Kerbal Space Program
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Nov 2, 2026
Scott ManleyHOST
Yes, the dinosaur is definitely the best dinosaur.
Scott ManleyHOST
I actually did that in Kerbal once.
Scott ManleyHOST
I created a rocket-powered dinosaur.
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Dinosaur.
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Scott ManleyHOST
I'm not going to deny that.
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But, you know, if you want to play the latest first-person shooter, honestly, do you really want to play the latest first-person multiplayer shooter when there's great games out there that aren't that? Yeah.
Scott ManleyHOST
It plays Kerbal Space Program just fine.
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It plays some of the flight simulator stuff.
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This was the asteroid redirect mission.
Scott ManleyHOST
And if you're one of the many people who started following me because I played Kerbal Space Program, you might know that this was actually introduced to the game back in 2014 when the developers of the game collaborated with NASA.
Scott ManleyHOST
This was a pretty big expansion at the time.
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I mean, literally, it added the largest rocket parts so that players could build their own versions of SLS.
Scott ManleyHOST
I mean, not just serious orbit tweaks and space stations and things like that.
Scott ManleyHOST
No, We actually had a round in Runway Project where we asked players to build aircraft around asteroids and then fight them in a giant Thunderdome arena.
Scott ManleyHOST
I mean, that is Kerbal Space Programme for you.
Scott ManleyHOST
Now, we all know what happened to Kerbal Space Programme.
Scott ManleyHOST
So yeah, I was talking about less.
Scott ManleyHOST
Remember, this is part of my series, the Real World Kerbal Space Program, where... astronauts basically came up with an escape system for astronauts that could fly off the moon.
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You've heard about guys putting helium balloons on lawn chairs and kind of floating around.
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Well, imagine putting a rocket on a lawn chair and trying to pilot your way off the moon.
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And of course, Bob is struck.
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He is horrified that Jeb has managed it.
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He realizes he's going to have to pay out a whole huge amount of Kerbal dollars.
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And no doubt... clean Jeb Adai's uniform and medals because, you know, Jeb probably has hundreds of medals for being the most awesome astronaut in the entire universe.
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Scott ManleyHOST
Hello, it's Scott, and if you're a regular player of Kerbal Space Program, I don't doubt that you have occasionally gotten yourself into this situation.
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As you see, my rocket has underestimated how much fuel was required for its landing on Minmus and subsequent maneuvering, and The return trajectory is just shy of the atmosphere, which will slow it down.
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The ship has no reaction control system, no more fuel tanks.
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At this point, mission control appears to have exhausted all eventualities and are preparing a rescue mission.
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The pilot tries to make light of his impending long wait by jokingly saying, Would it help if I got out and pushed? At which point, Mission Control pauses for a moment and replies, Actually, it would help if you got out and pushed.
Scott ManleyHOST
You see, it turns out that every Kerbal Space Program command pod has enough fuel on board to essentially refill the pilot's EVA packs indefinitely.
Scott ManleyHOST
So the pilot can get out, maneuver around to the back of the spaceship and fly into it very slowly to give it a push.
Scott ManleyHOST
But yeah, look, I've more or less made it into orbit with just that.
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So pretty much that's a record for my previous KSP attempts.
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But this thing, I'm going to go and take it out even further.
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Now, the one mission that we've run previously that needs the most delta V is the direct sundive.
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Today we are going back into history and I know what you're thinking.
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You're looking at Kerbal Space Program here and you're thinking, oh, he's going to play some more Kerbal Space Program, just like the good old days of Scott Manley 10 years ago.
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But no, I am going even further back because some of you may have also noticed in the top right there is a screen showing Copyright 1982, Sinclair Research Limited.
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And if you were growing up in Britain in the 80s, you may well have seen this many, many times.
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But there was some recent discussion recently about how powerful modern hardware is and how it could land on the moon.
Scott ManleyHOST
I wondered whether I could make a 1982 ZX Spectrum control a spacecraft to land on the moon.
Scott ManleyHOST
Now obviously I don't have a real spacecraft to land on the moon so I'm going to use a simulated lander in Kerbal Space Program and it's going to be operated by an emulated computer using Spectacular which is a paid ZX Spectrum emulator.
Scott ManleyHOST
It has serial port support, which is really important, because you wonder, how does a 1982 piece of hardware control a spacecraft? While the AGC, the Apollo Guidance Computer in the 1960s, may have been kind of slow compared to much hardware that followed it, it had a lot of interfaces to talk to all the hardware on here.
Scott ManleyHOST
Hello, it's Scott Manley, and what seems like an eternity, we finally have Kerbal Space Program 0.16.
Scott ManleyHOST
It also seemed to take an eternity to actually download it, but eventually we have it.
Scott ManleyHOST
So the first thing to notice is the new capsule, which is larger and contains three people, whereas there's a smaller capsule which only contains one.
Scott ManleyHOST
Hello, it's Scott Manley here.
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Now, I'm sitting here and I'm waiting for a version .16 of Kerbal Space Program.
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But in the meantime, I thought I'd make a little video about another alternative or another thing you might want to play in the meantime if you're into the whole rocket science thing.
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Now...
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Now, they're not just swapping out the stage.
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Rockets aren't like Kerbal Space Program.
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They're going to make some changes.
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First of all, there is a stage adapter between the booster core and the ICPS.
Scott ManleyHOST
And with that vision in mind, I had the idea that I could go out and emulate something like this.
Scott ManleyHOST
I have a Wii and the balance board, so I thought maybe I could hook that up to Kerbal Space Program.
Scott ManleyHOST
So I did some research and found Glove Pi, which will hook up via Bluetooth.
Scott ManleyHOST
Unfortunately, none of my PCs have Bluetooth.
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