be surprised if he makes this a community post tomorrow

[@NotTheHeroStudios]

everyone asking how, I want to know why

[@rbxless]

@@nasawormlogo9521 LMAO

[@Warriorking.1963]

Personally, I've never seen docking ports concealed behind fairings the way you have them in the side appendices you attached to the T module. That was very clever, I think I might use that one myself.

[@prolska]

New video coming in a few hours

[@marciafariaslima1781]

the T module!!!!!!!!!!!!!211!!1111111111!!!!!'!?!1!!!!1!11

[@keiyakins]

Well, after this you need to do Tiangong, then some absurd mission where you mash all three together into one absurd superstation

[@unosyt7945]

Oh yeah.. since it might be interesting

[@randomguy-jd8su]

kraken treats

[@mikicerise6250]

Yes! ISS+Tiangong+Mir monstrosity pls. xD

[@eekee6034]

@@mikicerise6250 +Skylab because it was a big room to bounce around in! :D

[@LimeJuice0308]

Matt: LETS RECREATE A FORGOTTEN SPACE STATION Me: pls let jeb live (bare in mind it’s a smol srb rocket)

[@riesjart3874]

ESA is pronounced Eeh-sah, not E.S.A., they even made a tweet about that this week

[@solarisone1082]

Don't care. Still calling it E.S.A.

[@riesjart3874]

@@solarisone1082 you’re also calling Nah-sah ‘N.A.S.A.’?

[@michaelkaminski1166]

@@riesjart3874 If that’s what feels natural for him, yes.

[@puiu102006]

@@riesjart3874 i just say e.s.a. and na-sa

[@gsquared8730]

@@puiu102006 same.

[@quadaerospacespacecat8061]

TIMESTAMPS :- *0:02:build *5:44 : launch *6:37 : SRB seperation *6:59 : upper stage seperation *8:04: first module in orbit *8:45: launch 2 *9:29: booster seperation *9:42:upper stage seperation *11:41:rendevzou burn *13:26: docking 2,3 modules *15:02:launch 3 *15:37:srb detachment *15:37: stage 2 ignition *16:32: rendevzou burn *17:04: docking 4 & 5 modules

[@mariasirona1622]

It's rendezvous, with an s in the end

[@mariasirona1622]

Also a more correct thing to say would be "docking modules 2 and 3"

[@quadaerospacespacecat8061]

@@mariasirona1622 Ok

[@quadaerospacespacecat8061]

@@mariasirona1622 I wrote it in a hurry.

[@mariasirona1622]

@@quadaerospacespacecat8061 i just wanted to help :c

[@fractalelf7760]

Strangely I thought the larger fairing actually looked cool. Designing stations in KSP is always fun to watch and do, never gets old!

[@xpsychotimesx9996]

I appreciated the break down of anniversaries in space this week. I’m not much of a space person. But it’s how I got most of my knowledge of what had happened years ago aside from Apollo. So thank you for those important informative moments. Thank you.

[@squidwardtortellini4982]

You should get RealPlume. It's entirely compatible with waterfall. Waterfall configs take priority over RealPlume configs, so if an engine has both it will use the waterfall configs. Since waterfall doesn't have SRB configs the srb plumes don't look the best, so RealPlume will solve that.

[@polishkerbal6920]

I didnt know that

[@rbxless]

Would you happen to know if it's compatible with Restock?

[@polishkerbal6920]

@@rbxless it is

[@rbxless]

@@polishkerbal6920 :O

[@vighneshpokale5287]

I have actually never heard about the station

[@monk4661]

Me nether

[@haroldinho9930]

It was never built.

[@unosyt7945]

Me either

[@redpug5042]

irl you make a payload for a rocket, in ksp, you make a rocket for a payload. ksp makes it so you have few constraints for a payload, it's just "can you get it to where it needs to be without crashing the game" always good to see when people try using the same rocket for different payloads.

[@HistoricSpaceStuff]

I think spacecraft docking automatically is pretty realistic. Even on Mir that was done. And when it wasn't it was almost a disaster. It's less fun though. also a shame the US didn't have the idea earlier to share missions and costs with others like Europe. Maybe Apollo wouldn't have had to die.

