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Watch Space.com editor-in-chief Tariq Malik launch (and crash) rockets and planes on Kerbal Space Program 2.
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00:00Stage, stage, so first stage, second stage, third stage, and six stages, actually, overall.
00:09See, there's a separation thing here, four engines on this one, we've got three
00:15engines, we've got a big engine underneath here, we've got eight engines on the
00:21bottom plus the two strap-ons.
00:25Wow, look at that, okay, we're gonna go, let's go.
00:30This should be all the staging, whoa, whoa, whoa, right, so we have to lift off,
00:52oh, I'm starting to get out of control here, so far, not doing too hard.
01:02No, no, why are my guys smiling?
01:14Oh, here we go, here we go, this is, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
01:19no,
01:23there we go.
01:30I think, we're still, we're still not, we're not high enough.
01:35We're on, we're in, in the right, we're in the right direction now, which is a lot better
01:41than before.
01:43So now I actually have to steer, because the rockets beat her.
01:48We're not in the right spot, but we're almost there, we're almost there, see, we're getting
01:51there.
01:54Got it, got it.
02:00All right, there go my solid stage rockets.
02:09Oh, I think I have the hang of this now.
02:10You do have to steer.
02:18But I'm veering off course a little bit, it looks like.
02:34We're almost there, we're almost there.
02:38I still have a bit more fuel left over here, let's see if I can get back on track.
02:44All right.
02:56Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
03:09There we go, there we go, there we go.
03:11Better, better, better, better.
03:16Better.
03:29Got a bit of a shimmy it looks like here.
03:33We're still on track, we're still good.
03:35Because we can just cut off.
03:37There we go. Okay, we can start. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no. No, no, no. Oh, no.
03:48Hold on, hold on, hold on. We can... This is a much more responsive engine.
03:55We've got to turn around. We've got to turn around.
04:00Oh, no.
04:05No, we're going the wrong way.
04:13Well, how is this going to play out? Let's see. Can I save it? Do you think I can save
04:20it?
04:32We're clearly just pointing the wrong direction, so I've got a yaw.
04:40There we go. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
04:51Oh, I almost got it.
04:54Well, I think that we should go back to the launch pad.
05:01That... Oh, no.
05:07Well, we have boarded, and I think we're going to go ahead and deploy our parachute
05:12and bring our guys back to Earth.
05:15They're not on the moon.
05:17Oh, no.
05:19They're not on Mun.
05:21But at least they're going to get home okay, which is the important thing, right?
05:25I'm sure Tandorff's family would be helpful, or agree with my decision there.
05:32Let's see them land.
05:38All the way down.
05:47We've got this last hundred feet to go.
05:58Touchdown.
05:58Well, any landing that you can walk away from, I think, is okay.
06:04You guys okay in there?
06:05Yeah, they look fine.
06:07See?
06:07Pretty good.
06:08All right.
06:08Awesome.
06:09Okay, let's bring this down here.
06:13And then let's go.
06:27Okay, so we're moving.
06:30That's good.
06:31Okay.
06:32No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
06:42Can I save this, do you think?
06:50No, I cannot.
06:51Okay.
06:52No, we'll revert again.
06:54And then we'll see.
06:55We'll see.
06:57We'll see if there's a tutorial about flying airplanes.
06:59How about that?
07:06So we're going to get going.
07:08And then let's just keep going faster.
07:10Maybe we're not going faster.
07:15Okay.
07:17All right.
07:23This is miles per second.
07:26Years per second.
07:29Let's see.
07:31Let's keep going.
07:35And then...
07:36Oh, I hit the wrong button.
07:41One second.
08:08Oh, I hit the wrong button.
08:45Okay, so I got to orbit with my rocket.
08:49I did have the staging wrong, but I was able to fix it in time, which is good.
08:55And now we're just on our way back to Earth, to Kerbin, with our capsule with Tim C. Kerbin.
09:04Tim, we did it.
09:06Are you happy?
09:07We don't want Tim to leave the capsule.
09:12But we're coming back down to Earth, to Kerbin, and I'm going to speed it up a little bit until
09:20we get closer.
09:20Now I'm going to get down to one.
09:22We're going to deploy our parachute.
09:29And it fizzled.
09:33All right.
09:35I think that what happens is I have too much delta V, and I think it blacks out.
09:41I'm learning a lot, though.
09:42We'll figure it out one day.
09:46Matt is going on.
09:51It's got a lot of hot.
09:54I'm going to be looking at them.
10:04I'm going to be looking at them.
10:05I don't want to go.
10:05But, the other one's going to be, I think.
10:06He's going to be looking at them.
10:07He's going to be looking at them.
10:09And I'm just going to be looking.
10:10You're going to be getting closer.
10:12One time away.
10:13It's going to be looking at them.
10:14So nice engines
10:43So nice
11:33Well we're going to land in the water
11:56Oh my parachute
11:57Cheers
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