The Story of How NASA Went From Space Shuttles To SpaceX & Commercial Rockets

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The launch of SpaceX's DM-2 mission taking NASA astronauts to the Space Station was the culmination of years of development, and more importantly years of political and management decisions which shifted NASA's reliance on internally designed and built launch systems to much cheaper rides on privately built rockets. It took the support of multiple Presidents and NASA administrators in the face of political opponents who cared more about the money being spent in their districts than the results that the spending produced.

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  • @idjles
    @idjles4 жыл бұрын

    Bob and Doug are such Kerbal-sounding names.

  • @paulfitz776

    @paulfitz776

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or fictional, beer drinking, Canadian brothers (McKenzie).

  • @robertsteinbeiss8478

    @robertsteinbeiss8478

    4 жыл бұрын

    dont leave them up there!

  • @JesusHChrist2000

    @JesusHChrist2000

    4 жыл бұрын

    Like toys on Elons bottle rocket.

  • @Bluemorpho_90

    @Bluemorpho_90

    4 жыл бұрын

    We need a bob and doug kerman in KSP

  • @Juno101

    @Juno101

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Bluemorpho_90 You got Bob Kerman as one of the classic four.

  • @bhaskersriharshasuri7359
    @bhaskersriharshasuri73594 жыл бұрын

    Today's "fly safe" sounded more like a threat rather than an advice.

  • @0cs025

    @0cs025

    4 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @davidb6576

    @davidb6576

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ominous...

  • @tolgonqq

    @tolgonqq

    4 жыл бұрын

    Reading this comment and watching it back made me spit out my drink almost

  • @mtlfpv

    @mtlfpv

    4 жыл бұрын

    its a threat to Boeing

  • @arantes6

    @arantes6

    4 жыл бұрын

    Got a kind of Liam Neeson vibe xD

  • @marmalade101
    @marmalade1014 жыл бұрын

    imagine standing on your balcony when scott manley suddenly appears behind you and says "fly safe" before pushing you over the railing

  • @737smartin

    @737smartin

    4 жыл бұрын

    I kind of liked "menacing" Scott Manley "Fly Safe."

  • @scottmanley

    @scottmanley

    4 жыл бұрын

    You have no idea how many people I’ve pushed from balconies.... in Crusader KIngs II

  • @user2C47

    @user2C47

    4 жыл бұрын

    **Immediately devises some completely Kerbal design to hit the ground at less than 12m/s.*

  • @dropdead234

    @dropdead234

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@user2C47 Could you actually design a human-shaped object to fly off a balcony, and use thrusters and a parachute to ....Fly Safely?

  • @cdl0

    @cdl0

    4 жыл бұрын

    The flight would be completely safe; it is the landing which might trouble the aviator. :-)

  • @ElectricGamePlayer58
    @ElectricGamePlayer584 жыл бұрын

    I guess they called it C3PO since having a space program that has CCCP in its name wouldn't be a good idea.

  • @OCinneide

    @OCinneide

    4 жыл бұрын

    especially when you have southern senators trying to shut it down

  • @SimonBuchanNz

    @SimonBuchanNz

    4 жыл бұрын

    "They aren't even the same letters! The Russian one is pronounced like 'SSSR'!" "So... you speak Russian?"

  • @Meg_A_Byte

    @Meg_A_Byte

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SimonBuchanNz CCCP is Cyrillic alphabet equivalent of SSSR.

  • @SimonBuchanNz

    @SimonBuchanNz

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Meg_A_Byte ... thanks for explaining my joke?

  • @frankowalker4662

    @frankowalker4662

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ha, Yeah. Hadn't thought of that. LOL.

  • @Ostsol
    @Ostsol4 жыл бұрын

    The most amazing thing I remember from the Falcon Heavy launch was the sight of both boosters landing on adjacent pads.

  • @Kineth1

    @Kineth1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I'm glad someone saw that. I watched it live, and they both landed on the same pad according to the live video. ... They oopsed the video and had the same video stream for the left/right booster for the live broadcast (if you can find it, you'll see them both going for the pad on the left from their own perspective). They corrected the archived footage.

  • @somedude-lc5dy

    @somedude-lc5dy

    4 жыл бұрын

    the pair of triple sonic booms was pretty awesome.

  • @mhballa5866

    @mhballa5866

    4 жыл бұрын

    LOL , that what everyone remember .

  • @nicholasmaude6906

    @nicholasmaude6906

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@somedude-lc5dy It sounded like an artillery barrage.

  • @kuusj98

    @kuusj98

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'll never forget that sight, it was absolutely amazing

  • @ripsumrall8018
    @ripsumrall80184 жыл бұрын

    "Hey Doug you want to fly this shuttle cobbled together out of spare parts? " "When?" he asks.

  • @baxtercat5462

    @baxtercat5462

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rip Sumrall - gotta love Endeavour! Lol

  • @johndododoe1411

    @johndododoe1411

    4 жыл бұрын

    He loved it so much he kept the name for C206 DM-2.

