KSP Tutorial: How To Build A Stock Space Shuttle | NO DLC REQUIRED |

Hope you find this tutorial helpful!
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Having issue's with the craft file, will post it when I fix the problem, sorry guys :(

[@TheBobert567]

Hold the 'alt' key when placing the engines, makes the engine snap to the node instead of surface.

[@rileyjohnson8039]

Damn i didn’t know that after 400 hours

[@thick45]

Thanks!

[@bobbybobby4]

I didn’t know that after over 1000hours

[@Piolet1549]

thanks

[@ieatdirtwasntavailable]

this makes cargo bays make you not want to die

[@tsunamiman5512]

I couldn’t believe my eyes when my shuttle actually worked. This tutorial was so extremely detailed and you didn’t forget the tiniest things. In my opinion, this is the best KSP tutorial I have seen

[@MartinsTimermanis-ed6jm]

Well actually he forgot struts at fuel lines coz when I takeoff the SRB''s just fell apart and fuel lines coz my vector engines didn't have enough fuel

[@tsunamiman5512]

@@MartinsTimermanis-ed6jm yeah, I just added those myself, but I'm still glad my spaceshuttle launched successfully

[@LunarMARAUDER]

​@@tsunamiman5512There's auto strut you can enable that if that'll help

[@firestorm8432]

My first ever shuttle left the pad and then belly flopped, Starship style into it’s demise

[@Piolet1549]

F

[@admiralrus8098]

It’s a space shuttle sn 8,9,10 etc

[@sphansel3257]

help me as well

[@ethangbb]

Tip: Hold Alt while placing a radial attaching part to not radially attach. Helpful for Aerospikes and Vectors!

[@Piolet1549]

thanks

[@radium6962]

Thank you so much vectors are the most irritable thing to place

[@racingmhf9157]

@@radium6962 really

[@Tulin258]

How to do it on Xbox?

[@ethangbb]

@@Tulin258 I have no idea

[@antonwestergaard5211]

Even though ive played the game for 800 hours i still find these incredibly useful! Thanks for em mate :)

[@Piolet1549]

awesome!

[@capttom144]

amazing, how accurate it looks..and even at launch and landing on the runway..fantastic job!! 👍

[@Piolet1549]

thanks

[@CACgaming007]

​@@Piolet1549the wings fall off mine and she ship falls forward or backwards????

[@scottwilliams846]

A trick I figured out myself (though I'm probably not the first one to do so) is put a probe core angled the same as your RS-25s (I usually put mine on the external tank) and control from there during ascent. It has allowed me to pretty much do a normal ascent profile when launching my shuttles.

[@lucasgrd4258]

i had the same idea recenty, although i did not execute it the same way. i placed the probe core at the back of the upper main engine and offset it into the engine base so i could still reach it by mouse if i wanted to. did the same thing with the oms (two for symmetry). then bound keys to them so i could easily switch between the first, the other or the cockpit for descent. Edit : btw i used terriers as OMS, the puff engines in this game are not near realistic appart from the fuel it's using

[@a7t0r98]

Thank you for the tips! I was finally able to get it orbit and dock with my space station.

[@jessieward2964]

Great tutorial! Looking forward to seeing more :)

[@Piolet1549]

thanks

[@arthurmorgan3103]

Thanks so much for this build, i have got one of many parts of my space station in orbit thanks to this build

[@justinanglin1635]

You are not my friend cause your bad at fortnite

[@AsimovXV]

@@justinanglin1635 Gayming

[@MattChaffe]

Glad to know you're having the same issues with reentry. I'll have to try that fuel drain you mentioned to see if that helps, but even for you it still seems really unstable.

[@ninovitaliano7943]

ah I missed the premier. keep up the good work!

[@Piolet1549]

thanks!

[@dawidk1360]

These are actually so useful I'm still bad at this lol I've not landed on any other planet than Kerbin. Great tutorial 😎😎

[@Piolet1549]

thanks! Glad the vid was helpful!

[@kendalcbrown1814]

hi ineed you look mind video okay you like and like me

[@aidenbrewster4209]

Use delta V map I don’t use it but I heard it’s good

[@MaximillionBucks]

I recommend the the mod RCS Build Aid. It allows you to see the center of mass with fuel compared to the CoM empty. It makes it a lot easier to balance space planes so that the CoM doesn't shift too far back and make the plane flat spin on re entry.

[@Piolet1549]

thx, I'll look into it!

[@MaximillionBucks]

@@Piolet1549 I'm honestly not sure how I ever played this game without it

[@fade1606]

i love your videos. I hope you gonna get 2k before year end up!

