Watch Space.com editor-in-chief Tariq Malik launch (and crash) rockets and planes on Kerbal Space Program 2.
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00:00 Stage, stage, so first stage, second stage, third stage, and six stages actually overall.
00:09 See there's a separation thing here, four engines on this one, we've got three engines,
00:15 we've got a big engine underneath here, we've got eight engines on the bottom plus the two
00:21 strap-ons.
00:22 Wow, look at that.
00:25 Okay, we're gonna go.
00:28 Let's go.
00:29 This should be all of the stages.
00:36 Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:43 I'm starting to get out of control here.
00:57 So far not doing too bad.
01:02 No, no.
01:04 Why are my guys smiling?
01:08 Oh, here we go, here we go.
01:17 This is good.
01:21 There we go.
01:28 I think we're still not high enough.
01:35 We're in the right direction now, which is a lot better than before.
01:42 So now I actually have to steer because the rocket's bigger.
01:47 We're not in the right spot, we're almost there, we're almost there, see we're getting
01:54 there.
01:55 Got it, got it.
01:56 Right there go my solid stage rockets.
02:05 Oh, I think I have the hang of this now.
02:10 You do have to steer.
02:17 But I'm veering off course a little bit, it looks like.
02:34 We're almost there, we're almost there.
02:38 I still have more fuel left over here.
02:42 Let's see if I can get back on track.
02:56 Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
03:20 I've got a bit of a shimmy it looks like here, but we're still on track, we're still, we're
03:34 still good, we're still good.
03:35 Because we can just cut off.
03:36 There we go, okay, we can start.
03:37 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no, no, no.
03:38 Oh, no.
03:39 Hold on, hold on, hold on, we can, we can do it.
03:40 This is a much more responsive engine.
04:05 I'm going the wrong way.
04:12 Well, how's this going to play out, let's see.
04:18 Can I, can I save it?
04:20 Do you think I can save it?
04:32 We're clearly just pointing in the wrong direction, so I've got to yaw.
04:41 There we go, okay, okay, okay.
04:51 Oh, I almost got it.
04:54 I think that we should go back to the launch pad.
05:01 Oh, no.
05:04 Well, we aborted, and I think we're going to go ahead and deploy our parachute and bring
05:12 our guys back to Earth.
05:14 They're not on the moon.
05:16 Oh, no.
05:18 They're not on Mun, but at least they're going to get home okay, which is the important thing
05:23 right?
05:24 I'm sure Tandorf's family would be helpful, or agree with my decision there.
05:31 Let's see them land.
05:36 All the way down.
05:45 We've got this last hundred feet to go.
05:54 Touchdown.
05:56 Well, any landing that you can walk away from, I think, is okay.
06:03 You guys okay in there?
06:05 Yeah, they look fine.
06:06 See?
06:07 Pretty good.
06:08 All right, awesome.
06:09 Okay, let's bring this down here.
06:11 And then let's go.
06:16 Okay, so we're moving.
06:24 That's good.
06:28 Okay.
06:30 No, no, no, no, no, no.
06:37 Can I save this, do you think?
06:47 No, I cannot.
06:50 Okay, we'll revert again.
06:53 And then we'll see.
06:55 We'll see if there's a tutorial about flying airplanes.
06:59 How about that?
07:01 So we're going to get going.
07:08 And then let's just keep going faster.
07:09 Maybe we're not going fast enough.
07:11 [ Music ]
07:37 They hit the wrong button.
07:42 One second.
07:44 [ Music ]
07:59 One hundred.
08:01 [ Music ]
08:30 [ Background Conversations ]
08:45 So I got to orbit with my rocket.
08:49 I did have the staging wrong, but I was able to fix it in time, which is good.
08:54 And now we're just on our way back to Earth, to Kerbin, with our capsule, with Tim C. Kerman.
09:04 Tim, we did it.
09:05 Are you happy?
09:06 We don't want Tim to leave the capsule.
09:12 We're coming back down to Earth, to Kerbin.
09:15 And I'm going to speed it up a little bit until we get close.
09:20 But now I'm going to get down to one.
09:21 We're going to deploy our parachute.
09:28 And it fizzled.
09:32 All right.
09:35 I think that what happens is I have too much delta-V, and I think it blacks out.
09:40 I'm learning a lot, though.
09:42 We'll figure it out one day.
09:44 [ Background Conversations ]
09:58 [ Music ]
10:14 [ Background Conversations ]
10:28 [ Music ]
10:52 [ Background Conversations ]
11:04 [ Music ]
11:14 [ Background Conversations ]
11:33 Well, we're going to land in the water.
11:35 [ Music ]
11:56 Oh, my parachutes.
11:58 [ Music ]
12:07 (laughs)