Funny story about this video: The original plan was to use ten parts since that was a nice even number, but I removed a decoupler at some point when trying to attach the boosters, so it ended up being nine parts. If you guys like the video I might try a more involved jool mission with even fewer parts!
@notatimelord212 жыл бұрын
Now go to eeloo with spark engines
@fRiX152 жыл бұрын
Go to Jool with Just 7 parts
@ArcadiaShibe2 жыл бұрын
CaN yOu gO to tHe MoOn wiTh OnE pART?
@The_Redstone_Robot2 жыл бұрын
Use only the least efficient boosters, not the least powerful, the least efficient. (Unless they are the same or one that you have already used.)
@fresanegra772 жыл бұрын
I have an idea for kerbal space, I know it is really easy to you but, I challenge you to get to the moon in KSP with the biggest and heaviest rocket possible :3
@snowboyz08252 жыл бұрын
"and I lost my fuel tank, and that makes burning fuel a lot harder" You don't say?
@catman4042 жыл бұрын
Hmmmmmmmm…
@litterallyjustwater2 жыл бұрын
Wait it does? No wonder my rockets don't work...
@ROM_ror22 жыл бұрын
Thought it'd make it easier due to less weight, now I know why my rockets don't work
@litterallyjustwater2 жыл бұрын
@@ROM_ror2 yea apparently rocket engines need combustible fuel to make the fiery stuff go out of the engine...
@hamburgerhamburgerv22 жыл бұрын
*then what is my rocket burning?*
@syntax67882 жыл бұрын
5:19 Reid Captain: “I actually do not understand what’s going on” The physics engine: “Me neither kid. Me neither”
@nightwolf72312 жыл бұрын
cries in kraken and all the other physic's monsters
@randomcarbonaccumulation64782 жыл бұрын
I know that people have used lithostaging and thermostaging on low-part-count challenges before, but krakenstaging is a first for me.
@wageofconsent25652 жыл бұрын
Yeah lol
@rawpotato17672 жыл бұрын
What do the first two mean?
@bruhmomentum-u7n2 жыл бұрын
@@rawpotato1767 Lithostaging is using the surface of a planet or moon to separate a craft, basically a fancy way of crashing. A good example of lithostaging is in Bradley Whistance's 2 part eve mission. Thermostaging is probably referring to using a booster's exhaust to burn away the part below it.
@nether_bat2 жыл бұрын
@@bruhmomentum-u7n thermostaging can also be done with a planets atmosphere, as seen in stratzenbltz75 3 parts to duna, ike and mintmus video
@net3432 жыл бұрын
@@rawpotato1767 burn parts with the atmosphere reentry effect (thermo) and crash parts (litho)
@hera56142 жыл бұрын
can i point out that this mission started at year 0, and ended at nearly year 500?
@YMandarin2 жыл бұрын
thats ksp interplanetary for you now imagine a grand tour with gravity assists...
@derpthefish9292 жыл бұрын
Kerbals are made of vegetables it doesn’t matter
@onurertas55672 жыл бұрын
yes.
@YMandarin2 жыл бұрын
@@derpthefish929 or fungi
@fork90012 жыл бұрын
@@YMandarin Fungi depend on organic matter for food. That’s not readily available, whereas with plants, you can recycle the water and food whilst getting a lot of light for photosynthesis.
@tixeright91202 жыл бұрын
Hey it only took 487 kerbin years. Imagine a earth-mission taking that long. The nations wouldn't even be the same nations, and the languages wouldn't be much the same either. If you don't care how long it takes, you can go anywhere you want in space, but you truly can't go home again!