[@Piolet1549]

thanks!

[@sahilarora7162]

Thank you I was looking for a video to create shuttle 😃

[@Piolet1549]

np, hope it helps!

[@Leifdoe]

I needed this video

[@Piolet1549]

Glad it was helpful

[@complex3297]

Great video as always!

[@Piolet1549]

thanks

[@Doomslayer2163]

Great job on space shuttle 👍

[@ajj9981]

Thank you very helpful to angel engines had problem with all my shuttles before i did this thank you

[@Reflective_09]

Thanks for the tutorial! Now I can build a space station

[@arty7926]

Awesome Tutorial!

[@nico_qwer1732]

Man, you are so underrated

[@WEM2016]

My first (and only) shuttle did everything but glide. I rescued it by rendezvousing in orbit, putting parachutes in the cargo bay, and landing it like a capsule. Now, that's the only way I land a shuttle.

[@Piolet1549]

It's really annoying when you spend hours working on a shuttle, or SSTO and it finally works. but then you try to land and it just flips out

[@slickdiggler1197]

Good video. Keep em coming.

[@Piolet1549]

thanks! I will!

[@Alex-jd8if]

Nice design , easy to get to orbit, thanks!

[@scottwilliams846]

Hey, something you can do is add a probe core and tilt it foreword (with snap on and holding shift) 3 times. That way you can aerobrake on reentry by hitting control from here on it. Learned that from VAOS and it worked when I tried it.

[@efantheman8757]

Thanks I’m a absolute noob at this game this really helped

[@christophergonzalez6527]

tips; 1, if you want to splashdown, end your deorbit when your gonna hit at a shore, then there, except if it is a lake.......

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

Thanks for the tutorial. I tried flying the stock shuttle that comes with the Making History dlc(?) and iI couldnt figure it out. I just followed your tutorial and made my own. Its a lot better. Thank you.

[@Piolet1549]

thanks! Glad you found it helpful!

[@TruthIsTheNewHate84]

@@Piolet1549 your welcome. Just found your channel and I'm really enjoying the ksp tutorials.

[@NathanWakeman]

I don't play video games but this was still helpful.

[@unknowngamedev909]

how?

[@NathanWakeman]

@Santiago Im so when I'm an adult and can play video games I will know how to build a space shuttle.

[@mechanicalturkproductions7349]

@@NathanWakeman are you not allowed to play video games as a kid or?

[@NathanWakeman]

@thateggkid I am 13 and no I am not allowed to play video games.

[@mechanicalturkproductions7349]

@@NathanWakeman Oh.. why? I don't see how video games like this could be harmful for kids. Kerbal Space program is even educational

[@nightowl9242]

Amazing video!

[@MrSlyFox]

K, protips from the Buran: use the fairing as a nosecone of the shuttle. It's got higher max temp. While reentering, set your pitch to 40° just as NASA used to do, it really helps. And your center of mass of the orbiter itself is too far back. Try to move it towards the front, with some additional weight, like the airlock mockup and docking system. And maybe put a few separatrons on the fuel tank. I did that, bit that's just a suggestion.

[@Piolet1549]

The fairings would look a little weird imo but I'll give it a try. I actually tried to pitch to 40 during reentry, but it would ultimately still spin out. The COM being too far back was a definite problem, thx

[@_RandomPea]

I'm having no luck doing a reentry with the stock 'slim shuttle' ... Everytime it just overheats and burns up. Is it worth trying to come in backwards? Any chance you could try it as at the moment I have 3 pilots all stuck until I can be bothered to launch a rocket to get them :( I expected a stock example build to work correctly :(

[@MrSlyFox]

@@_RandomPea Your reentry angle is probably too high. Set the periapsis at about 20km and point your nose 40° above prograde. It should help

[@_RandomPea]

@@MrSlyFox ahhh I set periapsis to 41k like I do for command pods so that might be the issue. The passenger cabins just seem to be made of cardboard :D

[@MrSlyFox]

@@_RandomPea Hm...that's strange. 41km periapsis should be more than safe for reentries from low kerbin orbit

[@blaineburgess]

Damn, you thought you had subs when you made this video. you got SUB subs now bro, congrats!

[@Just_one_emoji_studios]

New sub because i love space

[@zerozerosprivate5547]

This was a perfect recreation! Except for these things: (see them as hints) -the boosters were a bit too big -you didn’t put a droge Shute on

[@Piolet1549]

idk what to do about the boosters, I could have maybe done a 1.875 liquid fuel tank and then an engine below it but I dont think that would be as good. And yeah, forgot the drogue shoot :(

[@zerozerosprivate5547]

Still a great video :) Keep doing what you do!

