Mars Colonization E01 - First launch of the Interplanetary Transport System (SpaceX ITS in KSP)

Welcome to my collaborative SpaceX Mars colonization series with Marcus House. Join us here in Part 1 where we launch and discuss the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System designed rocket. We’ll head to orbit in the spaceship vessel while explaining some of the more interesting details about this part of the mission. Let’s follow our elite Mars crew on their maiden voyage to the red planet.
PART 2 - SpaceX Mars colonization series

SpaceX Interplanetary Transportation System by Thrimm Aerospace

SpaceX’s Interplanetary Transport System Video

Marcus House’s Channel

Music:
Kevin MacLeod - Frozen Star, Bathed in Light, Frost Waltz
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

[brokensoap]

Dang we're coming up on 5 years since this came out.
Nostalgia gets real.

[dylanlollar]

Congratulations Mark. This is an amazing mod so far, so thank you very much for it. I can't imagine how much work went into it. Still can't believe I was your 52nd sub (just went back and checked my comments :D)! Thanks for making awesome content. And Marcus! Thanks for teaching me how to actually play the game without utter failure. Love this collab!

[dewifrancis]

I find the Space X logo extremely satisfying.

[Sammy]

Amazing mod Mark... you never fail to amaze us.

[.mmJack]

Stop reading comments and watch the video.

[lewismassie]

I love both of these channels. It's so nice to see mutual collaborations between small channels

[kus]

It's kinda amazing how some of the things you said in the video actually happened and seemed so unorthodox back then.

[misterx]

our channel has gone a long way since sub 52, hasn't it. I subbed when he had 3, 475 subs, and now you have about 3 times that amount. keep up these vids, and you will be at 100, 000 subs

[dewifrancis]

I finally find a good colonizing Mars series!

[chriswatson]

Love the quite appropriate scepticism. My hopes and dreams are for success but we as a race cannot assume success off the back of SpaceX's terrestrial successes no master how freaking awesome they were to watch and how awe inspiring they were. Don't get me wrong. I want success but a human fatality failure will likely kill our hopes for commercial space travel like the shuttle failures did. Autonomy may eliminate this the awe will somewhat be diminished.

[matthewakian]

Great video, great animation! Thanks.

[brennanshippert]

Great videos here. Marcus, would love to see a Dr. Robert Zubrin "Mars Direct" style mission, to include the artificial gravity rotation during the transfer to Duna. That would be really cool.

[kazansky]

It would be awesome if you did a realism overhaul real scale solar system with the funding difficulty maxxed out and played using space X style reusable rockets. I've been trying to do it myself but I fail hard, basically one bad launch or landing pretty much bankrupts me early game.

[Sancho_uz]

Thank you for the "Spice X"))

[FDausCo]

My ITS Crew Ship always face down whenever I try to land on KSP Pad using Mechjeb2 which lead to crash. However, when I try to land manually and make it really vertical at 40km it landed successfully with the help of RCS. Still not found solution about it.

[armchairrocketscientist]

Something that doesn't make sense, why land in the launch mount? You could always land it somewhere else, but then have another 1st stage ready to prepare for launch as soon as the crew rocket takes off.

[juancarlovieri]

why does my rocket keep on exploding and destroying the launchpad

[SirChickenMacNugget]

This looks so awesome, well done :D Is there no landing legs on the booster stage in BFR though?

[MrNight-dgug]

When you only have 12 FPS....and is playing the game on a NOT-GAMING laptop :/
x3 many crashes, save files corrupted, can anyone help with the corrupted part?
I think I'll need to copy the save file onto another save file, right?

[HexaSquirrel]

Awesome design but two things bug me.
1. The legs look vastly too large in comparison to the ship/tankers fuselage diameter.
2. The tanker doesn't have windows for obvious reasons.