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
Thats deep
@eee_eee2 жыл бұрын
Thats shallow
@Lily_of_Transnestria6 ай бұрын
Thats medium depth
@bharatkikhoj32495 ай бұрын
That’s medium shallow
@roboticfuzzball1794 ай бұрын
I really regret most my decisions
@JonahsEpicYT2 жыл бұрын
Well now we know that Kerbals have a lifespan of 450+ years
@aerodynamickerbal2 жыл бұрын
Imagine being Bob Kerman. The time has come for you to land, so you eject and deploy your parachute, as your capsule is still plummeting down to the ground. It explodes. As you touch down, you see a kerbal, confused. "Who are you?", the citizen asks you. You respond: "I'm Bob. Bob Kerman, famous kerbonaut, returning from a 500 year old mission" "Wait, weren't you in the crew of the Eeloo 9 parts?" "Yes, yes I was. Ah, good times they were... Hey, after all could you bring me to the Kerbal Space Center" "You mean that old place that didn't have active launches in half a millennium?" "I... Guess..." You both walk to his house, where you take a plane. But you recognise this plane. "Hey, what is your name?" "Im Jebediah Kerman" "J...Jeb?" "B...Bob?" This is your good old friend, Jeb. "What are you doing here, in the middle of nowhere?" "Well, since your launch we never really had launches. Just a satellite. That was going to search for you. We lost contact since year 1. We tracked a different craft that crashed into the Mun. After your loss, I just couldn't take it. I locked myself in my room in the Kerbonaut facility for 10 weeks. After 10 years we decided to stop missions. But you came back!" "Lets reboot the KSC, first lets get all kerbonauts!" You land near every kerbonaut's house and pick them up. The KSC is getting in sight. Gene Kerman is ok with it. After 500 years, its finally open again! The first launch is The Moho in 5 parts. It succeeded, so there are even more missions. Its still going!
@Williamslamaeiland2 жыл бұрын
Dude, reach out to Hollywood or something. "Kerbal Space Program: The Jeb-pire strikes back"
@aerodynamickerbal2 жыл бұрын
@@Williamslamaeiland Thats a job Matt Lowne can do
@Williamslamaeiland2 жыл бұрын
@@aerodynamickerbal yea
@iamdave26072 жыл бұрын
Bro fr wrote a whole fanfic in the comments
@janprijmeni29422 жыл бұрын
This comment is so underrated
@thebearslicer77362 жыл бұрын
you should try a multi-planet mission, like go to multiple planets in 1 mission
@Roaxial2 жыл бұрын
yeah, so like, he goes to a planet, then goes to another planet, but like, in the same mission
@LaplaceVI2 жыл бұрын
so basically you travel to another celestial body then within the same operation, or as some would say, mission, you then travel to a different, not-visited before in the same mission, celestial body.
@ewbaite2 жыл бұрын
Bradley whistance did a all planet bodys with no refiels so I doubt he can top that but we'll see
@alexsiemers78982 жыл бұрын
@@ewbaite no, he did refuel on every body but also did it in 10 parts. All planets without refueling is basically impossible due to the absurd part count involved.
@xandersfs23462 жыл бұрын
I’d really like to see that
@chaineryt92112 жыл бұрын
I’m a pretty new subscriber but I just want to say these videos are amazing! Just a tip for a game is stormworks build and rescue, it’s a really solid game with both planes and boats! Anyways I love your videos!
@T-minus-infinite2 жыл бұрын
I have been suggesting this for months, glad im not the only one
@The_Bird_Bird_Harder2 жыл бұрын
Some people love stormworks, some people hate stormworks, they are the same person.
@The_Bird_Bird_Harder2 жыл бұрын
Also you can make sail powered trains it's awesome.
@ctvaughan66232 жыл бұрын
Man those kerbels must live a long time. This was a 487 year long mission and he still looks good as new
@m.n.m.ink.7842 жыл бұрын
I suggest you do a mission to jool using every single part only once, no more, no less.
@limeylime80272 жыл бұрын
Ahhh I see, so it is possible to get to eeloo with 9 parts And it only took 500 years!!
@serendipity-tilde2 жыл бұрын
*Kerbal years They are very different to earth years.
