Full Lunar Dress Rehearsal! // For All Kerbalkind

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A collaborative Kerbal Space Program series between myself, TheBeardyPenguin, and Carnasa:
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Music:
Space Ambience #10 by Andrew Sitkov
Bring Me the Sky by Scott Buckley
Cosmic Drifting by Lee Rosevere
Duplicates by Ketas
Adrift Among Infinite Stars by Scott Buckley
Some improv guitar I did a long time ago
Buzz Aldrin: Poster Boy for Second Place by The Wonder Years

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:51 Trinity 1
15:13 Trinity 2
28:59 Outro

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50 thoughts on “Full Lunar Dress Rehearsal! // For All Kerbalkind”

  1. It may just be me, but I'm hoping that post moon race, we stick with Apollo instead of jumping to the space shuttle. But that may just be me.

    I'm curious how far the Apollo, or in this case, Trinity could be pushed.

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  14. imagine the plot twist: carnasa lawnch 4 rocket, perform few orbital assemblies and land one the moon first. it would be awsome. (i realy want to see an european lunar crewed mission, maybe with ariane 5 or 4 and lots of docking)

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  17. Simply wow… the level of detail is gorgeous and highly appreciated. For instance, the early shutdown of the first stage center engine and RCS prograde firing required to light the SPS engine. Thanks a lot!

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  19. This really is one of the highest-quality series I've ever seen on YouTube. At first, I wanted beardy to win, then n9 after he pulled ahead now I just love the suspense you two make with these videos, I want it to be as close as possible. Your channel is criminally underrated.

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  22. Carry on my wayward son
    There'll be peace when you are done
    Lay your weary head to rest
    Don't you cry no more…

    I believe that even if Penguin lands second place … the fact TTL both Nations managed to achieve moon landings will keep the Space Race going and the kold war lukewarm…

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  32. It was an expert launch of the N1. Am still pulling for TheBeardyPenguin to land first. If I had the time I would have played the Chinese. But it's just too far down the road.

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  39. This is the first of your videos I have watched. Your cinematography instincts are excellent.
    I do have a technical film making critique: during a sequence of any particular maneuver, whether its a space craft, an airplane, or even an automobile, it is usually good practice to use the 180 rule. This means the camera can move anywhere within a 180 degree, spherical zone of the subject, but it should never cross over into the opposing sphere. With a moving object, this 180 line is usually parallel to the vehicle's direction of movement or a line drawn front to back of the vehicle. People instinctively register the direction the space craft is moving around the planet in the first establishing shot. If you cross over the 180 line in any subsequent shot without a transition pan, it suddenly appears that the craft is now orbiting in the opposite direction. In film school you learn that the only time you can break this rule without confusing the audience is if you include a panning shot from one side of the line to the other. This way the viewer knows the camera has transitioned to the other side of the 180 line. It's a small detail, but when the 180 rule is broken it often leads to viewer confusion even if it's only at a subconscious level. I personally would make sure in an Earth orbit that the camera is always located south of the 180 line simply because people are used to thinking and viewing the Earth as north-up. I would probably use the same camera direction for any other planet or moon.

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  40. A rat done bit my sister Nell
    But whitey's on the moon
    Her face and arms began to swell
    But whitey's on the moon
    I can't pay my doctor bills
    But whitey's on the moon?
    Ten years I'll be paying still
    With whitey on the moon

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  41. To anyone else curious of the current Moonshot timeline: (dw no spoilers, but it is still the timeline so be warned)

    06/64 – Soviet successful uncrewed test flight
    08/64 – American successful uncrewed test flight

    10/64 – Soviet Failed crewed LEO flight
    11/64 – Soviet Successful crewed LEO flight
    12/64 – Soviet Failed crewed lunar orbit
    03/65 – Soviet Failed crewed lunar orbit (RIP 🙁 )
    04/65 – American Successful Crewed LEO flight
    05/65 – American Successful Crewed Lunar flight and (assumed) Soviet Crewed Lunar flight

