Orbiter - Vostok 1 - First Ever Manned Spaceflight

Orbiter is a free spaceflight simulator, it's got much more detail on the actual flying and vehicles than KSP, but lacks the building and real time rigid body physics that provide so much entertainment in KSP. But if you want to experience real spacecraft then it's probably a better choice
Orbiter is developed by Martin Schweiger and can be downloaded for free from orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
The Vostok Plugin I use is by Igel it supports all of the Vostok missions - including the ones with animals as passengers.
www.orbithangar.com/searchid.p...
Videos featured in the credits:
• A-OK Wings Of Mercury ...
• Scott Plays Orbiter - ...

[@pjousma]

I'm never going on a space flight with Scott Manley, he'll be like: "actually let's just do that, switch into manual control mode and fly that thing around."

[@smainebelhadi1193]

His curiosity will kill the crew. He must be tapped to his seat completely except his head. : "enjoy the view and please keep you recommendations to yourself ".

[@rbrtck]

That was pretty much the attitude of NASA's astronauts, though. It wasn't that NASA and the US couldn't do as much automation as the Soviets (if anything the former were more sophisticated with computers and programming than the latter), but NASA's astronauts wanted, perhaps even demanded, that they do the flying rather than computers. Obviously some critical parts of each mission, such as the launch sequence and staging, were automated, but overall NASA's astronauts were given a lot more manual control because that's how they preferred it to be. Of course, this still doesn't mean you're wrong, as Scott Manley is not a highly trained test pilot and astronaut, but I'm just saying that NASA's astronauts felt the same way for their own reasons.

[@twistedyogert]

"I hit that switch I hope I didn't break anything."

[@hankblaster]

... "No, wait. I really need to land this thing."

[@bigblue6917]

You could test the idea that in space they cannot hear you scream.

[@avj_curvebreaker]

Today I learned that Yuri Gagarin reentered in a goddamn cannonball.

[@seanmchughinfo]

and landed in an ejection seat, lol. who knew.

[@markswanson1752]

Didn’t land with his spacecraft. Flight doesn’t count.

[@garethcurtis7545]

@@markswanson1752 better tell him 🤣

[@jdmlegent]

Better say...in a fireball ! Non on the less, he was 1st human to go to the unknown, the last frontier which is space! Consider the situation back in USSR in 1961 he was a hero on doing that flight, much respect!

[@davidwaynechoate8059]

I highly doubt Anyone was in That Stinky Old Movie Prop.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

yuri gagarin was a brave man. no wonder his massive monument immortalized like a super hero.

[@odysseusrex5908]

The interior room of the Vostok capsule is quite impressive. The old NASA hands called them flying offices.

[@ZavorotKostey]

Gagarin is like Jebediah - smiles whatever happens.

[@AlfredqwertyZien]

I think that Jebediah was created with Gagarin in mind. Smile and first man in space.

[@RandomPerson-jo7cw]

@@AlfredqwertyZien looking at the person who inspired Valentina would probably tell the true answer so yeah, I guess you're right

[@twistedyogert]

"Regardless of my currently precarious situation I assure you that I'm still enjoying myself."

[@prcvl]

But jeb is cute!

[@givemebackmyhamster6392]

All smiles

[@pavelZhd]

Yuri's words were: Поехали! (Let's ride!)

[@bergonius]

It might be translated as "Let's roll!" as well. How cool is that?

[@pavelZhd]

bergonius I'm not sure Gagarin intended to be that badass. :D And if he meant "Let's roll" he probably would say "Погнали!"

[@edgeeffect]

I always wondered if it was "в путь" from the Russian military song... just 'cus that would be good propaganda... but apparently not.

[@DrCranium]

@@edgeeffect Gagarin was a trained military pilot, and I assume that his habbits took over at the launch: as far as I know, "Poyekhali!" was a command that has been used to inform the ground crew that the jet plane starts moving and everyone should get away from it, basicaly - similar to English "Clear prop!" command for propeller planes.

[@JesusisJesus]

And the great Zephram Cochrane’s first words were “Oh, I think I forgot something!” And first words at warp “Sweet Jesus!” “You don’t know what, you can find.... Why don’t you come with me, on a Magic Carpet Ride?”

[@waterlubber]

"Appreciate the sounds of the instrumentation" *ksp music begins playing in background* Oh, my burn is done!

[@diabeticalien3584]

waterlubber Same!

[@kerbalizergamingsoldchanne1926]

when?

