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Ok, so I can't find the Youtube forum. Is it still around, or did that get lost in the backup?

Please move this if I'm missing the right place to post it.

Now, on to the main event - my new Youtube series!

Real World Rockets!

I'll be using various modded parts and ships to fly the American space race missions from the 1960s and 1970s. I plan on flying each mission, from Mercury through Gemini and ending with Apollo, all the way from Alan Shepard's space shot on Freedom 7 to the successful return of Apollo 17 from the Mun.

I'm starting off with FASA's excellent Mercury Redstone mod parts, and I've put together the first few videos in the series - the flights of Freedom 7 and Liberty Bell 7.

Freedom 7 (Alan Shepard)

Liberty Bell 7 (Gus Grissom)

Friendship 7 (John Glenn)

Aurora 7 (Scott Carpenter)

Sigma 7 (Wally Schirra)

Faith 7 (Gordon Cooper)

I'm still working on the volume and settings, so let me know what you think to improve them. The computer makes a bunch of noise for the first two minutes of the Liberty Bell 7 video, but thirty seconds into launch I fix the volume, and it seems to straighten itself out.

I'll post more videos in this post as I get them finished. I'll try to do a few every week, but we'll see how time constraints work out on that. Please, let me know what you think of the video - it's my first one, and I'm anxious to learn how to improve them. Let me know what you think, and I hope you enjoy!

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Looks like this could be good, I'm watching!

Edit: You should consider building a faster computer for playing KSP, there was a thread with tips before the great forum debacle.

Don't buy a prebuilt, either, they are a ripoff if ever there was one.

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when I can put together a dual core, Linux based desktop with 500Gb HDD space for about $350, I'd say yeah.... ripoff. Heck my i3 2100 cost me half of what prebuilt cost :D runs KSP awesome like too, other games as well :

$1200 O_O ..... good gravy.... Ok, I'm thinking i5, possibly i7, 8Gb DDR3 1600, 1TB HDD with an 80GB SSD for your OS, and probably KSP (loading times), and something along the lines of a GTX 560, or better..... yeeeeaaahhhh.....

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when I can put together a dual core, Linux based desktop with 500Gb HDD space for about $350, I'd say yeah.... ripoff. Heck my i3 2100 cost me half of what prebuilt cost :D runs KSP awesome like too, other games as well :

$1200 O_O ..... good gravy.... Ok, I'm thinking i5, possibly i7, 8Gb DDR3 1600, 1TB HDD with an 80GB SSD for your OS, and probably KSP (loading times), and something along the lines of a GTX 560, or better..... yeeeeaaahhhh.....

Doesn't hurt to dream, right?

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I've got an i7, 16gb ddr3, 2tb hdd+ 1.5tb +500gb... and planning to snag a 10k hdd one of these days... im still a bit leary of SSDs because of their fragility (speeds ROCK but hot damn have I seen them get lit up time and time again by small power surges), and a GTX 560 Ti card. love my machine, but its getting to that point in any windows install where its just bogging down. I need to buy a retail copy of windows since i can't reactivate my student edition =(

anyways... point being, I get the lags too. better HDD would probably do wonders to help in that though. It's certainly my bottle-neck at this point

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In your posts you're not linking to the video, you're linking to an analytics page. I was able to find the video. I've enjoyed these so far, keep 'em up!

I could not for the life of me figure that out. I'll go take a look and see if I can fix it.

Thanks, Kalawag. Your videos are great - better than mine, I'd say! I wish more accurate models of real rockets were put in the game - stock replicas are all well and good, and you do a better job than most, but there's something special about flying a Mercury Redstone.

Also, anyone have a lead on a good Saturn V model? I've spliced together a few, but the darn thing is so wobbly it's almost impossible to fly.

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I could not for the life of me figure that out. I'll go take a look and see if I can fix it.

Thanks, Kalawag. Your videos are great - better than mine, I'd say! I wish more accurate models of real rockets were put in the game - stock replicas are all well and good, and you do a better job than most, but there's something special about flying a Mercury Redstone.

Also, anyone have a lead on a good Saturn V model? I've spliced together a few, but the darn thing is so wobbly it's almost impossible to fly.

There's a replica that just got updated http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/saturn-v-replica/

Not sure how complete it is, haven't tried it myself yet. I've been considering scaling up some KW rocket pack parts and then modeling whatever was missing to approximate a Saturn V style launch vehicle, but then I figured I might as well just model the entire thing, which I'm planning on doing at some point. That and an SLS analog as well. The hard thing though is figuring out the scale of these parts to what's already in KSP.

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