  • @wargey3431

    @wargey3431

    4 жыл бұрын

    Zeta0001 it could have been avoided look at the issues at nasa command they literally said ohh there has been damage to the tiles before and it came through fine so it should be ok same thing happened with the O rings

  • @RandomCommentDue

    @RandomCommentDue

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@wargey3431 The engineers also were at fault as in testing they thought it was impossible for the foam to damage the carbon carbon, and told management not to worry. It took just the right angle and size of foam for damage to the carbon carbon to occur, and sadly it was from a part that didnt need the foam.

  • @user-lv7ph7hs7l

    @user-lv7ph7hs7l

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@wargey3431 The O rings even more. Thiokol engineers where begging NASA not to launch, predicting disaster. The administrator famously exclaiming: "So when do you want me to launch in Spring??!"

  • @korzhikmorzhik
    @korzhikmorzhik4 жыл бұрын

    🙂“I’m Scott Manley” 😐 “Fly safe”

  • @itbeniro7757
    @itbeniro77574 жыл бұрын

    'As late as 2020' Well, finally a spaceflight date that was hit bang on.

  • @AsbestosMuffins

    @AsbestosMuffins

    4 жыл бұрын

    unless they get a crewed orion up to ISS in the next 6 months they're gonna blow right past that

  • @spider0804

    @spider0804

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AsbestosMuffins lol its NASA so in 6 years maybe.

  • @spinningsquare1325

    @spinningsquare1325

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AsbestosMuffins they launched on my birthday

  • @Nobuga1

    @Nobuga1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@spinningsquare1325 Mine too 😁

  • @dylandevlin2102

    @dylandevlin2102

    4 жыл бұрын

    spider0804 you do know president Obama cancelled the NASA Space Program back in 2013-2014

  • @rcoder01
    @rcoder014 жыл бұрын

    1:30 "the date of retirement was pushed back from 2012 to 2020" Imagine still seeing shuttle flying today

  • @baxtercat5462

    @baxtercat5462

    4 жыл бұрын

    Arnav Mummineni - what a wild thought. Just had nostalgia

  • @Kineth1

    @Kineth1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well, I mean, I'm sure there are still _parts_ of it still flying today...

  • @robertsteinbeiss8478

    @robertsteinbeiss8478

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just give a Shuttle to SpaceX and they refurbish, split the weight and mount it to a F9 Superheavy to get it up, I bet!

  • @KaiHenningsen

    @KaiHenningsen

    4 жыл бұрын

    Imagine how many more shuttle disasters we might have seen in that time ... Really, I'd say the decisions leading to the current situation were made during the development of the shuttle. Continuous underfunding led to far too many design compromises.

  • @cpob2013

    @cpob2013

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well there was one accident every decade and a half so maybe one issue? But at the same time every accident is a hard learned lesson increasing safety for each subsequent launch. O rings and shielding got a lot more attention

  • @Jaroslawwchik
    @Jaroslawwchik4 жыл бұрын

    About 7 years ago I was a college freshman learning to play KSP watching your videos, Scott. Last week I was in MCC-X as Life Support Specialist of the Demo-2 mission. You are doing great work, I would not have made it here without your channel. Congrats on 1M, please carry on with your great work, and please fly safe!!!

  • @keco185
    @keco1854 жыл бұрын

    Landing a rocket was exciting, falcon heavy was exciting, launching men into space was exciting. But what I’m really excited for is to see them make a starship bellyflop.

  • @SolarWebsite

    @SolarWebsite

    4 жыл бұрын

    What I'm excited for is people going to the moon (or Mars, or wherever) to stay for good. I'm not sure I'll see that in my lifetime (I'm 45), but that would truly start a new era for all humanity. But, in fairness, I'd really like to see the starship bellyflop, too ;-)

  • @midship_nc

    @midship_nc

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SolarWebsite sign me up, i will be the first person to get high on mars

  • @snuffeldjuret

    @snuffeldjuret

    4 жыл бұрын

    yea bellyflop will be one for the ages!

  • @EtzEchad

    @EtzEchad

    4 жыл бұрын

    So far, they've all flopped. :)

  • @silwiegman8536

    @silwiegman8536

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah that'll be awsome,great times to be alive

  • @jannegrey593
    @jannegrey5934 жыл бұрын

    Every time SG-1 ended near earth needing rescue, space shuttle was ready to help. Damn fine ships.

  • @ohazi

    @ohazi

    4 жыл бұрын

    A formidable craft...

  • @atlanteean

    @atlanteean

    4 жыл бұрын

    "these ... "shuttles" ..., they are formidable craft? [...] oh, yeah... bad day

  • @theatom7264

    @theatom7264

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm still trying to figure out how the Shuttle recovered them & the Death Gliders after destroying two Goa'uld motherships. Shuttle bays werent nearly wide enough to haul back two Death Gliders.

  • @jesusmora9379

    @jesusmora9379

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@theatom7264 that's classified

  • @newsgetsold

    @newsgetsold

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's fictionary! 📽️

  • @ec8107
    @ec81074 жыл бұрын

    14:31 Boeing...software problems. Huh, where have I heard this before?

  • @tteot1wph

    @tteot1wph

    4 жыл бұрын

    haha I hadn't thought of that

  • @joer8854

    @joer8854

    4 жыл бұрын

    Boeing, covering up incompetence for over 100 years. See, their PR and advertising department needs to hire me.