[@xXCursedWorgenXx]

he meant he was playing KSP and watching that video at the same time. so when scott talked about shutting down the radio at the start of the video when he reached the orbit, Lubber's own rocket reached orbit which is when a music start playing in KSP

[@CachorroPodre]

Even Gagarin used mechjeb all the way-out! How could you blame Scott from using it!?!?!?!?!?

[@avrorik369]

mechyuri, actually

[@k1productions87]

Scott, I love how you are doing a historical perspective. The early space program is something that just isn't taught anymore, and I find that quite disheartening. It is awesome to see a fellow space enthusiast out there. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see your perspective on Voskhod 2 (boy, that was an amazing story, hidden for the longest time).

[@scottmanley]

You mean the story of how Alexie Leonov almost never made it back inside?

[@k1productions87]

Scott Manley Beyond that. The craft landed several hundred kilometers off course in the frozen wilderness. Leonov and his co-cosmonaut had to survive the night in the cold with just their pressuresuit and sweat-soaked longjohns. Wasn't until the next day that rescuers could come on skis to build a log cabin for the next night, and not until the morning of the third day that they could all ski back to the aircraft to take them home.

[@jdoldaccountschoolaccount4362]

+K1productions and they also had a survival shotgun\pistol combo gun

[@nihil2157]

+Jamie Workman no they had only PM

[@husaynahmed428]

K1productions

[@WheatleyOS]

I speak Russian, but that just sounded like a squeaking tin can. The more I turned up the volume, the more it sounded like that.

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

Wheatley I was playing some video game that was supposedly about winter war, and as finnish I of course bought it. I dont remember what country had made it but it sure didnt have fins doing the voice overs. by god it sounded horrible. incomprehensible accent is one thing but I could hardly understand what they were saying. just have to guess what the hell did that guy just say.

[@WheatleyOS]

MrAnimepredator xD

[@LowFlyer]

I am serbian(the language is very similar to russian) and i could understand a single word.If those were words.LOL

[@WheatleyOS]

@104658095579990664870 yeah, when you increase the volume it sounds like tin foil

[@LowFlyer]

omg just noticed it.

[@vonKartoffel]

When i saw the Thumbnail i thought its KSP

[@ChaplinONLINE]

Yep. ^^

[@Primus_Asmodeus]

Me too

[@minerlogo]

2 HD and realistic to be KSP :/

[@ChaplinONLINE]

That's what you think. ^^ :3

[@gentlemen.7621]

TheTrueLPG Hey atleast one part is in KSP so I understand you

[@sirHonbob]

damn, 9 years on and this video still beats most.

[@MrPashee]

Thank you for this, Comrade Manley ) Respecting you for knowledge of our history. I hope someday one russian cosmonaut and an astronaut from US will make a first step together on the Mars) From Russia, with love)

[@widg3tswidgets416]

MrPashee as an American that hates the Russian government, even I could support a joint mission as a nod to our shared history as pioneers in the space field.

[@odysseusrex5908]

From Russia with love? Best James Bond story ever!

[@user-mr1um1cg5v]

MrPashee No, thanks. We don’t want the astronaut poisoned by Novichok or some radiative substance in tea. You hope because Russia is finished as a space superpower. A few more years of Soyuz and Progress and you’re done.

[@ThatCamel104]

@@user-mr1um1cg5v I presume you have an alternative?

[@user-mr1um1cg5v]

ThatCamel104 AlternativeS - plural, mate, are in the pipe.

[@nblax41]

The pilot of Soyuz 1, Vladimir Komarov, was apparently the first choice for Vostok 1 but the Soviets didn't want to risk their best pilot so Gagarin was chosen in his place. Komarov was given the more demanding Soyuz launch which ended up killing him.

[@scottmanley]

You're confusing Komarov and Gherman Titov - Titov was the pilot for Vostok 2, who was percieved to be a stronger choice and therefore assigned to the 1 day mission vs Gagarin's 1 orbit mission. Komarov came along later.

[@nblax41]

Scott Manley I had always read Komarov was the first choice for Vostok but it was too risky. Maybe it was for Soyuz and they didn't want Gagarin flying again nor was he considered good enough. Something along those lines. Oh well.

[@tank_3487]

***** Yep. And bloody capitalists have murdered 14 astronauts by putting them in defective Space Shuttles. You have overdose of propaganda.

[@tank_3487]

***** You think soviets have known? They were first peoples in space. Lol, they even maked assumption that Gagarin can go nuts due to long term weightless experience, this is why code panel was installed. Still you have used defective shuttles after first crash. That coating can get damage was known well enough. Still they risked. About suffocation its unfortunate incident, huge mistake was asumption that if something goes wrong all cosmonats would die no matter with space suit or without it. Problem was not in not full seal. Problem was that emergency automatic have opened valve on too high attitude. Cosmonauts even tried to close it manualy(they maked tragic wrong guess). Fighters are always crash, in all countries. Its unfortunately not surprise that after quite long pause in piloting chance of such accident are higher.

