Ferry Tourists to Their Destination | KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM Contract Tutorials

Space Tourists want to pay us. Who are we to say no? Along the way we look at using Time to Apoapsis to refine our ascent. (KSP 1.12.3)

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0:00 - Introduction
0:44 - Looking at the Contract
2:26 - Part Testing Contract
4:14 - Needed Tech
4:41 - Updating Buildings
5:57 - Modifying for Tourists
8:48 - Modifying Orbiter
10:44 - Modifying Booster Core
11:45 - Modifying Radial Boosters
13:12 - Adding Launch Clamps
14:50 - Game Plan
17:20 - Starting Gravity Turn
19:28 - Using Time to Apoapsis
21:32 - Refining our Descent
25:29 - Summary

[drummernate]

I'm cutting my grandma's grass while listening to this. Good content is good. Please don't stop 🤙

[Jodo]

1:11 LOL! I'm pretty sure it's pronounced more like "trainee." This has been a great refresher series as I revisit the game before 2 comes out next year. Entertaining and very informative.

[TaeSunWoo]

I think this what my company Targaryen Flights will partially focus on

[TomRubicon]

Note to myself: what a great tutorial on basic rocket steering. A lot of very good tips to apply here. Using MechJeb autopilot is nice, but also takes the fun out of it.

[BataLeonOnline]

Great channel, I've had KSP for so long and only ever do the early game, you are helping me get further than before. Keep up the good content :)

[techno_letsgo]

I watched the ksp for beginners playlist and now im watching this again because theyre so helpful! Thank you mike!!

[rbroach]

Great Video! I love when you show how to use the different tools (like time to Ap). Others may mention them, or not, but few explain why the tools are there as well as you do.

[john]

ive played a few hours of ksp (around 200) sence its first launch years ago and im still learning things.
im loving this series. i didnt even think of limiting the thrust on the boosters.

one thing im looking forward to is docking, i can get there but not the last 50m or so, im always all over the place

[vrenibowe]

These guides have been so helpful to me. Had to hunt for this one again though, as I keep messing up my ascent and ending up with an apospsis that's like 500 thousand km by the time I reach atmosphere, and I'm sure this video will be the key to getting it right. Fingers crossed!

[chaotictranquility]

Thanks to watching your videos for the last week, I have orbiting kerban to a T! I have not figured out how to orbit anything else yet 😂 so here I am studying your videos! Thank you so much!😊

[Guido]

Thanks so much for these videos! They really help fill some gaps in my knowledge about the game.

[marshelene]

i have hundreds of playtime but there is always another thing to learn from you, besides it is fun to watch your videos. thanks.

[Arceus]

I had the crazy idea to ferry 15 tourists to the mun and back.

I just kept getting these contracts, so I accepted all the ones I had. Made a stupidly massive rocket, somehow managed to make it to the mun and back without anyone dying.

I did it as a joke, but hell, it was fun

[Checkmate]

These ferry contracts are indeed lucrative. I've been using them in my let's play and got over a million Kerbucks pretty quick. In another video of yours, you had a tip to start your de-orbit burn when you get over the desert site. I've been doing that and burning until my peri is about 30 and I hit water consistently every time. Thanks for the tip, and another great video!

[wolfyzera]

It's great to see a reboot of your previous tutorial serie as there's a lot of new features since those videos came out! It would be cool if you could do some tutorials on some of the "stock friendly" mods, like that survey scanners one and such.

[zevakikel]

Very entertaining! Thanks for sharing!

[markfisher]

Your videos are amazing. I'm busy hoovering them all up, and you've been going for so many years! As my main degree was maths, I was super excited at that series too. Gives so much more information. So many tips I struggle to find else where. I think I'll start attending your streams too!

[jonservo]

Waiting on the new rendezvous in orbit videos. I never thought I would actually pull one of those missions off, but your video on it finally gave me the help needed to succeed

[charlesmurray]

Just reinstalled ksp on my console, time to get my contracts going, thanks for the inspiration

[benjaminhartmann]

wow I got ksp yesterday and my flights are a mess so weird to see a controlled landing xD nice video!