  • @michaelearl6765

    @michaelearl6765

    4 жыл бұрын

    Boeing should have heeded the wise words of a man who once said: Check yo staging.

  • @jacksonclouse6011
    @jacksonclouse60114 жыл бұрын

    From Star Wars: c3po and falcon. From Star Trek: Vulcan, Starship, enterprise (test vehicle)... did I forget anything?

  • @bensemusx

    @bensemusx

    4 жыл бұрын

    The drone ship names are from a si-fi book series too

  • @techwizpc4484

    @techwizpc4484

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm gonna be waiting for a Halo.

  • @YaMumsSpecialFriend

    @YaMumsSpecialFriend

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating🖖🏼

  • @somedude-lc5dy

    @somedude-lc5dy

    4 жыл бұрын

    drone ships named for The Culture sci-fi books.

  • @CNC-Time-Lapse

    @CNC-Time-Lapse

    4 жыл бұрын

    Voyager was IN Star Trek, if you recall. Does that count?

  • @armchairrocketscientist4934
    @armchairrocketscientist49344 жыл бұрын

    8:36 - I cannot believe the single constellation test flight cost so much. I had a bit of nostalgia for constellation, cause it was the big space plan when I was a kid, but looking back it was just proto SLS.

  • @izzad777

    @izzad777

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thats not including the cost repairing the launch pad. Ares I damaged it during the launch.

  • @phoenixrising4573

    @phoenixrising4573

    4 жыл бұрын

    @keith moore F35 had nothing on the pork barrel that has been constellation/SLS

  • @steveperreira5850

    @steveperreira5850

    4 жыл бұрын

    There is no limit to cost on a “cost plus (profit)” contract, simple arithmetic proves that the incentives are to increase costs since the profit increases proportionally. Whoever came up with this idea in the government should be Publicly executed.

  • @steveperreira5850

    @steveperreira5850

    4 жыл бұрын

    phoenix rising The F 35 is the worst fighter ever for the money with the most cost overruns ever. What are you thinking? It is not a $400 million boondoggle like that one space shot, it is 1000 times worse at $400 billion and rising!

  • @teknoman117

    @teknoman117

    4 жыл бұрын

    I remember thinking I would want to go see one of those big Ares V launchers go. 188t to LEO would have surpassed even the Saturn V's performance of 140t to LEO. SLS is currently slated to top out at 130t for block 2.

  • @saberline152
    @saberline1524 жыл бұрын

    wait falcon heavy is already two years ago?? seems like yesterday... boeing having software problems? seems like business as usual

  • @DeeSnow97

    @DeeSnow97

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm more surprised that the first landing of the Falcon 9 was almost five years ago. Still remember how that day felt.

  • @dereenaldoambun9158

    @dereenaldoambun9158

    4 жыл бұрын

    Time flies so fast just like the rocket.

  • @mwnciboo

    @mwnciboo

    4 жыл бұрын

    *NASA* "We have all these damn bugs in the software" *BOEING* "They are features..."

  • @after_midnight9592

    @after_midnight9592

    4 жыл бұрын

    H1-B software developers?

  • @pyrowave1545
    @pyrowave15454 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for keeping the politics out and real info in! Great to see someone made it clear it took 4 presidential terms to get to this point...this deserve to be in US History text book.

  • @midship_nc

    @midship_nc

    4 жыл бұрын

    I also appreciate the zero politics. he didnt even use names, just generalizations.

  • @tlr9403

    @tlr9403

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well this is literally politics... What are you talking about?

  • @erilgaz

    @erilgaz

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lawrenceallen8096 The commerical crew program was started in 2011, which was during the presidency of Obama. Last week's US manned launch was in part thanks to the actions of Barrack Obama, along with Bush who started the privatization of launch capabilities.

  • @donjones4719

    @donjones4719

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lawrenceallen8096 Gee, thanks for the intense political reply to a comment about *keeping out* political comments.

  • @TheBreed010

    @TheBreed010

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@erilgaz thanks Obama ... though I think this is not the proper usage of this phrase, at least not near lawrence "nomiddlename" allen

  • @vbscript2
    @vbscript24 жыл бұрын

    Aside from the political problems, I think Constellation also had some image problems. In particular, the almost complete lack of a public image. In summer of 2007, I was working with many fellow college students as a summer engineering intern between my Junior and Senior years of college at a USAF aerodynamics testing facility. This particular facility was not very far away from one of the NASA facilities where a significant part of the Constellation development was being conducted and that NASA facility's prime contractor was the same company that we worked for at the USAF base. So, they took us all over there for a tour one day. In this room full of super-geeky engineers who were working in the aerospace research industry, few if any of us were familiar with the Ares rockets at all, despite the fact that, at the time, they were the entire planned future of U.S. manned spaceflight. It becomes a lot easier for politicians to cancel the entire planned future of U.S. manned spaceflight when much of the general public isn't even aware of the plan.

  • @teddy.d174
    @teddy.d1744 жыл бұрын

    Scott you’re one of the very best at what you do here on this platform, thank you very much for your contributions to all things space and congrats on 1m! All the best to you sir.

  • @Devan1107
    @Devan11074 жыл бұрын

    The automatic subtitles start with: "although it's got manly here" and I approve!