[@tank_3487]

***** Ты видимо туповат, раз сарказм воспринимать неспособен... Перечитай сообщение на которое я отвечал. Обе стороны не были способны оценить полностью риск для полетов в космос. И то что советы(да и американцы) подвергали излишнем риску космонавтов может утверждать лишь мудак.

[@MrJest2]

This is actually kind of cool... a perspective on history you could never have imagined, much less SEEN, at the time.

[@josefodium8888]

Gagarin's phrase in English would be something like “Let's ride”. The flight was fully automated since nobody new if a man can pilot one at all. Remember that was the first flight. Medics fully believed that conditions of the spaceflight can knock a person unconscious or alter their perceptions in some major way. Russian space tests were on dogs and they were not really fond of zero G going full berserk on those capsules. Tyuratam was basically a test launch site to get all the tech straight for Baikonur spaceport that was still under construction. The name was taken from a small village situated nearby, which was a common practice for all kinds of industrial complexes in USSR (practice being - name the thing same as the closest town while it is under construction and then give it some pompous formal name after it is operational). Baikonur spaceport was chosen as a name for the whole complex of launch sites and infrastructure. They are in the same area. Tyuratam even served as Baikonur's reserve launch site after the latter became fully operational. So no renaming really occurred, they just used a formal name of the spaceport and not the working name of the launch site in the international announcement. Makes sense, if you ask me.

[@igvc1876]

Let's roll would be a better translation

[@LTrotsky21stCentury]

So many Americans think their space program was the first in many things, and it's good that sims like Orbiter and KSP have mods that can teach people about *both* space programs. If enough people in every country become aware of what we (humanity) did 50 years ago, maybe humanity can have a real, global space program - with all of the resources and technology of the globe we have today we could do just about anything in the solar system we, collectively, wanted to do.

[@PObserver]

4th Internationalist Trotskyite pls go.

[@LTrotsky21stCentury]

***** Build me a rocket to the moon, and I will. ;)

[@qwe2433]

I like the way you type the words for this topic. However, world peace isn't a very realistic idea. At least, not from my rather pessimistic point of view.

[@Finkin79]

qwe2433 Peace is significantly easier when the politicians and the elites in the military industrial complex aren't in the picture. I've been around people from all around the globe and got on well with all of them. Regular populous of every country has about 10 times as much in common with the regular population of other countries then we have with our own governments.

[@LTrotsky21stCentury]

Finkin79 Reveal, my friend, the truth hidden from us by those who desire to keep their power over us.

[@coryman125]

10 meters per second is too fast? Just yesterday, Bill Kerman landed in the Arctic Circle at that speed and survived. To be fair, the thruster broke.

[@AltereggoLol1]

D3LTA48 whoosh, right into orbit.

[@gunnervine]

people run faster than that

[@jasonsleight1531]

Oinikis Not really, world record for 100m dash is 9.58s. This gives an average speed is ~10.44 m/s for the race, and certainly faster than that for a maximum. Now obviously a normal person couldn't run a sub 10s 100m (mostly because they wouldn't accelerate fast enough), but running 10m/s for a moment shouldn't be out of reach for a reasonably athletic person. That said hitting the ground from a fall at 10m/s is very different than running 10m/s since in the fall you go from 10m/s to 0m/s in an instant.

[@ideasrule2]

gunnervine Try running full-speed into a wall, and you'll see why 10 m/s is too fast.

[@Markus9705]

LOL

[@ScripturusEU]

In Soviet Russia, spacecraft flies you!

[@charlescsmith1213]

ScripturusEU most underrated comment on the board lol

[@glowingone1774]

@Hawksley Marshall Way fuck off you ruined the joke

[@tunisianpartisan1080]

@Hawksley Marshall Way thanks for information (i like learn thing XD) i liked your comment

[@allesmedvesek]

I give you the best Soviet Russia joke award.

[@fredforbush1388]

@Hawksley Marshall Way This is open to conjecture.

[@twistedyogert]

Even if he was ejected before landing I'd still consider Yuri to be the first person to orbit the Earth. The records people should've made exception for safety protocols.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

It's a shame Kerbal Space Program doesn't have engine cluster designs that makes a simple 20 engine rocket feasible.

[@projecttitanica9516]

Now it does

[@rbrtck]

20 engines? If you're referring to the Soyuz (R-7 based) rockets, then not counting the Vernier thrusters, it only has five engines at liftoff. Each engine has four combustion chambers and four nozzles, but there are only five engines in the first stage, total.