@ididntaskforthat82082 жыл бұрын
They are like 1/10th of what our years are lol
@fangier02 жыл бұрын
@@ididntaskforthat8208 Still it took 50 years
@Warriorking.19632 жыл бұрын
I'm just glad I wasn't the one to open the hatch when Bob finally landed back on Kerbin! 💩🥴
@andreipoplauschi1802 жыл бұрын
@@ididntaskforthat8208 so...50 years...while that is a lot shorter in the long run someone in there 20 to 30s would still die of old age by the time the mission is done
@ThatTwoPolishGuy2 жыл бұрын
487 years 💀
@bartoszkola6212 жыл бұрын
Your video convinced me to try the low part challange. I managed to go to Eeloo and back with only 3 parts. The rocket and takeof is similar to stratzenblitz 3 parts mission with thermostaging which gave me 3100 m/s dv. Then I've used gravity assist chain of Kerbin-Mun-Eve-Eve-Kerbin-Jool-Tylo to get to Eeloo with only 1650 m/s. The circulization at 5k took around 350 m/s. Then used a mass driver to launch my pilot (just like stratzenblitz/danny2462) to the surface. The pilot had an extra eva fuel tank and managed to land, plant a flag, go back to orbit and rendezvous with rocket. After that I've spent 400 m/s to go back to Jool and then used another 200 m/s doing gravity assists of Tylo-Laythe-Jool-Tylo-Jool-Laythe to slingshot to Eve. Then spent another 200m/s to go back to Kerbin and aerobreak enough to capture an orbit burning the rest of my fuel (around 250 m/s) and go home. The mission was tedious and took 28 years of in game time. Gravity assist is the core of the low part missions. For calculating and doing the multiple gravity chains I've used KSP Trajectory Optimization Tool and mechjeb.
@eee_eee2 жыл бұрын
I suggest going to a more professional channel with better learned people
@bartoszkola6212 жыл бұрын
@@eee_eee I enjoy watching Reid KSP jurneys. He has potential to be very good at this game and i'm counting on him.
@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын
Using a Mammoth engine on a decoupler with a high-efficiency engine behind it is what I did for my fuel tanker. As I wasn't going for minimalism, I used a Poodle engine. (I didn't have the Wolfhound, nor 5m parts either.) The first time I launched it, the long tanker slowly keeled over on the launch pad! :D This was with a 3.5m decoupler! It was like yours but with much less bouncing and a slower initial tilt. I had no way of knowing autostrut existed at the time, so I had to add a load of struts to steady it. The tanker worked out really well, though it does tend to have burn times as long as nuclear ships. One day, I had 3 11-minute burns in a row: this huge tanker, a large nuclear ship, and a tiny ion probe, though the ion probe broke the combo by running out of electricity. :)
@TheEpicDragonCat2 жыл бұрын
Cool challenge, but might I point out that Eve and Kerbin are way better for gravity assists. Yes they have bigger atmospheres, but way more gravity. Therefore you only need 3 or so assists to get to Jool instead of 8. The best way to do it is slingshot off Eve, then Kerbin, and Kerbin again.
@Delphinus-Keya Жыл бұрын
You take 9 parts to Eeloo, while I use the equivalant of an American fuel refinery to get to the Mun lol. Good Job.
@gamerboy72242 жыл бұрын
This is Really impressive! good job! A few tips i have Are: 1) you can more efficiently gravity-assist off of eve and kerbin, as they have much higher gravities than duna 1b) So at the start, you could have done an E-K-K-(D?)-J gravity assist instead of a thousand duna ones. 1c)The same could be said the return, you could have used jool to get an eve/kerbin GA which would have significantly sped up the process and increased efficiency. 2) maybe try somehow getting rid of the nosecone? Or get rid of the need for one, I think there is some sort of bug with heat shields or fairings of the sort that allow using the kraken to get rid of drag 3) not really a tip but using an ion engine with an RTG could work, although i'd rather not put you through the ultimate trial of patience especially considering you don't have Better Time Warp
@ismailaliyavuz96712 жыл бұрын
Ultime trial of patience cjkgngkgng How long it takes?
@tackyinbention62482 жыл бұрын
I think that you could have saved even more deltav by bringing bill instead! cus he is an engineer kerbal so he can move small parts like nose cones and engines
@notjebbutstillakerbal Жыл бұрын
Remember an antenna.
@erher14332 жыл бұрын
I always forget you play KSP and think it's Matt so I click and get a nice suprise :D
@inc0mingr0flc0pter2 жыл бұрын
In the year 2500 AD: Oh, you’re back!
@0utta_n0wh3re32 жыл бұрын
This is the most under-rated channel surprised you're not already at a million subs. Hope to see it.