    Now onto some thoughts:
    This race is insanely close, and the fact that they (probably) both are ready to go for lunar landing in the same MONTH is astonishing, and speaks to how amazing both of them are in this. Now onto speculation: the Soviets have had WAAY more launches, atleast double, and so the likeliness that everything goes well for beardy is extremely high, atleast in terms of TestFlight. From what I remember from these videos, Beardy has also put an emphasis on single-production rockets, which despite being less cost-efficient means the Soviets will be way more capable of spitting out another N1 very, very soon. On the flip side, we know that their Baikonur launch site is pretty poorly aligned with the moon, so it will likely be atleast another month before they are ready to launch (probably about the time they need to roll out anyways so nbd). We also know that N9 has doubled down on the moon landing, so he'll probably be using all 3 build lines for Saturn V production meaning he may very well have his newest Katurn already ready to go. KSC also has a much more convenient latitude, so my money is on N9 launching extremely soon, probably no later than mid-July. N9s biggest problem is his limited number of flights (and specifically engine failures) so while I dont know the individual engine reliabilities, I would bet that they are slightly lower than the N1's right now (then again more engine=more potential problems so we will see). This is really concerning for his lander system, but then again beardy is in the same boat. Either way, this is a nail biter, and I cant wait to see what happens! Thank you all for the amazing work you have put into this cinematic and dramatic masterpiece, I'm already pumped about season 2!

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  44. SNOOPY never had enough fuel to land and return. This was done on purpose to prevent the astronauts from taking it upon themselves to alter the mission and land on the moon out of temptation. Astronauts knew this. Now you do, too. 🙋🇨🇦

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  46. NASA Facts: Secret NASA documents reveal the real shape of the Earth!

    1 – LOCKHEED SR-71 BLACKBIRD: Technical Memorandum 104330: Predicted Performance of a Thrust Enhanced SR-71 Aircraft with an External Payload:

    Page 08: DIGITAL PERFORMANCE SIMULATION DESCRIPTION: The DPS equations of motion use four assumptions that simplify the program while maintaining its fidelity for most maneuvers and applications: point-mass modeling, nonturbulent atmosphere, zero side forces, and a “nonrotating Earth”.

    2 – NASA Reference Publication 1207: Derivation and Definition of a Linear Aircraft Model: 08/1988:

    2.1 Page 02: SUMMARY: This report documents the derivation and definition of a linear aircraft model for a rigid aircraft of constant mass flying over a “fiat and nonrotating Earth”.

    2.2 Page 30: 3 CONCLUDING REMARKS: This report derives and defines a set oflinearized system matrices for a rigid aircraft of constant mass, flying in a stationary atmosphere over a “flat and nonrotating Earth”.

    2.3 Page 102: 16. Abstract: This report documents the derivation and definition of a linear aircraft model for a rigid aircraft of constant mass flying over a “flat and nonrotating Earth”.

    3 – NASA General Equations of Motion for a Damaged Asymmetric Aircraft:

    Page 02: Rigid Body Equations of Motion Referenced to an Arbitrary Fixed Point on the Body There are several approaches that can be used to develop the general equations of motion. The one selected here starts with Newton’s laws applied to a collection of particles defining the rigid body (any number of dynamics or physics books can serve as references, e.g. reference 2). In this paper, the rigid body equations of motion over a “flat non-rotating Earth” are developed that are not necessarily referenced to the body’s center of mass.

    4 – NASA: A METHOD FOR REDUCING THE SENSITIVITY OF OPTIMAL NONLINEAR SYSTEMS TO PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 1971:

    Page 12: A NUMERICAL EXAMPLE: Problem Statement: The example problem is a fixed-time problem in which it is required to determine the thrust-attitude program of a single-stage rocket vehicle starting from rest and going to specified terminal conditions of altitude and vertical velocity which will maximize the final horizontal velocity. The idealizing assumptions made are the following:

    (1) A point-mass vehicle

    (2) A “flat, nonrotating Earth”

    5 – NASA Technical Paper Nº 2835 1988: User’s Manual for Interactive LINEAR, a FORTRAN Program To Derive Linear Aircraft Models.

    5.1 Page 01: SUMMARY: The nonlinear equations of motion used are six-degree-of-freedom equations with stationary atmosphere and “flat and nonrotating Earth” assumptions.

    5.2 Page 126: 6. Abstract: The nonlinear equations of motion used are six-degree-of-freedom equations sith stationary atmosphere and “flat and nonrotating Earth” assumptions.

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