[@unosyt7945]

Rip Apollo but ngl I think in if apollo still existed I think it would be like Soyuz but american

[@mariasirona1622]

I think depressurizing an entire module would count as a disaster. Spektr was almost lost!

[@ToreDL87]

@@unosyt7945 Yeah Apollo could still have been a thing and very much in use, the spaceshuttle just cost too much for what little it could do, and managed to "blow up" (in lose terminology), twice.

[@Jaegermeister1234561]

IMO the Hermes looks bloody awsome, cant wait for next episode

[@ivans9132]

Matt should refuel this station with a Hermes shuttle

[@KingSeagull-vo6lp]

Two part series Matt once said

[@ivans9132]

@@KingSeagull-vo6lp yeah i just posted the comment before he announced it. He didn’t give the Hermes name tho

[@KingSeagull-vo6lp]

@@ivans9132 yeah hermès is the only ESA shuttle

[@ivans9132]

@@KingSeagull-vo6lp Yeah and that shuttle never came to be

[@TaurusSpace]

wait people forgot about this thing? Great video!

[@firnen_]

"The European heat wave", meanwhile Germany feels like it's already been September for the past 2 or 3 weeks at least.

[@eekee6034]

He's in the warmest part of Britain. The midlands by contrast have been cool for a couple of days already.

[@reinerjung1613]

We had the heat in May. Now we got all the rain for Europe. While Spain, UK and Turkey dry out. Unfortunately, the water levels as 1.8 m below surface are still an issue in East Germany.

[@unosyt7945]

BRUH IT IS FREEZING IN SLOVAKIA

[@mariasirona1622]

Finland was super hot a few weeks ago, but now it's cold and damp like a stereotypical UK. I know the stereotype is that Finland is a winter wonderland, but that's only in good winters.

[@acanadianderg4035]

"Space stations are pointless in KSP." Laughs in Kerbalism

[@unosyt7945]

only thing that is pointless is launch escape systems and oxygen tanks in KSP

[@M3A1GreaseGun]

a fellow kerbalism user?

[@acanadianderg4035]

Indeed

[@nucleargods4032]

Looks good, as always.

[@JimbotheGymbro]

Matt in episode 2 you should bring a parachute for the escape pod and add it in eva construction

[@iwik4684]

i was waching your vid's when this came out

[@Jack2007ren]

I was watching the walking dead

[@gideon2092]

@@Jack2007ren you were watching Matt Lowne in real life? That’s cool! ;)

[@Jack2007ren]

@@gideon2092 wait matts dead?

[@Jack2007ren]

@O F was you meant to comment on this or on the general video

[@thecheaperthebetter4477]

I don't think you know how big skylab was... it was literally an entire s IV-B stage converted to space station

[@ColinPaddock]

I’m holding out for an S-II.

[@M3A1GreaseGun]

the wet workshop is a saturn 1b second stage

[@miguelboewing9612]

The nosecones on the srb's should be pointing inward

[@randomguy-jd8su]

oh my god i just noticed

[@RT-bp1tf]

I didn't know about this but now I'm excited about the mission!

[@Cresign]

Could you do Europa Space Station recreation? It was planned to be part of Interkosmos program and would be made up of modules from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and USSR

[@stephanecolombain3150]

Did you have any source or picture of this concept ? i've never read anything about it but i'm always interested about european stuff.

[@NavalGaming670]

Hey Matt, I think you are great. I just like watching you build, launch, and commentate. Good luck with ur future videos

[@user-qh9wo9ls5s]

In career mode space stations and surface bases are not so pointless.

[@harcourtfentonmudd7980]

I have a space station on Mun's orbit and another one on Duna's orbit. But stations on Kerbin's orbit are pointless, unfortunately.

[@HermanVonPetri]

@@harcourtfentonmudd7980 I use Kerbin orbit space stations as a way-station for Kerbal rescue contracts. It has docked with it a very lightweight orbital rescue ferry with just command seats that rendezvous with the rescued Kerbals and brings them back to the station to wait for return to the surface. Since the rescue ferry only carries a couple of Kerbals it can fill up at the station using very little fuel and then go and collect some more. It can easily go out to the Mun or Minmus for rescues and circularize again back at LKO since it's mostly pure delta-v. Once I've got about eight Kerbals collected on the station I send up a return/reentry craft to refuel the station and then bring the Kerbals down all at once. (Although, I'm not sure I should be telling you this, space pirate that you are ;)

[@harcourtfentonmudd7980]

@@HermanVonPetri That sounds clever. I could use this to collect female kerbals and sell them to the miners on Minmus ;)

[@destroyergameryt1028]

Can you create isro space station. And gaganyan flights.