[@CarlosAM1]

It does, just place more engines. Also the soyuz only had 5 engines

[@cursedcliff7562]

Oh how times change

[@zelda_smile]

"Why is my oxygen at zero? That dosent seem like a good plan." Scott manley's famous last words

[@aviationzach8438]

Awesome video! Its really cool that this Orbiter Sim can show what happened and give you a visual then just hearing about it. Thanks Scott!

[@yurialtunin9121]

Scott! What a wonderful clip! Thank you very much!

[@shinnyorc2278]

Let's please not bring politics into this. Both space programs produced fascinating scientific results and built good, spaceworthy vessels. Each and everyone of the men, women, and dogs that crewed them are valiant heroes who risked their lives for science. Unfortunately, not all of them made it back. May those lost to the vastness of space rest among the stars, peacefully, forever.

[@redsoldier7220]

Only 3 people died in space, and the capsule landed with their bodies. But your message is great.

[@VidweII]

RED Soldier I'm maybe more bothered by all the Ruskie pups that were sacrificed, especially the one that literally cooked to death. Brutal.

[@weasle2904]

I can only imagine how many people died in the Soviet Space Program that were covered up to prevent a bad image for them. This was the peak of propaganda for the USSR.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@VidweII What dog got cooked to death? I am unfamiliar with that.

[@odysseusrex5908]

@@weasle2904 If you mean died in space flights and were covered up, there were none. They did have a terrible accident when a rocket exploded on the pad while a number of people were out on the gantry working on it, and they had one poor guy who got terribly burned in a fire in in a pure oxygen environment, and later died. Information about those did not come out until the 1970s.

[@TychoBrahe21]

Anybody else notice the excellent Orion constellation and it's accompanying nebula? Sweet!

[@killmenow6982]

I have been waiting forever for this video! Thank you so much!

[@mkii1964]

Very cool, thank you for posting Scott!

[@tefras14]

17:35 things are getting hot when he is flying over Cyprus. How appropriate

[@Onychoprion27]

Scott, I'd love to see you do the International Space Station missions addon for Orbiter, where you construct the ISS module by module using Soyuz, Progress, and Shuttle. It'd take a lot of work, yes, but personally I'd be fascinated with it. I only got as far as the Quest mission, I think. Anyway, just a thought.

[@FoXenthusiast42]

How do you launch the Vostok 1?? I've pressed EVERY button!

[@patriotastronomer6780]

Thank you for the excellent history lesson! Always enjoy watching your videos. Also, 20 years later was the maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Fly safe!

[@steve1978ger]

Wow. What detail. So awesome. Much Soviet. Realistic night sky. Much prettier than the candy colored fantasy skies of other games. And that lush Soviet carpeting. Ah! I love it!

[@aplixtv3353]

Gagarin loved women, that is a fact, when they were on holiday in Krimea Gagarin was drunk and lock himself in a hotel room with a maid. When his wife started to scream he jumped out of the window. He hit his head an fall uncuncious (sorry my english is not so good) so they were worried sending him back to space. This is was in one book that i readed. Once again sorry for my engish

[@xerosfs]

@Pete is never wrong Honestly, most Americans have good English. *MOST*

[@xerosfs]

@Pete is never wrong oh, xD You're welcome I guess.

[@xerosfs]

@Pete is never wrong Once again, you're welcome.

[@PyroSAJ]

Bloody hell this is beautiful! One of the shortcomings still in (well, stock at least) KSP.

[@kebman]

Awesome! :D I really liked this _historical_ simulated illustration!

[@ianabruce]

Soon after his flight, Gagarin was assigned to play himself in the comedy "I Dream of Evgeniya" on Russian television. While Evgeniya' s powers of manifestation were limited to tins of herring in tomato sauce, this was considered magical by the standards of the time.

[@kaiserredgamer8943]

7:49 The island is Cyprus. You're heading towards Baikonaur.

[@robertbennett9949]

Thanks. Americans need longer vacation time.............

[@piplupsingularity]

Awesome, another Orbiter video!

[@rwsmith7638]

Great vid. I didn't know such a simulator existed.

[@wraine999]

At 18:13 it was cyprus at south and turkey at north

[@davidrenton]

he had bigger balls than the one he went to space in.

[@robertbennett9949]

The American were so furious at the success that he was not invited to the US, despite the fact that he visited 30 countries, including Canada.

[@chinchilla2302]

Very cool video, I'd definitely like to see more historical missions like this.

