Apollo³ - To the Moon and back THREE TIMES in one launch! KSP RSS/RO

[@toastmeister6806]

Imagine having to make sure there aren’t any fuel leaks anywhere in that multi kilometer tall stack lol

[@AzureImperium7701X]

Fuel leaks don’t matter. They leak and infinitesimal amount compared to the fuel tank size

[@Gdcat1472]

Sls moment

[@fork9001]

it’s solid fuel so no high pressure.

[@seantaggart7382]

That would be just SCREW IT

[@mahuba2553]

i like to believe that is the only thing wrong with a multi kilometer rocket

[@arandomdragon1534]

61 seadragon main engines... "Its not much thrust"

[@SirNobleIZH]

I was gonna say the same thing

[@AzureImperium7701X]

You know your rockets big when it’s 20% to space before it’s launched

[@peanutsandvich1319]

At this point just building a literal space elevator to the Moon might be more cost effective lol

[@skyrocks12]

you know your rocket is big when the rcs thrusters are the size of a normal rocket

[@draknight5081]

@@peanutsandvich1319 counterpoint: haha funni roket

[@AluminumOxide]

How ridiculous are these KSP rockets gonna get. You’re smashing world records man! I dunno if the Kraken likes it anymore

[@kiemenkevin9624]

The kraken is just in a corner shivering and begging for forgiveness

[@Nyx42112]

The kraken didn't like it when he did two trips

[@TDChannelKSP]

Kraken doesn't like it at all! Tore it apart many, many times. Luckily I have editing on my side...

[@trainzderails2008]

@@TDChannelKSP Should we do a Apollo4 or Apollo5 ? Maybe Apollo5 the top stage is out of the atmosphere. At least we dont have to launch the first stage but instead the second or top?

[@rogaclaura1631]

Thank you

[@jocax188723]

I’m surprised there was anything to go back to, after the impact of that city-sized spent first stage.

[@TDChannelKSP]

Repair teams really did good work, reconstructing Florida in only a week!

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

@@TDChannelKSP Florida doesn’t need no repair teams, the Florida men crawl out of the swamp and in a drunken fever and cobble society back together in mere days.

[@horiginsfs7561]

@@Electric_Bagpipes lmfao

[@Dominion69420]

>Sends the crew ahead to avoid radiation exposure in the van allen belts >Also walks them right next to a bunch of Nerva IIs

[@thekeithfulbarrums]

And then the Saturn 5 turned itself into a spaceplane, funniest shit I ever seen

[@angelsachse9610]

And then it started drifting!

[@Philippines-animations]

"Ah yes the Saturn shuttle"

[@chaosenforcerdhm969]

As all ships should be

[@LimeJuice0308]

In 2030: landing the moon on a Saturn V

[@Gdcat1472]

Gru would 100% do that

[@jambothejoyful2966]

THREE TIMES

[@PoorlyWindow549]

@@jambothejoyful2966 four times

[@ididntaskforthat8208]

@@PoorlyWindow549 five times

[@BradKesalowski]

@@ididntaskforthat8208 six times.

[@polarbear4620]

i love how the rocket is so large people are comparing it to asteroids instead of mountains/ buildings at this point

[@TDChannelKSP]

Yup, it's similar to Phobos. Would be funny to land it there...

[@jambothejoyful2966]

@@TDChannelKSP that, is a video idea I can see it now: “landing Phobos on Phobos”

[@Yaivenov]

@@TDChannelKSP do crafts of the same mass as the object they land on. What's the largest you think you could pull off?

[@proxy3386]

@@TDChannelKSP It’s also the literal size of C I T I E S.

[@SirNobleIZH]

​@@YaivenovE A R T H

[@TexanMiror2]

When the Tyranny of Kerbalkind is greater than the Tyranny of the rocket equation.

[@SuprSBG1]

Yep

[@Zaca1349]

I love the fact that part of the rocket it cubed. :)

[@drj221221]

For reference, 6.4 billion tons is more than 100 times the weight of the Great Wall of China, which is currently the heaviest man-made object.

[@Thefreakyfreek]

MAN made because your grandmother made the heaviest human made opject Im joking no disrespect to your mother

[@RileyMarkley]

I wonder how many times back and forth it takes for the rocket to be bigger than earth...

[@sigstackfault]

Probably four.

[@40watt53]

4.

[@Mac33299]

If a rocket is large enough you don't even need an engine... It would have already reached the moon

[@fork9001]

Maybe between 10 and 30

[@johnadler6987]

@@Mac33299 At that point... it's not a rocket, it's just a giant bridge...

[@jeffery7281]

Just why using chemical rocket doing interstellar travel is completly, entirely, absolutely, definitly, ridiculous, ludicrously, hilariously, and insanely. TD have proved to us for once and more time, and he will continuing to prove it with his surrealistic works.