[@FalconTrooper]

im a kind of perfectionist when it comes to ksp so i use the stock delta V tools, and matt use those it is so useful

[@kerbinkerman4401]

Yesssssss well done love the detail, A+!! Looks BEAU tiful ;)

[@TheHutchy01]

I never knew until this video that the Swiss were involved in the ESA. I didn't know they had anything to do with space, but I suppose with stuff like CERN, I should have considered it.

[@Samuel_613]

You make the best KSP Videos on KZbin, 👍

[@davididiart5934]

4:55 Late to the party, but I've gotten to creating these little 'probe-ports' and sending stacks of them up with my stations. Like tiny, tiny tugs to swivel around and help move bits and bobs about (some with alternating sides if I need to convert port sizes). Could have done something similar with that escape pod just to have it stacked up before flight, and then reorientate it once in orbit. Love these videos! You've made me a MUCH better ksp player by watching these, so thank you!!!

[@Ihatetechnology]

I still love watching these videos.

[@conradhyde4318]

So do i

[@-qwerty-4422]

You know when Matt Lowne uploads it'll be a banger!

[@Seinaru]

Epik

[@Joshs4stro]

the seamless fairing docking point is a neat idea

[@Sebas-yc4yu]

love your videos to watch especially when I'm board

[@awilliams1701]

you should get docking port alignment indicator. It makes the non lazy docking method a lot easier.

[@eekee6034]

Best-looking space station!

[@FonVegen]

Columbus Independent Station. CIS. Now where have I heard that acronym before?

[@zack_the_nardo]

Oh god, I think I forgot about this channel for too long :| i need to watch so many new videos! And it starts here

[@darthpatricius]

i am hyped for the esa space shuttles!

[@conradhyde4318]

Sameeee

[@austinpappas1620]

Matt Lowne you are my most favorite youtuber by far

[@conradhyde4318]

Sad he's not getting recognition and his views are taking a hit

[@cavanaldred2329]

loving the videos matt keep it up i always enjoy your content its worth waiting for

[@BenD_Koopa]

Thank you for paying tribute to the canceled ESA projects. They are sadly forgotten and most don't know their existences.

[@joshuagreathouse3509]

Thank You i am enjoying the game

[@KnightRanger38]

Could you extend this series to include other proposed space stations - like Freedom and Mir2?

[@MichaelPMcDonnell]

Hope this means your hand is in repair! Great video @Matt!

[@conradhyde4318]

Great and hope his hands better too

[@johnburr9463]

You can add the parachutes when you bring up the crew. Call it the first servicing EVA.

[@MinerBat]

yay we are going to get a hermes recreation from matt lowne!

[@franciscourrutia599]

I have one idea for life in Laythe, you could make a "carpethouser" its like a carpet bomber but instead of droping bombs you drop lots of "houses" with parachutes (landers)

[@habedoudefiant3754]

You forgot to do the French Diamant rocket, Eldo Europa rocket, ESA ariane 1-4. But at least we got Ariane V.

[@raytan956]

space station builds are the most enjoyable

[@conradhyde4318]

They are aren't they?

[@ididthisinschool6423]

Playing pool in space would be so fun

[@sk8kour]

When I saw launch 2 on the pad South Park immediately popped into my head

[@anonomyspizza]

After you mentioned Mir and Skylab so much in this video I kinda want to see you recreate them in ksp

[@conradhyde4318]

Suggest it on his discord if you want to see it!

[@powerbongo922]

You should recreate the toppat space Station from the henry stickmin collection

[@conradhyde4318]

I agree

[@randomguy-jd8su]

yes

[@naenaemyers5236]

watching a new youtube video < Watch this video over and over again

[@dylancook7732]

Actually, the falcon 9 second stage does perform a deorbit burn so that it lands in a safe place, and it doesn't just let it's orbit decay.