[@thephantomharanguer]

Tanks, cool vid. As a big part of my life has been about RF, the u-shaped antennae shown intrigue me.

[@jb111082]

"The Earth was blue, but there was no God." Yuri Gagarin

[@scottmanley]

Apparently Gagarin did not say this, it's not in any of the transcripts. It's believed that Nikita Krushchev attributed this quote to Gagarin during a speech about religion. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

[@jb111082]

Scott Manley I never knew that, Scott. Thanks for the info. P.S. I never meant that as an anti-religion statement, just as a quote from a famous cosmonaut.

[@samovarmaker9673]

Didn't Titov say that?

[@twistedyogert]

If I remember correctly, Yuri was not an atheist, he was Russian Orthodox.

[@tempname8263]

Back then all of Soviet Union was considered atheistic. And now everything what's left of it is considered christian.

[@nameitifyoucan]

I love russian rocket designs. The soyouz has to be the prettiest rocket in my mind

[@killmenow6982]

Nah, proton is

[@twistedyogert]

I gotta admit that the Vostok looks more comfortable than the Mercury.

[@termitreter6545]

Mercury was a lot more safe and realiable, though. The whole non-aerodynamic reentry and parachute thing is pretty sketchy. And lets not even talk about the 3 man vostok...

[@RustedCroaker]

There were never 3 man Vostok. That was Voskhod. Only 2 missions (including firts spacewalk) and it was replaced by Soyuz. BTW, spherical shape is more reliable in case of something go wrong and its ballistic was more predictable (easier to calcultae at the time). It can withstand any reentry profile, it doesn't need precise orientation.

[@igvc1876]

@@termitreter6545 There is nothing sketchy about a ballistic re-entry - it's uncomfortable, but it's absolutely safe.

[@GlowDarkBat]

I...just find these things to...facinating to watch!

[@sillyrunner1]

I'm so glad to see another Orbiter video. It's not just gameplay, I actually learned something about the first spaceflight.

[@scottmanley]

That's good, because there's not really much gameplay if you want to pretend you're Yuri Gagarin.

[@tiagogobbi3610]

Scott Manley OMG OMG OMG!!! THIS IS A NEW AND RIDICOLOUS NEW GAME??! I always play KSP but never see such realistic images like this! Where I buy this game? Steam?

[@sillyrunner1]

Search "Orbiter." It's a completely free and amazing space simulator. I've seen just about every space mission realistically added to the game through mods. It takes a bit of practice though. My favorites are the Apollo program missions. Hours of actual Apollo audio clips are added for each mission.

[@tiagogobbi3610]

Thank you sillyrunner!! But... What?! OMG OMD IT IS FREE?!?! IS IMPOSSIBLE MAN!! I can't believe! I will check for sure!

[@tiagogobbi3610]

sillyrunner1 Thank you sillyrunner!! but.. What?! OMG OMG IT IS FREE?!! IT IS IMPOSSIBLE MAN!!! I can't believe!! I will check and play for sure!!!

[@DmAlmazov]

"Поехали!" (с)

[@Fixxate]

What that mean?

[@linecraftman3907]

+RandomSpaceManInSpace lets go

[@ehnasan]

+RandomSpaceManInSpace this word Gagarin said on 1st second of flight, right after liftoff

[@excrafterhd3247]

😉

[@CD-iz4ul]

Уважаемый Дмитрий Изумрудов, использованная вами комбинация букв была зарегистрирована компанией "Союз космос" 12 апреля 1961 года. Для уточнения информации пожалуйста проследуйте на сайт [сайт не существует].

[@BorisGrishenco]

At the start Gagarin said: "Поехали!" Which is mean something like "Let's ride!"

[@namesarehardok8832]

Great video scott

[@ZemplinTemplar]

You were clearly flying over Cyprus, so yes, the Mediterranean. :-) Nice walkthrough of this Orbiter scenario. I've seen it before, but it's even better with commentary.

[@Mr66D]

The Motherland Knows The Motherland Hears When Her son is flying up in the clouds...

[@ParaglidingManiac]

Orbiter, Orbiter, Orbiter, Orbiter!

[@nimbly1693]

I met a guy once that had worked for NASA. He was a metallurgist that developed super strong bolts that when exposed to an electrical currant shatter. From what I understand that is how the shuttle separated.

[@deepujacob3419]

Explosive bolts are used for stage separations.

[@darkvincentslayer5911]

No matter what space game you play I always want to play it. Already purchased KSP and my friend is getting it now I got to find Orbiter. Cheers Mate.