  • @badiucosmin2966
    @badiucosmin29664 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on the 1M subscribers.Great content!

  • @dropdead234

    @dropdead234

    4 жыл бұрын

    I honestly thought he had more than that. Just never looked.

  • @mikec8856
    @mikec88564 жыл бұрын

    They actually named the office c3po lmao

  • @livethefuture2492

    @livethefuture2492

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mike Cooper At least they didn't name it CCCP

  • @spacewardDev

    @spacewardDev

    4 жыл бұрын

    Live The Future oof

  • @BattlestarZenobia

    @BattlestarZenobia

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@livethefuture2492 CCCP is better than C3PO

  • @cumguzzler8537
    @cumguzzler85374 жыл бұрын

    Hey Scott, will you cover the KSP 2 situation? I think its kinda sad that a company known for its monetisation schemes has got the contract now.

  • @Kineth1

    @Kineth1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow. I hadn't known before that the KSP2 project managers were known rapists. You just broke my heart, but thankfully tempered my expectations. Another WOW... I just did a quick search of "private division monetization" and they EXPLICITLY state that they will take action against anybody who tries to make money off of their derivative works, whether it is through advertisements or merchandising. And then: They go on to make claims against "any other big reveal in the story." Seriously, showing off a landing on the Mun, Minmus, or Duna could be considered a "big reveal in the story." They need to do some serious re-thinking of their policies if they expect to maintain a healthy relationship with the KSP community.

  • @Aldnon

    @Aldnon

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Kineth1 Who?

  • @The_Seeker

    @The_Seeker

    4 жыл бұрын

    What's wrong with Uberent?

  • @davidb6576

    @davidb6576

    4 жыл бұрын

    I don't even play KSP, and I'm pissed-off about how Star Theory was treated! I hope the Kerbal Kommunity sticks it to Take-Two, but given how "DGAF" most gamers are I doubt it.

  • @Kineth1

    @Kineth1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Aldnon "Private Division" is the company that is publishing KSP2.

  • @FourthRoot
    @FourthRoot4 жыл бұрын

    I've been following SpaceX closely ever since its second Falcon 9 flight. What a ride.

  • @Hexydes

    @Hexydes

    4 жыл бұрын

    I've been following since before Falcon 1's first flight! Those times were so slow, it felt like there would never be a chance SpaceX could ever have a viable space program. Here we are 16 or so years later, and landing a booster from space is boring because I want Starship to carry 50 people to the Moon.

  • @izzad777

    @izzad777

    4 жыл бұрын

    I took notice of SpaceX after its first flight. It seemed so wild to me at the time that a private company is launching huge rockets to orbit.

  • @user-lv7ph7hs7l

    @user-lv7ph7hs7l

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@izzad777 I honestly was a big fan of the Atlas V and while Falcon 1 seemed cool but irrelevant, Falcon 9 just didn't look very impressive. I thought, wait this is supposed to replace my beloved Shuttle? I was told they had big plans including reusing those rockets but I didn't care. All I cared about was that Shuttle had maybe 2-3 flights left and that was it. Then things got very interesting very quickly.

  • @spacexishorriblepleasedeleteit

    @spacexishorriblepleasedeleteit

    Жыл бұрын

    Well then you're not a good person. spacex is such a horrible thing.

  • @FourthRoot

    @FourthRoot

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spacexishorriblepleasedeleteit Care to elaborate?

  • @hardwicg
    @hardwicg4 жыл бұрын

    There has never been a more steely eyed missile man than Scott Manley.

  • @SilvanaDil
    @SilvanaDil4 жыл бұрын

    The space shuttles were so cool. Being able to land back on earth just like an airplane.

  • @protheu5
    @protheu54 жыл бұрын

    It's always so satisfying to hear "Fly safe". And I never get bored, I start to watch these videos about the stuff I can make lectures about, yet still I just listen and enjoy. Thank you, Scott Manley, and thank all your audience. It's all so nice to be united about space technologies.

  • @interestedinstuff1499
    @interestedinstuff14994 жыл бұрын

    Such a clear presentation. I can see why you have a million folks tuning in for your stuff. Great work.

  • @Snyper1188
    @Snyper11884 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations on 1 million subscribers, Scott! Thanks for the details of all of the in between, hope you are doing well!

  • @gregoryestrada3297
    @gregoryestrada32974 жыл бұрын

    I want to thank you for being you. Your attention to detail is amazing. Every time I get into a NASA conversation or when I talk about space for that matter, with my friends, I refer them to you. I do so because I respect your accounting. Keep up the good work, Scott.

  • @lextacy2008

    @lextacy2008

    4 жыл бұрын

    Detail? He literally gave 5 seconds to the actual launch and re-hashed all his past Space X videos as a review session.

  • @Brixxter

    @Brixxter

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lextacy2008 this video isn't about the launch. It's about the whole history. Reading the title might help.

  • @lextacy2008

    @lextacy2008

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Brixxter Not the point. I don't know of any space enthusiast who posted an off topic video after the DM-2 launch. Would it be feasible for NBC news to cover the cake baking contest as the the top story for tonight as opposed to a 9.2 earthquake that wold hit LA? I don't think so.

