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 engines,
00:16we've got a big engine underneath here, we've got eight engines on the bottom plus the two
00:21strap-ons.
00:22Wow, look at that, okay, we're gonna go, let's go.
00:30This should be all the staging, whoa, whoa, whoa, all right, so we have to lift off, I'm
00:55starting to get out of control here, so far, not doing too bad, no, no, why are my guys
01:06smiling?
01:07Oh, here we go, here we go, this is, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, there we go, all right,
01:24here we go, I think, we're still not, we're not high enough, but we're on the, we're in
01:36the right, we're in the right direction now, which is a lot better than before, so now
01:43I actually have to steer because the rocket's bigger, we're not in the right spot, but we're
01:49almost there, we're almost there, see, we're getting there, got it, got it, all right,
02:00there go my solid stage rockets, oh, I think I have the hang of this now, you do have to
02:11steer, but I'm veering off course a little bit, it looks like, but we're almost there,
02:36we're almost there, I still have more fuel left over here, see if I can get back on track,
02:56no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
03:24I've got a bit of a shimmy, it looks like here, but we're still on track, we're still,
03:34we're still good, we're still good, because we can just cut off, there we go, okay, and we can
03:39start, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no, no, no, no, oh, no, hold on, hold on, hold on,
03:50this is a much more responsive engine, I've got to turn around, I've got to turn around,
04:00oh, no, no, we're going the wrong way,
04:05well, how's this going to play out, let's see, can I save it, do you think I can save it,
04:20okay, we're clearly just pointing in the wrong direction, so I've got to yaw up,
04:40there we go, okay, okay, okay,
04:51oh, I almost got it, well, I think that we should go back to the launch pad,
05:00that, oh, no,
05:08well, we aborted, and I think we're going to go ahead and deploy our parachute,
05:12and bring our guys back to earth, they're not on the moon, oh, no,
05:17oh, they're not on the moon, but at least they're going to get home okay,
05:23which is the important thing, right, I'm sure Tandorf's family would be
05:29helpful, or agree with my decision there, let's see them land,
05:38all the way down,
05:39oh, we got this last 100 feet to go,
05:57touchdown, well, any landing that you can walk away from, I think, is okay,
06:04you guys okay in there, yeah, they look fine, see, pretty good, all right, awesome,
06:09okay, let's bring this down here, and then let's go,
06:19okay, so we're, we're moving, that's good, okay, no, no, no, no, no, no,
06:42can I, can I save this, you think,
06:49no, I cannot, okay, well, we'll revert again, and then we'll see, we'll, we'll see,
06:57is there, let's see if there's a tutorial about flying airplanes, how about that,
07:08and then let's just keep going faster, maybe we're not going fast enough,
07:19okay,
07:36oh, I hit the wrong button,
07:49okay,
08:19So I got to orbit with my rocket.
08:48I 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. Kerman.
09:05Tim, we did it!
09:06Are you happy?
09:07We don't want Tim to leave the capsule.
09:08But we're coming back down to Earth, to Kerbin, and I'm going to speed it up a little bit
09:19until we get close, but now I'm going to get down to one, I'm 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 e-blacks out.
09:41I'm learning a lot, though.
09:42We'll figure it out one day.
10:02These are nice engines.
10:32All right.
10:48All right.
11:04Well, we're going to land in the water.
11:33Well, we're going to land in the water.
11:56Oh, my parachutes.