[@rbxless]

@@Piolet1549 maybe TweakScale with the SRBs

[@amyaragundi8710]

Sorry I think you meant drag chute

[@pricelessppp]

Stock Shuttles are a pain to land! 😂

[@Piolet1549]

100% agree, much easier than starship tho lol

[@Tulin258]

Wait, you can launch?

[@aidenbrewster4209]

@@Tulin258 same

[@odeioenzos]

Hahaha did you guys land it? I always put a escape pod and let it burn

[@admiralrus8098]

I just makes mine a test before side busters and external tank

[@oreosmith2862]

You can do three time symmetry on the vector engines then remove the one at the top from the symmetry

[@Shiwo_2]

Hmm nice content I like it (I'm new on your channel :))

[@Piolet1549]

thanks

[@fuelrich299]

I dare you to try to build the ISS, but assemble it in orbit exactly how the real one was assembled. Shuttle, robotic arms, etc.

[@Piolet1549]

that would be very difficult

[@josephstalin1223]

@@Piolet1549 and rewarding

[@ninovitaliano7943]

Tip: if you click 1, 2, 3 and 4 on your keyboard in the VAB or SPH, you can switch between Place, Move, Rotate and Root pat respectively.

[@bobbybobby4]

Thank you so much for this...

[@Piolet1549]

^

[@haktanonaran6356]

Thx Bro your the Beat :) 👍

[@Loke101]

tip: You can use Heat Shields at the bottom of the orange fuel tank

[@Piolet1549]

oooOOooo, I like it, thanks

[@Coli2603]

Can’t you just use the top cap thingy for both sides?

[@Loke101]

@@Coli2603 true but I think its heavier

[@jacksgamingpsx7908]

How do you set the back of the orange thing

[@christophergonzalez6527]

that's what I did in the early days

[@raphaelantonrainer]

Very Helpful

[@Piolet1549]

thanks!

[@XF90]

If not you, I wouldn't know how to autostrut, thank you very much!

[@bobbybobby4]

Autostrut might be one of the most useful things in all of ksp

[@XF90]

@@bobbybobby4 Agreed

[@Piolet1549]

Glad I helped

[@adwaith9516]

Use the shuttle's front nosecone for the oms pods so you don't have put the extra thing in the cargo bay so you can have more cargo

[@banlyzhaun8385]

With the mod radio heat shields, you can make a heat shield on the belly of the shuttle like a real shuttle

[@Diamond_Reptiles]

great video

[@nightshadows3885]

you deserve more attention

[@nightshadows3885]

just the editing and the work

[@angusantley2542]

@Piolet1549 the space shuttle actually did have the 4 way RCS blocks at the back but they where kind of not noticible

[@mattyjmar10]

Very useful. Thanks!

[@Piolet1549]

Glad you liked it!

[@CACgaming007]

@@Piolet1549 hey how do you copy and duplicate parts like how you did with the big orange engines

[@TaurusSpace]

Really cool!

[@Piolet1549]

thanks

[@epicgaming9476]

thank you so much

[@aghostofrazgriz5137]

You have a Lisp. I'm Hooked. Subscribed.

[@camerondeatcher9668]

Thanks for this, all of my shuttles tend to explode

[@Piolet1549]

np, hope it helped

[@jaxpro611]

Pretty poggers bro

[@Piolet1549]

thx :)

[@Ethan.YT.]

If you use liquid fuel engens as your orbital maneuvering system swap the monopropellant tank for a liquid fuel one and then a decoupler and disabled staging then the mount whitch you clip into it so you don't use the fuel from the liquid tank

[@elijahwills7331]

Well, thing is with stock space shuttles.... you need a larger external fuel tank. the 5 meter saturn v parts are the correct size, but color is a problem. The best you can do is make take a load of orange 2.5m tanks and shove them into a spherical shape.

[@scubaduckk]

You _could_ use a fairing but it would just add more weight to the vessel.

[@scubaduckk]

You could also use the 3.5 meter parts

[@elijahwills7331]

@@scubaduckk Well thing about the 3.75m parts is that they are too small. And using a fairing adds a negligible amount of weight, and the faring orange colour setting is mostly green. Overall multiple 2.5 meter orange tanks moulded into a 5m diameter is best.

[@meeast1169]

@@elijahwills7331 I don’t even have the game(yet) and this just interests me so much!