  • @fhmconsulting4982
    @fhmconsulting49824 жыл бұрын

    As this video shows, over the last few months the part timers, semi pros, amateurs and enthusiasts have raised the bar so much I think they deserve a dedicated Space\Science Channel. As dreams go this may seem far fetched but, as showed with SpaceX, from small beginnings an awful lot can change in 10 years.

  • @737smartin
    @737smartin4 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on 1M subscribers AND on cramming all that history into a 15min-ish video. Both great accomplishments!

  • @kristjanpeil
    @kristjanpeil4 жыл бұрын

    S. Manley, the no. 1 source on how stuff actually goes on.

  • @PetetheNorwegian
    @PetetheNorwegian4 жыл бұрын

    Love the thoroughness of these videos! Future generations will thank you!

  • @solotron7390
    @solotron73904 жыл бұрын

    Scott Manley never fails to present meaningful information, rather than simply repeating other's video content. Great work!

  • @wescarnegie1711
    @wescarnegie17114 жыл бұрын

    Awesome recap Scott! Lots of great footage of so many memories of the last couple decades.

  • @dogydoo1098
    @dogydoo10984 жыл бұрын

    That "Fly Safe" gave me nightmares.

  • @RWBHere
    @RWBHere3 жыл бұрын

    Has anyone else noticed Scott's scary eyes, when he says, 'Fly safe!'?

  • @anthoneyking6572
    @anthoneyking65724 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Scott, I really love your Vlog and they are informative and stick the important facts thank you so much

  • @Amantla
    @Amantla4 жыл бұрын

    love your vids Scotty, thanks for the SN4 Explosion review, your vid on that was amazing.

  • @Yrouel86
    @Yrouel864 жыл бұрын

    I think the first Falcon Heavy launch was also relevant to the Commercial Crew Program, while not technically, it further fueled the excitement toward SpaceX and space in general and further legitimized SpaceX as a company that can actually achieve its objectives

  • @spacexishorriblepleasedeleteit

    @spacexishorriblepleasedeleteit

    Жыл бұрын

    Nobody is excited for spacex. Everybody hates it. spacex will not achieve anything, it will keep failing.

  • @scasey1960
    @scasey19604 жыл бұрын

    How Nasa shifted from cost-plus to fixed-cost contracts.

  • @jshepard152

    @jshepard152

    4 жыл бұрын

    If only they would switch fully. Make no mistake.... The taxpayer is still being raped.

  • @RandomCommentDue

    @RandomCommentDue

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jshepard152 Theyre trying, but Congress really wants likes them, and Congress has a lot of control over NASA's contracts

  • @shallowabyss515

    @shallowabyss515

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@RandomCommentDue It's really a mystery why congress repeatedly screws the american taxpayer by advocating for cost-plus... Also a mystery how so many politicians end up as consultants and lobbyists for Defense Contractors... Weird.

  • @Kineth1

    @Kineth1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ShallowAbyss it's no mystery... The congress/senator persons voting for these ridiculous contracts are voting for the promise of the contractors setting up production/development facilities in their voting districts. The congress/senator/consultant/lobbyist gets to say "I created 5000 jobs in by passing this contract!" (never mind that the people employed by the contract were not already residents in the district, and are guaranteed to abandon the district as soon as the contract is complete) "and you can count on me creating more ((net zero value)) jobs the next time I vote to overpay for basic services!"

  • @VainerCactus0

    @VainerCactus0

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Kineth1 That is exactly why the government should have way less money than they do now. You can't trust they will spend it wisely.

  • @mikeissweet
    @mikeissweet4 жыл бұрын

    What a ride! I've been following SpaceX the whole way

  • @stevefink6000
    @stevefink60004 жыл бұрын

    One of the your best Scott, nice work.

  • @weatheranddarkness
    @weatheranddarkness4 жыл бұрын

    somebody forgot to check their staging at 6:18

  • @Skiesaremine

    @Skiesaremine

    4 жыл бұрын

    The engine shut down, but the remaining thrust collided with the upper stage.

  • @KnightRanger38

    @KnightRanger38

    4 жыл бұрын

    That was a case where a slight delay in staging might have led to the third Falcon 1 rocket putting its payload into orbit.

  • @Anvilshock

    @Anvilshock

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KnightRanger38Thanks for fixing your apostrophe! Fly safe!

  • @dolata000
    @dolata0004 жыл бұрын

    9:15 - You mention a really great paper about safety aspects of Ares/Antares. Reference or URL please ???

  • @gogny7665

    @gogny7665

    4 жыл бұрын

    Up ! It would be great, i'm searching it...

  • @nothke

    @nothke

    4 жыл бұрын

    Search for "spaceref fratricide report" (comments with links seem to get hidden, so you'll have to google). Scott has mentioned it multiple times before. However, note that NASA has issued a statement afterwards saying that "We have analysis that tells today that the capsule will fly free of the danger". You can find that statement by searching "orlandosentinel ares I report" Since SLS is also using the same SRBs (2x!) and Orion LES hasn't really changed, I assume that the same situation would exist with SLS. But I haven't heard anything about this issue in the recent years, so I assumed that this has been buried as an unsupported theory. Scott's voice while saying "great" also sounds kinda sarcastic, so I'm not sure if he means "great" as good, or "great" as dramatically entertaining (which the report certainly is starting with the title "100% FRATRICIDE") But you never know when some "unsupported theory" will resurface after something happens, as has many time before. It's always good to be aware!