[@RealEmerald]

I don’t know what’s more impressive. The fact that he went to the moon and back 3 times, or the fact that the giant launch vehicle held together.

[@docnathan3959]

Imagine the impact force of the dropped first stages.

[@dydunyatv4286]

A MASS EXTICION LIKE K-T EXTICION 💀💀

[@Terrariatheuniversejooj4205]

the first part is not very heavy when there's no fuel depends

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

Doomsday

[@hstochla]

I hope there will be a time in human history when we are so wealthy and powerful that we can do stuff like this lime it’s nothing

[@comicman3173]

that first stage by itself is a mass extinction event when it deorbits

[@ccib00]

It's still absurd to see that gigantic Christmas tree to pluto sized rocket is needed. I see you have optimized the Apollo^2 part as well. Crew station, Vasimr flowers, and graceful shuttle saturn V! Great video as always!

[@Gdcat1472]

Flowers?

[@TDChannelKSP]

Yup. Finally a "reasonable" use! Definitely wanted to make the Apollo^2 part more interesting instead of a copy paste, and who knows how large it would be without it! Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@howlowrycanyougo9233]

@@TDChannelKSP u should do apollo^4 lol

[@HarryLarsson-b2n]

​​@@TDChannelKSPapollo tesseracted

[@netric9084]

Alright, we all know what's next. Number 4 You better get on it, TD.

[@pikazilla6405]

As someone who got this video randomly recommended to me months ago, I can’t get over my first time experience of watching TD wasting ZERO TIME with less than a minute into the video showing off a mountain sized rocket as if I’m supposed to know why it’s that absurdly large in the first place, I didn’t realize it was part of a series or that it was nearly that difficult to get to the moon and back in the first place so my confusion and excitement was at all time peak, also if there was any testament to how much better ksp 1 is to ksp 2 this videos very existence is proof enough, you probably couldn’t recreate this on three nasa computers in ksp 2

[@sp_epic]

13:22 you dropped the most downright despicable transition know to humanity and thought no one would notice

[@truppelito]

You have a cinematographer's eye. 23:31 is totally a movie-quality shot, and I do not believe it was by accident. I loved this!

[@party4lifedude]

Seeing the giant rocket nozzle blocking out the sun over the VAB just hovering there ominously, and then firing up and vaporizing the entire complex and the surrounding area like a nuclear bomb made me laugh out loud.

[@TDChannelKSP]

Haha, well then - mission accomplished! :)

[@isn4957]

everyone: lets make a efficient rocket stage. TD: haha big engines go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@ShockedCaucasian]

This man drifted a fing saturn V space plane, thats SWAG. haha loved the video

[@fris209]

Can't imagine how he gonna do apollo¹⁰

[@topsecret1837]

You mean Apollo^11

[@fwdgd]

bro gonna make a rocket the size of the earth 💀

[@CardZed]

@@fwdgd Easy way to get to the moon is making a rocket thats already as tall as its orbit

[@af8312]

yea that'd just be a fucking space elevator

[@byte7645]

it would be 10,000,000,000,000x heavier than earth

[@JV64]

everyone gangsta until TD turns the Saturn V into a Space Shuttle 💀

[@Danisaiah1]

At this point, if it gets any bigger it's gonna break physics itself. but considering my options on what to do next, we should do mars squared, let us see how big it gets now! >:3

[@tsurutuneado5981]

With that amount of thrust you can push the Earth directly into the Moon

[@red1246]

ok, at this point the apollo^4 launch vehicle will be tall enough to straight up touch the moon...

[@Hiperruimteindustriee]

Last year: apollo squared. Now: cubed. That is an increase of one power per year, thus, next year ⁴, then ⁵ then ⁶...

[@Spaceman0025]

His great great great grandchildren will be doing Apollo 16286543

[@SHD69]

I cannot imagine how powerful your computer is: building, launching and recording such a big rocket? that's insane

[@minibigbox9897]

Appolo2:oh okay, whery cool Appolo3:apocalypse class nuke Appol04:☠️

[@sqdqdssdzf4443]

Appol04 you use a small ladder on top of the rocket you are already in space 🤣

[@joncailensulit6223]

By the time TD Channel does apollo ^4, the engines would be earth sized...

[@dydunyatv4286]

a better solution: place A small moon rocket in the apollo spaceplane

[@bundlesofun9568]

I like how its so big it literally just starts both landed and in space.... genius xD

[@xander2853]

When you know what mod every part is from you know you have an obsession

[@ASYT129]

respect to the engineer who made that costume....three landing, but oxygen still there.

[@moqube]

this man must be the most patient person on this planet! (considering how low the fps (or rather how high the seconds per frame) must be)

[@MatthewV1016]

this is the most beautiful thing ive have ever seen in ksp

[@phofers]

I don’t know what the heck I’m watching but I’m glad I’m watching it.