[@ironagent45]

@@elijahwills7331 I use a mode tweak scale to get the 3.75m parts scaled up to 5m, its a good solution if your on PC and really trying to make it accurate. (Its also good for other recreations I've made)

[@ZURTAN_L]

Greetings from the Russian "Buran")

[@Piolet1549]

lol

[@randomguyoninternetidk4014]

I built a really good looking Buran (not sure if it’s completely accurate) planning on putting it on my channel soon

[@ZURTAN_L]

@@randomguyoninternetidk4014 Good buildings are really good if I don't forget I'll take a look (I am Russian and I write through a translator, this is in case something is not clear)

[@sfsrocketengineer2492]

This guy is god

[@2gunjimmy144]

Haha im new to the game and wanted to go in over my head with a build like this, I thought I did it correctly until when I began to take off, the Clydesdales somehow decoupled from the orange tank leaving the shuttle on the launch pad

[@henryviii2091]

Hi, great video. I also built a shuttle pretty much like yours, but not exactly the same, and at launch it behaves very well, but after I decouple the SRB's, it keeps steady for a few more seconds, and then it starts rolling, and I can't for the love of me figure out what is the matter. Everything is balanced properly, I also tried turning off the gimbal and the control surfaces, i tried moving the fuel tank left and right, but nothing seems to work. Do you have any idea what could be the issue? I also followed your tutorial and built one exactly like yours, but it still does the same thing. Could there be an issue with the fuel consumption?

[@cheezysot]

This man has a lisp. And I like it.

[@Kontro_7]

Tip: instead of using a fairing as the bottom tank, use a heat shield thats the same size. It is DLC and mod free too!

[@Aceb_k]

The external tank could be a little lower, it would also help the COM to be lower for the Vector engines, but great job!

[@bobbybobby4]

Lowering the COM would mean the vectors would have to compensate even more. Although I do also think the tank was unrealistically high up on the orbiter.

[@Piolet1549]

agreed, orange tank was slightly high

[@letsdosomething6691]

Have you tried heat shielding on the belly? The real version had about 6 inches thick of heat shielding and there are some cool stories of it failing and the science of how it was supposed to work and does work.

[@azwarzhareef1834]

thanks you so much

[@bekeiijewere6204]

Thanks so much for the tutorial, please can you do like a series?

[@Piolet1549]

NP. Already have plans to do SLS, N-1, buran/ Energia and saturn V

[@nicodo123]

technically the OMS engines were a variant of the AJ10 engines, so if you wanted to be more accurate, you could've used the Wolfhound engines (of course, you would need Making History for that).

[@jonvanmaaren]

Maybe you could make an payload tutorial and add a parachute to the space shuttle to decelerate at the runway

[@togusarc8882]

Nice video. That the shuttle becomes unstable upon re-entry was already evident during the construction. Center of mass is too far back, it should be clearly in front of the lift point. And only 575 m/s in the tank of the OMS is too little. Especially when you consider that there was no cargo in the cargo bay. So empty it should be at least 900 to 1000 m/s. The tip with the Trainvalve is great.

[@Piolet1549]

I believe the Center of Mass was slightly in front of the center of lift during landing, or else it would have been completely unstable. About the OMS's, a big reason the delta V was a bit low was because I never drained the fuel from the MK2 adaptors I used to make the OMS pods which was just dead weight. thanks btw :)

[@YourAverageVrPlayer]

Good build but I couldn’t make the external tank nose cone orange

[@GDR007]

This was the first ever rocket I built in Sandbox mode so technically my first rocket!

[@Decefied]

Ok, so im having a problem, the engines on the space shuttle dont get the fuel from the orange tank so it fires up but shuts off because it ran ouut of fuel, how do i fix this?

[@Sol_Rng_isbetter]

Columbia at almost at the end

[@samuellambert6152]

The space shuttle OMS was actually a not monopropelent, it was hypergolic fuels. So I think it is more accurate to use a liquid fuel and oxidizer engine.

[@Piolet1549]

ah, my bad

[@TaurusSpace]

If you do a non dlc shuttle use the 5m tanks you get more control and it can get orbit using just the tank leaving loads of fuel in the shuttle systems to get a really high orbit for flexibility (also its the correct size in terms of looks)

[@Piolet1549]

k thx

[@CACgaming007]

​@@Piolet1549when I built the shuttle recently it falls over off its stands when trying to launch, breaking the wings off. Why does this happen?

[@lunniykorabl7182]

Amazing replica and I will definitely try this at home.Reckon I might use terriers for their higher twr tho.Dont know if they have a higher isp as well

[@bobbybobby4]

Terriers have a much higher isp and they provide substantially more thrust. The only downside is realism

[@Piolet1549]

^ yup

[@lunniykorabl7182]

@@bobbybobby4 Thank you!