  • @MoonWeasel23
    @MoonWeasel234 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for just giving a history lesson. Probably the only KZreadr I’ll be watching so that I can focus on something other than the world burning. Also, could you do a video on small rocket engines like Curie, Rutherford, engines on the sky crane for the mars landers, etc? I feel like everyone knows the big boy rockets on the boosters and second stages but the little engines that could never get the recognition they deserve.

  • @FingonNZ
    @FingonNZ4 жыл бұрын

    Great video Scott. Congrats on your 1m subscribers!

  • @jeffharmed1616
    @jeffharmed16164 жыл бұрын

    Wow! In just 15 minutes you covered a lot of history. Can you put it all into a book or pdf?

  • @Ninjastahr
    @Ninjastahr4 жыл бұрын

    I'm so pumped for the next 5-10 years of spaceflight - we're going back to the moon! Heck yeah!

  • @herbbearingseed

    @herbbearingseed

    4 жыл бұрын

    HA!HA! They never got there in the first place.

  • @rblxmach

    @rblxmach

    4 жыл бұрын

    herbbearingseed we did go to the moon...

  • @joakimlindblom5200
    @joakimlindblom52004 жыл бұрын

    Bravo! This was an excellent summary of the last 20 years leading up to last Saturdays flight. Very well researched and presented!

  • @cameronbutler31
    @cameronbutler314 жыл бұрын

    Great summery! Crazy to see it all recaped and see how far we have come

  • @johiahdoesstuff1614
    @johiahdoesstuff16144 жыл бұрын

    They set a new record today, so that was neat I suppose

  • @spider0804
    @spider08044 жыл бұрын

    Loss of congressional control over space supply is the minute space supply started to actually be a thing.

  • @Senor0Droolcup
    @Senor0Droolcup4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent summary of this history: thank you, Scott!

  • @DavidGalich77
    @DavidGalich7710 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the recap. It has been a wild ride and it is far from over.

  • @poruatokin
    @poruatokin4 жыл бұрын

    Not to get political, but I remember when the Obama administration was heavily criticized for effectively ending the Constellation program. Everyone was crying "Oh, waily waily waily, 'tis the sound o' Doom..." Interesting now to see how that decision was absolutely the right way to go. If it hadn't been for the bias toward the commercial programs back then, it would have been at least another five years before a manned launch from the US.

  • @peterarmstrong8613

    @peterarmstrong8613

    4 жыл бұрын

    Paul, thank you for supporting my comments on the trump speech. Pete a.

  • @thanksfernuthin
    @thanksfernuthin4 жыл бұрын

    Huh! When you describe it all like that it seems much less chaotic. As if they were all working towards goals and achieving them over time.

  • @mikeclarke952
    @mikeclarke9524 жыл бұрын

    Great summary video, thanks Scott!

  • @runningray
    @runningray4 жыл бұрын

    This one was so good, that I had to watch it twice.

  • @Caddowolf
    @Caddowolf4 жыл бұрын

    Bob and Doug. "Take off! Eh?" How many of you "hosers" get that reference?

  • @OldTrekkie23

    @OldTrekkie23

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great White North! Eh?

  • @harryballz6740

    @harryballz6740

    4 жыл бұрын

    On ly everyone from Canada

  • @jdriver1419

    @jdriver1419

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Strang brew" i think it was called.

  • @tehbonehead

    @tehbonehead

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it was cool when they said "let's light this candle," but i would have cheered louder if they had said "take off, eh!"

  • @briandeschene8424

    @briandeschene8424

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cooo, loo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coooo! Cooo, loo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coooo!

  • @marcschouten3474
    @marcschouten34744 жыл бұрын

    Bob and Doug always gets a laugh from Canadians.

  • @alexwoloshyn9222

    @alexwoloshyn9222

    4 жыл бұрын

    The hosers took off!

  • @-danR

    @-danR

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@alexwoloshyn9222 eh

  • @EnginAtik

    @EnginAtik

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just as they docked, they reported how many bottles of water they consumed. CANADIANs knew what they meant.

  • @stephenhammond6962
    @stephenhammond69622 жыл бұрын

    Such a great insight into how things relating to space has progressed 👌 Great video as always Scott 👍

  • @oscartango8234
    @oscartango82343 жыл бұрын

    Amazing to see the friendship and comraderie within the spaceflight community. Its inspiring

  • @travisjicorcoran5870
    @travisjicorcoran58704 жыл бұрын

    Bravo for saying "new president" at several points instead of naming names. It's a great idea that avoids creating the temptation for culture war nonsense in the comments.

  • @quazar5017
    @quazar50174 жыл бұрын

    "At least according to one account somebody who was going to build a rocket engine in their garage." - Starhopper

  • @KnightRanger38

    @KnightRanger38

    4 жыл бұрын

    The rocket engine for Starhopper was actually built in a factory. Everything but the engine and electronics though were put together in a empty field.