[@brianchan8]

Big rocket

[@thememery767]

@@brianchan8big rokt

[@wilboersma9441]

The Saturn V space shuttle... was amazing. Magnificent.

[@thehingelforge6608]

This man wiped out entire KSC and Cape Canaveral by pressing one button

[@boaz7927]

It sounds like you're talking about nukes

[@Niskan40]

And then there's me who cannot even put anything substantial in orbit in RSS/RO XD Great video as always!

[@tateranus4365]

i have made orbit in rss a few times, once i even tried to send a impactor to the moon but couldn't get to the plane of the moon because mechjeb was thinking i didn't have the dv when i did, just to test it i tried it with a 27 kilo payload and it still didn't work.

[@mahatmaghabdu7592]

Imagine making rendezvous with an asteroid and it starts orbiting you lmao

[@amateuryoutuber]

Can't wait for Apollo quad

[@vulcann4291]

when 61 sea dragon engines is "not much thrust"

[@nomekop777]

As a space engineers player, stage 8 is almost getting within the realm of doable

[@DrBlort]

First video I've seen on this channel, never played with RSS/RO... man... this WAS INSANE! I loved it! Subscribed instantly

[@TDChannelKSP]

Glad you liked it! Welcome to the channel, enjoy your stay :)

[@oshjosh134]

Now were waiting for Apollo to the power of 4

[@netherite9051]

Apollo : Saturn V Apollo² : pancake Apollo³ : Trafic cone of hell

[@Owlberightback]

A rocket launch so powerful it annihilates states with every launch

[@reptilesarecool9763]

Apollo^4 when?

[@idkanymore6897]

i cant imagine how much lag you had to suffer through, how long did the final launch take to actually complete?

[@TDChannelKSP]

The initial launch wasn't too bad, maybe 30 minutes or so. In reality it took longer than that due to many kraken attacks and re-launches.

[@RealFAFairman_Official]

2025: Freedom Rocket: 1000% Reusable Ultra Rocket (All Rockets Combined Together)

[@jamesheath5657]

Next time on TD channel, Apollo4!

[@Countryballsandstuff999]

Approved!

[@devikwolf]

21:15 is the point where it became unrealistic, because it looks like KSP's wheel physics is actually being a wheel instead of a ski.

[@nuclear173gamer2]

I’m concerned to see what appolo^4 would look like

[@CatPerson6048]

Man I love when this happens

[@tuerculosisgaming6307]

Now we(I) need mars²

[@CatPerson6048]

@@tuerculosisgaming6307 I can agree with you

[@MrJ4zzy]

Einstein, Newton and literally any other physicist: *commits sudoku*

[@theairispure4314]

1:05 You made a rocket the size of the *CHICXULUB ASTEROID,* which is the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, it is 15 kilometers wide. **Stage Milestones** 1:36 - STAGE 1 (100 TN Thrust, *6.4 GIGATONS* *(12.8 TRILLION pounds))* 1:57 - STAGE 2 (14 TN Thrust) 2:12 - STAGE 3 (3.3 TN Thrust) 2:51 - STAGE 4 (190 GN Thrust, 12,360,359 Tons (27,249,927,065 pounds)) 3:33 - STAGE 5 (3.8 GN Thrust, 4,196,119 Tons (8,392,238,000 pounds)) 10:25 - STAGE 6 (4.68 GN Thrust, 380,259 Tons (838,327,594 pounds) 11:01 - STAGE 7 (1.87 GN Thrust, 152,906 Tons (337,100,027 pounds)) 11:34 - STAGE 8 (52.8 MN Thrust, 20,553 Tons (45,311,609 pounds)) 12:31 - STAGE 9-A (867 Kn Thrust, 162 Tons (324,000 pounds)) 13:48 - STAGE 9-B (3 Kn Thrust, 40 MW nuclear energy, 13,805 Tons (30,434,815 pounds)) 15:01 - STAGE 10 (19.941 MN, 10,085 Tons (22,784,775 pounds)) Also, for reference, Stage 1 has over *10 BILLION TONS* of thrust, all from that one humongous SRB. That is over 150x the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest bomb ever detonated.

[@yukon09]

how to cause a mass extinction event with every launch

[@Apollozy]

very nice! i literally have nothing else to say because of the impresiveness of this rocket. can u do apollo4 pls

[@henjoyer]

my god... hes done it again

[@billiejodemello1304]

Apollo^4 ????

[@Suppise152]

Soon the rockets going to be so big that it’ll act as a space elevator

[@nashpeleuses]

What's next, apollo going to the moon and back 1000 times?

[@dydunyatv4286]

Size of rocket is 1 gogolplex light year 💀

[@maxwelllittle5291]

Apollo to the Fourth Power will just be the rocket touching the moon from the pad.