[@richmountain1128]

One thing that would make this thing better: If the main engines are not gonna be used for the rest of the flight, why not put them on the tank and expend them? That would allow for a more efficient flight profile and means more monopropellant for more Delta-V and therefore a Mun or Minmus mission would be possible. Or would that break the accuracy and result in a “That never happened” attitude with your fellow subscribers?

[@SheepyKSP]

Hooray a tutorial that does not need the dlc :D

[@Piolet1549]

:)

[@SheepyKSP]

:)

[@intrainboy]

Hello! I hope your day is going well! I recently followed your video and made the shuttle, and I can easily get to a stable orbit around Kerbin. However, when I attempt to re-enter the atmosphere, and point the Orbiter in any direction other than prograde, as you do in the video to slow down, my wings and tail fin break off. I've activated auto strut and rigid body on the party as you've done in the video. Is there any solution to stop the wings from breaking off?

[@christophergonzalez6527]

turn off parts g force limits, maybe your doing it too aggressively

[@theairacobra]

all my supernaueverable planes killed themselves with the slightest movement i did until i turned off rigid attachment, for some reason rigid attachment makes stuff shatter if it pulls too much gforces, and yeah shuttles are fucking annoying to land, they always just stall unless i aim directly prograde

[@intrainboy]

@@theairacobra Hmm, fair enough! I'll have to take a look at Rigid Attachments in-game and see about messing with the setting! Thank you for the reply!

[@Cheese145b]

Add landing parachute to slow down enough

[@CACgaming007]

for some reason when I made this it broke wings, detaching the clamps and fell backwards. It worked before but when I updated the game I did it the same exact way you did here, auto strut and all and it just breaks and falls for no reason. Might just be auto strut jank shaking it apart but I'm to lazy to try anything else rn just to be disappointed when it don't work

[@Only-TSG13]

really cool, but you forgot the peraschutes

[@rocketthezmogus3743]

wow you are just better than matt lowne at making shuttles lol

[@Piolet1549]

IMO Matt does weird stuff to his shuttles, like why does he put canards and use MK3 as part of his orange tank.. But hey I still liked his vid so I guess it doesn't matter that much lol

[@TexasRailfan09]

hey quick thing, I have no idea if it's DLC or not, but there is a fuel tank that is like the bottom of the external tank, it's the S3-900R Hope this helps anyone looking for a better solution to fairings!

[@johnberger51]

For some reason, whenever I point the mouse directly over the coupler to attach a fuel tank or rocket, the coupler doesn't show up highlighted in green. All I see is through the craft. I don't know what's wrong, but I can't get the coupler to show up when I try to attach a fuel tank or rocket.

[@Verdelimebonolismalawy]

This is sooooo easy but soo cool

[@jimthefatjam2613]

Cool!

[@Piolet1549]

thanks!

[@hosamamawi7213]

Nice voice btw 💜🖤 Microphone i mean 😅😄

[@Piolet1549]

thanks

[@apollovr6744]

Why does mine continuously pitch down at launch. Ive tried lowering vector thrust with no avail. I can keep it straight for a bit then it always goes nose down

[@user-yg1ed2tm4x]

I recently started playing KSP. I built a space shuttle using this video as a reference, but when I re-enter the atmosphere, the engine side is down and I can't land. How can I make it glide with the head down?

[@perplexical]

I decided to make my own shuttle, all the parts down to the landing gear and the tiny wings on the side were exactly the same as this, I wonder if I have any original ideas anymore

[@HyperEditzCR7]

My tank plus the boosters exploded :D

[@HyperEditzCR7]

*realizes the shuttle aren’t attached to the wing*

[@babyrival4304]

Why do you have way more fuel then i do? Or does it just look like that?

[@donviglone7707]

You could have added some drag parachutes in the end, but great video nonetheless.

[@theyounghistorian5791]

That is a great build, but the external orange tank could be bigger

[@Piolet1549]

thanks. And yeah I could be

[@dtkhesi3742]

how do you get the wings and other parts like the same on the other side?

[@codyblack852]

I built this, but during re-entry it spins out of control, is this because my com and col are off?

[@FFContent]

how do you get Protective rocket nose cone in orange its only white for me and it won't let me change it, Im on PS5

[@Kontro_7]

Unfortunately alot of people (including me) can't make the orange tank nose orange. I used a bunch of converters going from big to small and a small nose cone. Its not perfect but it's very good. If you don't like that, just follow the tutorial as he says and don't paint the tanks and its like the old shuttle launches.