@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne85982 жыл бұрын
I doubt it's possible to get to 1 million subs with KSP content. Some channels just cover niche content and that's fine. Not like sub count ever was an indicator of quality.
@DarkSlayer95872 жыл бұрын
It's been a few years since I've played ksp, but iirc there's a mod called scatterer that would let you turn up the ship ambient light even when on the backside of planets. Really useful for you to videos since KZbin likes to make dark things darker.
@vikkimcdonough61532 жыл бұрын
You can do that in the stock game settings as well (look for the "Ambient Light Boost" sliders).
@DarkSlayer95872 жыл бұрын
@@vikkimcdonough6153 ooo new feature!
@blueshirt10742 жыл бұрын
I like how you manage to do things i will not be able to do in a lifetime
@tvbot64962 жыл бұрын
What color is your shirt?
@camera19462 жыл бұрын
@@tvbot6496 I think its brown. idk.
@tvbot64962 жыл бұрын
@@camera1946 maybe it’s a new color
@blueshirt10742 жыл бұрын
@@tvbot6496 i invented it 😎
@Cysfer2 жыл бұрын
Just a casual 487 year long mission.
@kopazwashere5 ай бұрын
13:55 139 years in, bob hasn't aged a bit (and still living). we are lucky kerbals didn't figure out where we live
@RedHarlow18862 жыл бұрын
Idea, getting to orbit with only RCS thrusters
@mkzhero2 жыл бұрын
That's pretty easy actually
@alexanderkuhn22982 жыл бұрын
If you ever want to offset multiple engines again you can view the "center of thrust" by clicking an icon in the lower left in the VAB. If its to the left or right of your center of mass your rocket will spin around! So just move them until they line up and presto you got a goofy rocket that works now
@mr.crumpet52246 ай бұрын
big ups to Bob for spending 500 years in space 🔥
@Personofvideo2 жыл бұрын
The rocket of cheap
@nightwolf72312 жыл бұрын
using the shock drop method I see for the boosters, very useful for minimalist challenges only works for up to two boosters as far as I know though
@EmberBlaze992 жыл бұрын
This ship was held together with duct tape and parallel universes
@thatoneguy89662 жыл бұрын
1:22 the rocket hits that yoinky sploinky
@ryuk56732 жыл бұрын
Nice job dude! 🎉 fun fact: less than 5% of players have visited Eeloo.
@MobileTech2962 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile I can barely land on the Mun. lol. It's amazing to me that people are still doing crazy things in KSP after all these years.
@chiip902 жыл бұрын
Nearly 500 years? By the time he made it home he was probably orbiting next to high schoolers on their space scooters....
@jimbojimberson99342 жыл бұрын
Have you tried messing with the lighting settings? It should be possible to tune some brightnesses such that no matter how dark it is, you can still see your ship, or at least have some footage you can darken to your desired brightness in post.
@cowerdnerddespacito95182 жыл бұрын
487 years and 257 days Holy hell that’s a long ass time Rip that kerbal Must have been bored as hell
@lilpumpofficial10482 жыл бұрын
Bruh I barely got to the mun in science mode with 50+ parts XD
@thebluehat68142 жыл бұрын
in some points you didnt need aerodynamic parts, instead if you placed an object at a node it would occupy it and apply the drag, but if you were to move it below the actual point, no drag would apply, so if you were to place an engine on top of the lander capsule, rotate it 180 degrees and move/clip it where it should be, it would work as intended and save you the cone at the top
@arandomstragnger28072 жыл бұрын
Awsome video keep up the great work mate u doing great
@wezzyuwezzuy93382 жыл бұрын
nice one, just a 500years trip to Eeloo and back :P
@Noah_7s2 жыл бұрын
You should do a whole mission without ever reloading a save, that should be a hard challenge
@YMandarin2 жыл бұрын
did you try removing the nosecone? I think it would work without it, and that would save a part and a lot of weight on the top
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
It would have been nice yeah. I thought about it a little but since 10 parts was my goal anyway I just left it on
@mkzhero2 жыл бұрын
Nope. Nose cones barely weigh anything, even the biggest ones, yet they allow to save way more delta v than the extra weight deducts. There's almost never a reason to NOT use them.