[@gunmaster2796]

orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/download.html

[@cody13434]

TheCanadianPoliceman luckily it is free too. I would also recommend getting some mods such as the Delta Glider IV (DGIV) and Universal Cars and Cargo which contains a massive "mother" ship

[@StefanKorotynov]

My precious soviet ears! All the mispronunciations, all of them! :)

[@scottmanley]

Now you know what it's like to come from the UK and live in the US!

[@CommandLineVulpine]

I think its silly that not landing with your spaceship makes things not count. Its almost like saying Apollo doesn't count because it wasn't a direct ascent.

[@pyr0b1rd]

I suppose it's similar to how ejecting from a plane doesn't really count as landing it; similarly a plane you have to eject from in order to land is a bad design. I agree it's rather petty though, discounting things like that. But hm... they probably could have added something for a soft landing for the same weight of the ejection system but... given my experience remains solely with Kerbals I'm probably incorrect there. ^^;

[@CommandLineVulpine]

Keep in mind America landed their's in the ocean. I'm not sure if Mercury capsules could have landed on land. Russia is relatively land locked and if they were to mobilize their ships to conduct a water rescue other nations might have considered the ship movements aggressive.

[@hongtae2012]

Lance Elliott Soviet landing capsules use small retro thrusters to brake few meters above ground. How unfair they are land-locked. I heard that their rocket blew up above Australia and they have to convince that its not a nuclear test.

[@VidweII]

Lance Elliott Russia land locked? Don't be daft.

[@Oinikis]

As Gagarin wrote in his book, this achivement is for whole humankind. doesn't matter Russian, or American, this achivement is by whole humankind. like lunar landing. both Americans and Russian did lots of first, and Saturn V head designer, was Werner Von Braun, a german.

[@sega00709]

Спасибо за видео, Мэнли!

[@michaelmartin9022]

"They had to just aim for the Soviet Union" Big target, at least.

[@robertbennett9949]

And the nearest sea was the Artic Ocean!

[@zeekertron]

PLEASE PLEASE PLX PLZ PLOX DO MORE ORBITER VIDEOS!

[@dnskmv]

Great work, Scott. I like it. I am glad that the rocket opened the way for humanity into space, instead of to carry nuclear bombs across the ocean. And this is a real victory of reason.

[@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

This is the video where I discovered Scott Manley's YT channel. It showed up in my recommended and I've been subscribed ever since.

[@Sprengi86]

Apparently you forgot to take 'Near Space' science, you're starting to slack.

[@scottmanley]

I was doing scientific observations of my clipboard.

[@Sprengi86]

Scott Manley Yeah, but you forgot to take the science data from the capsule when you went EVA with your parachute.

[@R3bel02]

ICHBlNS Hahaha hilarious

[@gavrilmilokumov5763]

@@scottmanley great job!

[@Technoid_Mutant]

Gagarin's flight qualifies in all respects for a first. He took off in a spacecraft and landed with a part of that spacecraft. The Apollo program did the very same thing. Nothing that might be said about this subject affects Gagarin's courage or his own perception of this historic flight.

[@naominekomimi]

What are the four little beams of exhaust coming out of the engine when it fires? Why isn't all of the thrust directed out of the back?

[@dsny7333]

not sure,but I think maybe they were stabilizing thrusters that fired automatically to keep the spacecraft in the proper orientation .

[@petermcgarrymusicandflying]

Just loved this. Yuri is my hero

[@KOTYAR0]

Awesome! I will be visiting museum of RKK Energiya tomorrow!

[@tristenturner832]

idk, he landed in the chair he took off in. i would argue he landed with his spacecraft as much as any other multi stage spacecraft. his final stage just wast until after re-entry

[@illarionjabine6690]

It's really sad how tragically Yuri died while pilot testing a new military jet.

[@erictaylor5462]

I heard a story that he landed near a farmer, who asked, "Are you a space man?" and Yuri said, "Yes, I am." and hugged the guy. Probably not true, but I wish it was.

[@whiplash7400]

Eric Taylor That's a heartwarming story, but I don't think you can farm in a desert.

[@MrPashee]

@@whiplash7400 He landed in the centre of Russia and this story is true. After landing he had to find a phone in this village to call to Moscow)))

[@terryboyer1342]

@@MrPashee Why not AAA or it's Russian equiv?

[@olegator2203]

ОФИГЕТЬ!!! Я не думал, что можно сделать НА СТОЛЬКО реалистично! Лови лайк!

[@Yokopo_]

The old Russian rockets and capsules looked really cool. The N1 rocket being one of the more interesting designs, however it didn't really work out in the end...

[@msbuinov926]

Because the pesky people who funded the mission, cut of all funding just before the NK engine was brought into use...