[@SWDennis]

Triple nice!

[@Arandomguy111]

I think this would be HELL for everyone 100km close to the Apollo³ in its first stage. Also great video!

[@fork9001]

I thought i said “Apollo to the power of negative 3” but you know what… this is more than enough

[@somestarman892]

Now Apollo^4 is next.

[@artemwaynes]

Awesome, now waiting for The Archive ...

[@Michael-o2s3k]

Imagine if Apollo 13 used this rocket. That would be terrifying.

[@Michael-o2s3k]

Also the Saturn 5 was originally supposed to use NERVAs.

[@Mr.person83]

The switch between rock and classical music is insane.

[@nomekop777]

*spends a year in orbit of the moon to avoid the van Allen belts* *checks out the super cool yellow thing on the engines once landed*

[@sfsa3134]

20:00 the most cursed but amazing scene i have ever seen.

[@LupusMechanicus]

That was amazing well done!

[@ayoubbelatrous9914]

casually using an aj-260 as sep motor

[@sp_epic]

this comment represents a true person of culture

[@Locutusofborg41]

Nice work. There were some really nice shots in this one. How many ignitions are the sea dragon's configured for? Are they fully throttleable?

[@TDChannelKSP]

Thank you! It might be a silly rocket but I'll still film it to the best of my abilities. There are no official RO configs for the SD engines, so I just made them run on the proper fuels - fully throttleable and unlimited ignitions. Which might sound silly but: - Since all the engines were used in single-part clusters, "throttling" could be achieved in stages of shutting down engines - Sea Dragons engine is supposed to be relatively simple, literally pressure fed, so making it relightable is maybe possible? Provided the engine can be ignited at all, that is.

[@admiralfluffy42]

What about apollo^4?

[@quaker5906]

Welp, gotta keep the trend up now, can't wait for Apollo^4

[@gen2mediainc.577]

The first stage is so ridiculously funny wtffff

[@Mac33299]

_"Now this is Pod racing"_

[@starcatcherksp1517]

I don't even know how your computer is still standing

[@WeirdGuyOnTheInternet]

Man, I have megalaphobia now. In all seriousness great job!

[@noobyeeter]

my guy just made nasa level calculations just for a funny ksp video

[@AtomcFish]

Most sane rss ro player

[@Ecological_Disaster]

love how the space center just gets incinerated with the launch

[@BradKesalowski]

Apollo 5: Landing FIVE TIMES on the moon one launch.

[@SirNobleIZH]

The thumbnail is wrong, it's 1 launch, 6 landings. 3 on the moon, and 3 on Earth

[@PekMeh12]

did you break into nasa and steal one of their super computers to run this. How are you getting good frames!!!???

[@thelastroman7791]

It’s funny. I found this to be ridiculous, insane, hilarious, awe inspiring, enlightening, inspirational, and even tear jerking, all at the same time.

[@sunnyd1390]

Hey, I got a question. How do you record your flights without the UI? Im assuming you can see them and we (the viewers) can't

[@TDChannelKSP]

It depends! The hotkey to do so is F2. - For shots in space such as engine ignitions, long burns, fly-bys, etc, the UI is off. - For launches, mechjeb controls the flight and I record without UI. - For landings, and other maneuvers where I have to see (docking, sometimes.) I record in 4k, so it's easy enough to crop the UI out and still maintain reasonable quality.

[@sunnyd1390]

@@TDChannelKSP Oh I see, I just assumed there was some way to record only the rocket, thanks love your content ❤️

[@RealFAFairman_Official]

Shuttle²: Mission To Orbit And Back, Twice!

[@40watt53]

Why does each lower stage have a flat disk on it?

[@TDChannelKSP]

That's the fuel tank - it looks flat since it's many kilometers wide by a couple hundred meters tall, but that's enough to hold an enormous volume of fuel.

[@ElijahBlockheadGaming]

let's go for an apollo4, i'm pretty sure the rocket's highest height will be past the karman line because of the height difference from apollo2 and this one

[@mcb187]

61 sea dragon upper stage engines “not that much thrust”… WHAT THE FU-!!!!

[@WarpPrime]

Essentially the madness of the rocket equation in a nutshell.

[@Gdcat1472]

Everyone: “when apollo4” Me who wants apollo5 to fit the Saturn V’s number:

[@MinerBat]

could 4 times be theoretically possible? i am going to guess that would be the limit because i think 5 times would require such a massive rocket that you are landing the moon on the rocket instead of the other way around... also what would that be called? apollo hypercubed?

[@TDChannelKSP]

Theoretically possible, but I've reached the limit of scale - game starts to get real weird beyond it. ^4 would require... radical optimizations.

[@netric9084]

@TD Channel ask NASA for one of their supercomputers