[@TheSocialPotwal]

What be really incredible, if you would build the HERMES of the movie the Martian with the spinning moduels and so on

[@engineeringdragon235]

Da engine, is bootiful

[@jamiegreen1512]

I think Matt should do A black arrow/prospero recreation

[@conradhyde4318]

Suggest it in his server then

[@Pitachips22]

18:12 i remember doing that by accident and unsuccessfully with a satellite i had launched. only destroyed a solar panel though so it was fine

[@tashee10]

Nice build

[@conradhyde4318]

It is, isn't it

[@axelarkananta7446]

Matt,you can use realplume for srbs plume

[@ZappDragonOG]

The mainsail is my favorite engine

[@conradhyde4318]

It's everyone's favourite

[@sulochanareddy4883]

Did you make space this week episode, exclusive to only channel members?ohh I miss that

[@WoTAndWegaG988]

Can you recreate station MIR 2 please? I think this’ll be pretty interesting work, u must enjoy it :)

[@bloopbloop9687]

can you make the von Braun station? you could even make a series out of it

[@sargentbunny226]

When docking, if you line up the prograde and target markers you won’t slide past the other docking port awkwardly

[@conradhyde4318]

But this way is more fun with stations

[@tangelmango2208]

what mods do you use to make gameplay easier?

[@ldelamat1]

I’m going to Chicago on the second Thursday of august

[@LimeJuice0308]

That’s cool, it’s my birthday on the third

[@mr.person5788]

The waterfall forum post says that it works up to 1.11, are you having issues running it on 1.12?

[@daveidoogil9896]

Imagine playing Billiard in 3d / in microgravity.

[@cockgubbeler5942]

Hey matt, could you make the new shepherd rocket from blue origin

[@testkanal1459]

finaly I lerned how to dock on a station XD

[@conradhyde4318]

Always a fun time

[@bhernemielramos2345]

YEAH!

[@conradhyde4318]

NAHHH!!!!

[@monk4661]

Welcome back to your computer hope your hand is better.

[@mariasirona1622]

Skylab was absolutely massive

[@gdveirce]

Hey Matt! I have a good (or at least I think good) challenge for you. Try out Spaceflight Simulator, it's like KSP but 2D. See what you can make! You will need to play it on phone or with an emulator tho

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

Can you imagine how much money would be lost to corruption if the Europeans tried to build a whole space station? Crikey.

[@randomdumbassguy]

Atleast i did not forget

[@user-pf9fq1nb8r]

Nice

[@conradhyde4318]

Noceee

[@lastationproductions]

Have you thought about making a kerbal space station version of Mir?

[@garretttinker5954]

Would said shuttle be Hermes or HOTOL?

[@supercubflyer8962]

You should make the gateway station and orbit it around the mun

[@conradhyde4318]

He has done it before, deep space gateway video

[@rayceeya8659]

What was the name of that European shuttle they were designing back in the 90s that they never finished?

[@isdi1581]

1.12.2 is out! GROUND ANCHORS!! MAKE A HANGING MUN ARCH BASE

[@danteonpvp6602]

i didnt know ESA had a space station! poggers

[@conradhyde4318]

Pogchamp

[@perfectman3077]

Ksp 2 better be at 2.7x scale. Stock kerbin is so frustratingly small.

[@conradhyde4318]

Little bitty kerbit lmao

[@Mr_Vakarian]

Kerbal! :D

[@conradhyde4318]

Space!

[@ZappDragonOG]

You should make a AN 227

[@conradhyde4318]

He's flown big craft before it's it's quite laggy but it's worth it to suggest on discord I guess

[@doge3058]

Matt it 3:39 in the morning

[@conradhyde4318]

For me it's 3:17!!

[@killme8059]

@Matt Lowne can you try SimpleRockets 2 ?

[@conradhyde4318]

He's been asked this heaps of time and it's doubtful but try him on his server and you might sway Matt's mind

[@Sakuraisan12]

time to make the MIR Matt!

[@conradhyde4318]

Да

[@bestsynth4102]

Ooo! Try the Chinese space station next!

[@conradhyde4318]

Would be fun to see as it launched this year

[@TxTea713]

Can you do a science ssto to laythe without gravity assists

[@rafaelsc3071]

Can you build Rosseta??

[@conradhyde4318]

Would be good to see, suggest it in the discord