[@NavyGuy2OO7]

Thoth themighty

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Liquid Hydrogen and wires are gone!

[@kujoforever]

5:19 did you mean to say визор? It's pronounced visor.

[@alexgshirreff]

Thanks for the correction I'm going to go look up his story again to refresh my memory

[@frankenstine4314]

Nicely done mod. I use to do a lot of scifi mods for Orbiter but stopped when I discovered KSP. I find KSP a lot more fun to play.

[@CountArtha]

17:50 - Cyprus, Turkey and Syria.

[@kevintsap3692]

Vzor is what you meant. It means "A look"

[@shoora813]

"Vizor" means a viewfinder

[@RexyCraxy]

@@shoora813 it was a NAME of the device. The word "vzor" can mean "view", "look [at]", "gaze" in Russian.

[@Phylonyous]

AWESOME STUFF!

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

3:39 notice the gap separating the stages--I understand that was to allow the upper stage to ignite before the lower one had even separated, and basically blow the latter away.

[@KayoMichiels]

Next up: project apollo mod! (or Mercury or even Gemini).

[@myofficetop]

Fun fact: In Russia, we call first stage boosters "Carrots"

[@robertbennett9949]

Well, they look like 4 carrots. I love the R7.

[@alexgshirreff]

Clearly I have spent to long researching this stuff after playing this brilliant mod myself

[@grahamsproductionz]

the spacecraft went into a slightly higher orbit than was expected and he would most likely died if the deorbit burn was unsucessful, BUT HE DIDN'T! well thats good mister Manley, thanks for spoiling our fun

[@liesdamnlies3372]

I should be more excited by this, it having happened, and being awesome, and being an important part of our history and so on, but it just doesn't compare to KSP.

[@dvl973]

but look at the size of the earth :) it looks like earth! kerbin is too small

[@liesdamnlies3372]

Yes. Sure. But KSP is more *fun*. The scaling in KSP is a clear design choice by the devs to not require players to sit through hours, and hours, and hours, of watching things move slowly, or ascend from Kerbin. There's enough of that with ion drives already.

[@maciejrozanski154]

***** You made a rocket that can pull itself on orbit by using ion engines o.O, tell me how.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

Janusz Kowalski You misunderstand. I was saying that ion drives are the rocket science equivalent of watching paint dry. It's true even with KSP's stock ion drives, and those are ridiculously overpowered when compared to reality. Not that I mind. The design choice to make Kerbin very dense results in quasi-realistic rocket sizes (okay not really, but at least they aren't tiny), but more importantly the relatively small size means that launching a rocket takes quite a bit less time than it does in real life. It's quite literally a difference between minutes and hours.

[@dvl973]

Janusz Kowalski you can't. You can make a plane though.

[@Jetsubou]

Your Russian is rather good! :)

[@ik2254]

No it isn't. Like at all.

[@KOTYAR0]

ikr, he knows actual WORDS! As a Russian, I'm super glad!

[@rawnukles]

That was great ! and I learned something.

[@therabbitswhisper]

they say you learn something new everyday....I feel enlightened

[@donzetjr6988]

Слава СССР!

[@scottmanley]

I really need to learn Russian.

[@mygooseshrine]

Glory to Arstotzka

[@Microlabization]

Scott Manley Gagarin said: "Poehali". (On English - Let's go). =)

[@scottmanley]

Microlabization Yep I knew it translated to 'Let's Go' but I wasn't going to ruin his enthusiasm by attempting to repeat his words badly.

[@AlfredqwertyZien]

There was one phrase in USSR. “Я выучил бы русский язык только за то, что на нём разговаривал Ленин”. - “I would learn Russian just because Lenin spoke it.” If you replace Lenin by Gagarin or Korolev or Tsiolkovsky, that may be suitable for you.

[@jdfj1041]

Do some catastrophic failures

[@Tarkalark]

Great video! Maybe people will find it in their heart to forgive you for the space shuttle payload bay door incident :D

[@Duckfisher0222]

When you are talking about the fuel pressure, i asked myself, in the real capsule, would it not have multiple gauges, as there are multiple fuel tanks?

[@IanTester]

It's a shame that Orbiter is only available for Windows.

[@scottmanley]

It is, I'd love to play it on my Mac

[@JosiahSiegel]

I would love to see you play more Orbiter. Also, "Let's go" in Russian is "Pahyekhali", (Поехали) stressed on the third syllable from the end.

[@CarolinaGroyper]

In the end, though, windows is better for gaming. Soyuz is my favourite rocket.