  • @ShelburneCountry

    @ShelburneCountry

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KnightRanger38 So if I build a car in my Garage, but order a crate engine for it, I didn't really build a car in my Garage? Or if I build a Computer in my basement, but install an Intel processor, I didn't build the computer?

  • @JohnDoe-420

    @JohnDoe-420

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ShelburneCountry you assembled it. I think that's enough to get you a "made in garage" sticker under the eyes of the law, but you have to admit the hardest parts of the build were not done in-house.

  • @joer8854

    @joer8854

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@JohnDoe-420 This is such a stupid argument. So nobody had ever in the history of the world ever thought of building a plane, done any science on it before the wright brothers. They just out of thin air decided, Hey I'm going to build something to fly. That's when they started work on designing and creating the worlds first internal combustion engine, a thought never before had in history. Every advancement ever made in the history of the world used knowledge and items created by those who came before them. Nobody ever got there completely 100% on their own. Building an engine doesn't mean you own and get credit for everything that engine will ever get used in from that point on. For that matter, most of the US space program and their advances using your criteria belongs to the Russians. They've used Russian engines for decades.

  • @JohnDoe-420

    @JohnDoe-420

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@joer8854 you're right but it has absolutely nothing to do with the post you replied to which is about where something was manufactured...

  • @RTD1947
    @RTD19474 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding video!! Nice job Scott

  • @TheCebulon
    @TheCebulon4 жыл бұрын

    Great description of the timeline. Greetings from Munich, Tom.

  • @FreeJaffa92
    @FreeJaffa924 жыл бұрын

    I still have two questions. 1. Was there an alternative to the SLS before Richard Shelby got his hands on it? 2. What what is the total amount of time lost during the commercial crew program not attributable to government funding shortfalls? I know that Dragon had to lose its Landing legs and The DM one Capsule had A rapid unscheduled disassembly, but what was the original projected date of launch after the first year of full commercial crew funding because I thought it was supposed to be 2017-2018.

  • @RandomCommentDue

    @RandomCommentDue

    4 жыл бұрын

    1: Look at the RAC1-3 concepts, which were the proposed designed to replace Constellation. RAC1 I believe was what became SLS and was picked because it was the only one that maintained Shuttle contracts, which NASAknew would be the easiest sell 2:Its hard to quantify how much it extended the time. It certainlt did, just hard to say how long, especially as there are always delays in spaceflight.

  • @AsbestosMuffins

    @AsbestosMuffins

    4 жыл бұрын

    I remember something pitched called Jupiter that would have relied more on several new core technologies such as another giant f1 style engine, methane upper stage, and such but i don't think it ever went past a white paper as for how delayed CC is because of underfunding is not really easy to quantify since spacex has done quite a lot of development outside of nasa launches. the thing is full funding could have allowed nasa to fund more than 2 vehicles, and possibly got ULA to test their stuff more thoroughly

  • @odysseyvoyager2354

    @odysseyvoyager2354

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well as far as SLS goes, There were 3 main options RAC-1, 2, and 3. RAC-1 was shuttle-derived 8.4m wide core Hydrolox & SRBs RAC-2 was the 10m wide "modern Saturn V" powered by RP-1 RAC-3 was basically a combination of different components from various launch vehicles. Ultimately RAC-1 became SLS.

  • @FreeJaffa92

    @FreeJaffa92

    4 жыл бұрын

    PsychoLucario I actually disagree, The funding had a specific time timeline attached to it. 2016 was to be if Full funding had started in 2012, actual full funding started in 2014, specifically CCIp was completed in 2014 it should’ve been done in 2012. I could be wrong.

  • @BatteredWalrus
    @BatteredWalrus4 жыл бұрын

    Boeing having software problems, where have I heard that before...... (looks over at grounded 737 max's)

  • @wenlocke

    @wenlocke

    4 жыл бұрын

    This.

  • @mduvigneaud

    @mduvigneaud

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah. :( Boeing seems to be pushing too hard and taking shortcuts.

  • @mrgucciman
    @mrgucciman4 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting, thanks Scott!

  • @JakobWilsonPDX
    @JakobWilsonPDX4 жыл бұрын

    Another great video making space flight and our future more accessible to everyone

  • @trafichat
    @trafichat4 жыл бұрын

    C3PO *Sounds familiar*

  • @Atlessa

    @Atlessa

    4 жыл бұрын

    This isn't the office you're looking for.

  • @soravalentin6906

    @soravalentin6906

    4 жыл бұрын

    CP30 There, I rearranged it to reflect Chris Paul's total rings

  • @AeroSpaced296
    @AeroSpaced2964 жыл бұрын

    Hello from India 🇮🇳👋

  • @j0hn7r0n

    @j0hn7r0n

    4 жыл бұрын

    👋

  • @btickson
    @btickson4 жыл бұрын

    Bob and Doug just sound so Kerbel I smile every time.

  • @skyhiker9669
    @skyhiker96694 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! Thanks Scott.

  • @DonTekNO
    @DonTekNO4 жыл бұрын

    The last time someone said "Fly safe" that stern towardsme , i found my self in a 3 month 0.0 war campaign

  • @weatherbyblades5181
    @weatherbyblades51814 жыл бұрын

    Hello from arizona USA!

