Alexander the ok
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Should we have kept flying Saturn? And more fun facts about the Shuttle Engines
🕑 Added 2024-06-28 20:33:20 +0000 UTCHonestly, there is a pretty strong argument that the Shuttle should never have even been considered and NASA should have kept just refining and flying Saturn. Ignoring the fact it was a political impossibility in 1970, I discuss my thoughts on this.
Also, I've put together some of the more interesting facts I learned about the Shuttle engines that I never had time to include in the main video.
In this video I reference the following:
Michael D Griffen. Human space exploration: the next 50 years (written in 2007):
https://aviationweek.typepad.com/space/2007/03/human_space_exp.html
skyshowtv. Amazing slo-mo launch footage shot on film:
https://www.youtube.com/@skyshowtv
STS-51C launch. Watch with the sound on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq_shHu4lAs
NASA engineering film highlights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwqZ4qAUkE
Comments
Felix Argyle
Or is it that you have found a secret soviet enclave that, to this day, just exists to send men into space ?
Alexander the ok
What a dumb mistake! It’ll be because I’ve just finished recording the audio for the buran video where I say ‘Soviets’ dozens of times.
Felix Argyle
Minor nitpick but at about 4:34 you make a mistake and say that the soviets are still around and doing space stuff :p
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