[@IanTester]

Carter Khoury Valve seems to think Linux is the future of gaming :)

[@Buda738]

Ian Tester Thats due to the fact that anyone can edit how Linux works.

[@Nightlurk]

I wonder how many people died before Yuri made it back alive. I wonder what was going through his head when he stepped into that capsule... It's sad that we'll never learn the names of the people that went up in space before him and never came back. It must have been a huge burden for him all his life, to be called a hero and praised by the entire world knowing what he probably knew.

[@scottmanley]

As best as we can tell, the only deaths of passengers up to this point were Dogs. There seem to be plenty of claims of prior cosmonauts, but none have ever been substantiated and many have been debunked since the program was declassified.

[@legoclone0965]

'only' dogs. Why can't Russia tell the truth, we might like them a little more. Well, not really, we threatened each other with nukes.

[@Nightlurk]

I know westerners have a hard time believing the extent to which the eastern governments were willing to take things back in the soviet era. For people that got to experience living in the communist block, the secret police, having your phone calls monitored, your lifetime neighbor being a secret state informant turning you in for making "inappropriate" jokes about the regime, people being picked up from their homes in the middle of the night never to be heard from again, and the list goes on... It's true that we have no evidence of actual deaths during the Russian space program, but coming from a regime who would send a man to be tortured and die in a political prison, just for talking about democracy with his friends one day, how hard is it to imagine what that government would do, only to save face in the eyes of the world... It's funny how, when talking about the WW2, everyone thinks the most suffering caused by that war was caused by the nazis, and then everyone thinks about the holocaust. And it's true, that was a very dark period in history. But what about the 50 years of rough communist oppression that the easterners had to endure after the west drew a line on the map and threw millions of people to the Russians.

[@tank_3487]

GoodGameHunter In USA phone calls are monitored now too(and emails and other things). And you can end in secret state prison after a conversation about islam. You would be surprised how many were tortured by US goverment orders. You would face fabricated accusations like Assange for speaking truth. Of course its more simple to live in ignorance.

[@NathanLucas5]

Damnit Scott I did not need this a week before finals!

[@waterlubber]

A week? Ha! I study on the bus.

[@Ratkill9000]

+waterlubber Study? I winged all my finals and barely passed high school.

[@lemaro1977]

cool video!

[@asparwhite86]

Very careful where they land because of the the cold war? Even after the end of the cold war, countries are very careful about where their space ships(and any flying vehicles) land. What space craft were ever designed to be piloted vs automatic? I do not understand how the fact that the space ship was controlled by a computer took anything away (rather I think it shows off how well designed and programmed their craft was).

[@1312_PV]

Yeah, the perfect automatic landing of the Buran in a strong cross-wind was a specially impressive feat of space automation IMO.

[@victorgigante5374]

+asparwhite86 It's strictly in contrast to the Mercury capsule, which was frequently hand-flown. There's an expression, "SPAM in a can," that describes how American astronauts felt their Soviet counterparts were treated. It basically means the cosmonauts were just payload, vs. astronauts being pilots. Was it accurate? Not necessarily - Gagarin had his override code, after all. But it's a reflection on the centralized and heavily authoritarian Soviet system that the spacecraft was designed to be operated first in a ground-controlled mode and only secondarily by its pilot.

[@nikelquint]

America got fined for littering when one of their spaceship parts landed on a different content. The fine was around 100$ from my memory

[@victorgigante5374]

IIRC, that was when Skylab reentered, and it hit in the Australian Outback. Incidentally, I don't think we ever paid the fine.

[@johnbrown9181]

@Victor Gigante A local radio station (IIRC it was in the US) did a fundraising event to pay for the fine 10 or so years later.

[@keiyakins]

Yuri Gagarin: Space Cheater. Jeb would be proud. I think the official records now are that he was the first human in space, but Shepard's flight was the first complete spaceflight? It's something ridiculous like that.

[@tank_3487]

Keiya Bachhuber Shepard flight did not even get him on orbit. Its actually debatable if it even can be counted as "actually be in space".

[@TheGreyhoundGames]

I mean Yuri did have one chance to go into space again aboard the first manned Soyuz flight, but with the way that things had been going it was not going to be a guarantee he'd come back in one piece. Hence why Vladimir Komarov, the other guy that was actually in line in front of him for the task, elected to go instead, even though he knew the risk as he knew Gagarin's legacy, and didn't want to see someone he greatly respected to possibly die on this sketchy as hell mission. Unfortunately, that was only good for Gagarin's sake as Komarov's craft did not deploy its parachute upon reentry and slammed into the ground at high speed.

[@saturn0660]

Wow, i need to download this again… Been a VERY long time it seems.