  • @xXLtDudeXx

    @xXLtDudeXx

    4 жыл бұрын

    Florida checkin' in.

  • @guyranting
    @guyranting4 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic documentary on this history!

  • @CFG-eb3my
    @CFG-eb3my4 жыл бұрын

    thanks always, concise-accurate, stay the course

  • @drfrankensteinscreations8513
    @drfrankensteinscreations85134 жыл бұрын

    "It was cobbled together with spare parts... in a cave!"

  • @CONCEPTUALMAN

    @CONCEPTUALMAN

    4 жыл бұрын

    By Robert Downey Jr !

  • @dwightlooi
    @dwightlooi4 жыл бұрын

    The Shuttle was the worst thing to happen to NASA; it was the White Elephant that bankrupted NASA while keeping it in LEO. After Apollo, NASA could have gone to a low cost 25 ton to LEO ELV with one F1A engine on the first stage and one J2S on the upper stage. Performance would be slightly better than the F9 1.2 in throwaway mode to LEO and substantially better to GEO or Earth Escape. It would have built a Space Station faster than the Shuttle could. And, it would have sent probes to the outer planets better than the collection of Titans, Deltas and Atlases -- possibly with the probes having a 20 ton kicker 3rd stage with an AJ10 or something so it can help with both Earth Escape and the Capture Burn years into the mission.

  • @JerrSpud

    @JerrSpud

    4 жыл бұрын

    Like it says in the CAIB.. Nixon cut the development budget in half. That's why the shuttle happened. There's a whole chapter about it in the CAIB report.

  • @jshepard152

    @jshepard152

    4 жыл бұрын

    Have my likes, sir.

  • @dalecomer5951

    @dalecomer5951

    4 жыл бұрын

    The Shuttle was created by NASA. They created their own problems.

  • @poruatokin

    @poruatokin

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dalecomer5951 Wrong - the shuttle project was doomed by the US Air Force's requirements that were forced on it

  • @avejst
    @avejst4 жыл бұрын

    Great walkthrough 👍 Thanks for sharing 👍😀

  • @Inchaos42
    @Inchaos424 жыл бұрын

    Damn good overview, Mr. Manley. This fine journalism.

  • @Rangifulla
    @Rangifulla4 жыл бұрын

    SpaceX working hard while the rest just fumble around

  • @fcgHenden
    @fcgHenden4 жыл бұрын

    What do you do? "I'm with C3PO."

  • @joer8854

    @joer8854

    4 жыл бұрын

    As others have sort of stated, better than saying you're with "CCCP"

  • @AllkoDH
    @AllkoDH4 жыл бұрын

    Great informative video as always. Thanks!

  • @christianoakley3488
    @christianoakley34884 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed that,...very informative. I could actually go for a longer version of this video providing more detail on the evolution from the Space Shuttle to SpaceX and Commercial Rockets. .

  • @ThomasPlaysTheGames
    @ThomasPlaysTheGames4 жыл бұрын

    I like your content Scott, but I'm no fan of premieres. At least this seems like an instant-start premiere. *edit - I guess we'll see how this video performs compared to his normal video publications in terms of views/likes.

  • @protheu5

    @protheu5

    4 жыл бұрын

    What are you talking about? What's a premiere, what's wrong?

  • @animationspace8550

    @animationspace8550

    4 жыл бұрын

    premieres are great tho, why don't you like them?

  • @protheu5

    @protheu5

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@animationspace8550 What premiere? What are you talking about? Is this a new thing when you are "premiere" when it's first minutes after publishing? Wh- why? Why do people care about this?

  • @Rupe1992
    @Rupe19924 жыл бұрын

    Hullllllloooooooo

  • @richardgrant4366
    @richardgrant43664 жыл бұрын

    An inspiration! Thank you!

  • @compmanio36
    @compmanio364 жыл бұрын

    Not gonna lie, I teared up more than once during the launch and successful orbit of the Dragon crew capsule. All these years and we're back in space, leading the way. All of America should have been united behind this momentous occasion. Instead far too many weren't even paying attention.

  • @paulsink2800
    @paulsink28004 жыл бұрын

    Awesome recap. Thanks

  • @SpaceFactsWax
    @SpaceFactsWax3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for uploading. I had the opporunity to witness a rocket launch in 2018. Amazing experience. I shared a pretty awesome clip of the experience to my channel.

  • @trails3597
    @trails35974 жыл бұрын

    Great perspective on the synergy between NASA and SpaceX.

  • @timothypirnat3754
    @timothypirnat37544 жыл бұрын

    Well done. Well thought out and logically presented.

  • @alessandrofuligni4015
    @alessandrofuligni40154 жыл бұрын

    Man I love Scott's videos!

  • @tarkajedi3331
    @tarkajedi33314 жыл бұрын

    Excellent.... Really exellent job sir!!!

  • @GinaTool
    @GinaTool4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Scott. It's nice to see all the history in one video. I'd have to search through your content for hours to piece it all together. I love the what you do. Keep it coming

  • @suchdevelopments
    @suchdevelopments4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Report on the history of space flight since the end of the Space Shuttle.

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