@danielstatler9542 жыл бұрын
You don't need decouplers, you can just melt off the lower parts with engines
@OlaftheGreat2 жыл бұрын
ah yes, finally landing after 44 years
@cesaramaral7007 Жыл бұрын
"That was a pretty cheap maneuver" it only cost half a millennia lmao. Good ol' Bob is about 500 years old now.
@aimro69982 жыл бұрын
dude you make some of the best content in the world. and you should try satisfactory
@ewbaite2 жыл бұрын
I hope you can beat Scot Manley's record of 5 part Duna. You can save a decoupler by simply burning off the last stage
@Logarithm9062 жыл бұрын
or decouple by colliding the offending part with the Mun.
@BananaBlaster642 жыл бұрын
You do know that stratzenblitz75 went to duna, ike and minmus in a single mission with 3 parts right?
@jd_the_cat2 жыл бұрын
@@BananaBlaster64 time to do it with 2.
@alertlucasalexander9994 Жыл бұрын
man hes to bad to do that
@pastashack35176 ай бұрын
Title: [question] Thumbnail: [answer] Cool, guess I don't need to watch! Thanks for saving me some time!
@flyingwondercat7392 жыл бұрын
Great vid Reid!
@Vinnie_7282 жыл бұрын
there's an option to turn up the minimum brightness, it makes night just a little brighter
@brycedarnell73952 жыл бұрын
Man was in his capsule for 487 years and 257 days!
@spawnnumber21265 ай бұрын
3:49 I've also had that weird problem where large parts will just randomly slip off. Not sure why this happens though...
@Cryton123452 жыл бұрын
I was gunna say you forgot your drouge shooots but apparently forgot that kerbals got parachutes now lol
@mortenholm98782 жыл бұрын
love you vids keep it up!
@r9hu91h9r12 жыл бұрын
In KSP2, can you try to get to another star system without an interstellar engine?
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
Cannot wait for that game to come out, and that's a good idea!
@profesionalshark2253 Жыл бұрын
If he can get to eeloo and back with 9 parts, YOU can fly to the mun with less than 200.
@Crimsonedge12 жыл бұрын
Nile? Is that you?
@raymerritt7622 жыл бұрын
Like every good rocket scientist, just hope that the structural stability fails and you can get rid of weight without decouplers
@zerotakis2 жыл бұрын
Misson Success! *Hooray* You are not lost in the Ocean. *Oh no*
@slothomatic2 жыл бұрын
Tries to attach boosters with just static electricity. Gets confused when they fall off.
@chris-21052 жыл бұрын
The NileRed of kerbal space program
@bigcringeclips80282 жыл бұрын
You are the Nilered of gaming
@bonkaiblue79062 жыл бұрын
#idea #suggestion , Launch Tube Like a Angled Tube to launch out of like an old style Grenade launcher
@quentinking43512 жыл бұрын
If you mount your "deep space" engine pointing the opposite direction as the 1st stage tank, you could transfer fuel into a potentially better vacuum Isp engine. Maneuvers would then be reversed though, so be careful.
@alexanderkuhn22982 жыл бұрын
You can change the navball reference by right clicking the command pod/probe core of a ship and selecting "reverse" under control point to make that idea even easier
@quacktape2 жыл бұрын
I've been waiting since day one for that coil gun. A I will keep waiting.
@curlybrace49842 жыл бұрын
Random question, are you nilered? You sound exactly like nilered in every way possible.
@AmateurAstronomer098 ай бұрын
poor Bob being stuck in a box for 500 years 😭
@Brovioli2 жыл бұрын
5:20 Could you turn off auto struts on the boosters to decouple them?
@doug44312 жыл бұрын
5 minutes in and I finally realized Eeloo wasn’t Minmus. Damn I’m dumb.
@kinzietheostrichman2 жыл бұрын
How in the holy turkey potato chip are you doing this?! That is a feat of tech in the kdrbzl world!!
@ewbaite2 жыл бұрын
Scot manley did it in 5 parts
@mrhax47412 жыл бұрын
May i suggest using "Smashing Windshields" as the background music? It would've fit this video p well considering how dumb some of the glitches were. 😂
@ethanspiegler82912 жыл бұрын
You can’t use a small decoupler because it has like no structural stability with the size of parts you were using. The green dots that show connections tell you how strong the connection is. Big green circle means stronger connection small green circle means weaker connection.
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
True, good thing autostrut exists!
@ethanspiegler82912 жыл бұрын
@@ReidCaptain Yeah, but sometimes with some pieces (I’ve noticed) the kraken pays a visit. Also, high G - Forces can snap the connection.
@adamobrien923 Жыл бұрын
great video! what mods did you use for the timewarp?
@snowboyz08252 жыл бұрын
Try building an onrithopter that would work irl
@Mavkka2 жыл бұрын
You should raise your gamma (maybe that's what it's called?) setting within the game so that your ships are more visible while in a planet's shadow
@nottelling81292 жыл бұрын
When are we getting part 2 of the Eve rescue mission?
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
Very soon
@eaeaeeaeae8238 Жыл бұрын
why didnt you just do a mun gravity assist to escape kerbin's SOI?
@BonziBuddy.2 жыл бұрын
I love these vids
@Totally_Bonkers2 жыл бұрын
i honestly forgot less than 10 parts still meant big parts so i was like "how he gonna get to eeloo and back using such a small rocket?"
@maxboskeljon64402 жыл бұрын
Great vid again! Interesting how you refuse to play any game as it was designed haha. Like an overengineerd "Let's game it out" lmao
@5S3EB82 жыл бұрын
Will you ever play spaceflight simulator?
@FlatDrifting2652 жыл бұрын
That game is way to easy for this guy
@The_SiIIy_0ne2 жыл бұрын
Get outta here Elon we got a 10 dollar rocket
@ashtonisvibin5612 жыл бұрын
What about visiting all the planets/moons in one trip, it would be hard af but really awesome
@ashtonisvibin5612 жыл бұрын
@GOOPREALM5000 there is only 1 gas giant in the entire game...
@fangier02 жыл бұрын
@@ashtonisvibin561 I think he meant in our solar system, but we have 4 gas giants and 4... ground minions? I don't know how they are called.
@tTRITUS2 жыл бұрын
@@fangier0 terrestrial planets
@CattyTatty2 жыл бұрын
gonna buy ksp soon, does anyone have any tips for starting off?
@the25thdoctor2 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or does Reid Captain sound like Nile Red?
@the25thdoctor2 жыл бұрын
@Danijelovski Kanal but no, he does… just listen to one of Nile’s vids and Reid's vids back and forth
@KerbalLauncher Жыл бұрын
Wouldnt the poodle engine work better as an upper stage?
@sid52902 жыл бұрын
You should try to do every gravity assist possible to get to dres and do the same to get back to kerbin
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
It would be so counterproductive but that is funny
@serendipity-tilde2 жыл бұрын
Quick question: Do gravity "assists" like flying to eeloo to gain some speed towards duna count despite being incredibly wasteful?
@sid52902 жыл бұрын
@Danijelovski Kanal Ooh, intresting, didnt know that
@1mariomaniac2 жыл бұрын
*how long do kerbals live?...*
@CertifiedAnything2 жыл бұрын
Idea: They live forever.
@michaelfarrell48242 жыл бұрын
No, my Kerbal would run out of food and oxygen with that many parts
@JM-pq1rs2 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile I can pull a one way trip to the mun with 300 parts...
@tonk38412 жыл бұрын
next video: going to andromeda and back using a potato powered rocket
@NotaTechGuy1772 жыл бұрын
Possible challenge: get to the surface of Eve and back as fast as you can (minimal mission time)
@dannypipewrench5332 жыл бұрын
0:31 This man puts a LEM Ascent Stage atop a freaking S-IC with 4 RS-25 engines. CHECK THAT: There are jettisonable engines, meaning it is an S-ID, not an S-IC.
@pokegeaks22 жыл бұрын
This dude sounds like NileRed playing KSP
@twig46612 жыл бұрын
use the command chair, honestly swapping it for the capsule would probably give you like 1500 delta v
@MrSuperPatar2 жыл бұрын
so interesting. holy frigg
@sammorgan312 жыл бұрын
If you do your correction burns at periapsis of your gravity slingshot you'll get way more bang for your fuel buck.