Happy New Year! I’ve got a gift for the viewers today! Who killed the NASA Nuclear Mars Rocket? In 1952, Wehrner Von Braun came up with a plan to put 70 astronauts on Mars! Nuclear engines would be necessary for this, and it’s shocking to know just how close we came to making this dream a reality!
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That would be the environmentalists and probably the vietnam war.
26:18 26:18 Can we somehow "mothball" projects like NERVA and their industrial-base, rather than let them vaporise into nothing?
Maybe we should bring in an "act" that specifies that such achievements should be preserved in something like the "boneyard" until their time comes back again!
I hate going backwards!
aliens prohibit using nuculear engines, it'd tickle their testicles
Did you share this information with Elon Musk? if not, you should.
The United States tested the SNAP-10A nuclear reactor in space that mimics the NERVA Reactor … The majority of nuclear power systems launched into space remain in graveyard orbits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_space
Ok but the work has been done so why not carry on.
It's always bloody politics time after time.
Here, we have Nixon's competitive response to Britain's own home-grown stuff-up, the cancellation of the nearly completed TSR2 ĵet fighter. Who won? Politicians, of course! The actual competition itself could possibly be seen as yet another typical political sleight of hand, the old familiar 'let's call it a draw' trick. And the biggest losers? Everyone and anyone working enthusiastically in the Space Industry! 🙄😢☹️
What happened was Vietnam, Nixon , Carter ,
NASA had a working nuclear propulsion engine capable of enabling Mars colonization as early as the 1980s, what went wrong?
In a word = democrats
You mean our lame-brained elected "Leaders" just gave up!
They prefered to transfer massive amounts of our Nations wealth to their pals, backers, friends and cronnies via WARFARE in Vietnam.
And it worked. Our best young men were used as cannon foder and money for weapons was spent like water.
I like the beard better
Excellent synopsis of an otherwise forgotten program.
When discussing Wehrner Von Braun, the first thing that needs to be said is he was a nazi, who brought into nazi ideology, and oversaw slave labor operations that may killed more people then his V2 rocket did. This is more then a black mark or a foot note, it is the major thing he did in his life.
His work in and leadership of the U.S. space program is the footnote.
Happy New Year!! this was an awesome episode!!! Great way for me to begin the first day of 2025!!
5:42: That is not 1960's music, but 1930's "modern" orchestral music, in the mode of Rachmaninoff.
Now the scientific part has been shown by angry…really welll…I would like to know the $$$$s…how much would cost projects like this…Apollo was VERY!!!, VERY!! expensive…NASA budget was in the 1960s 6 times or more than today's budget….and probably was entirely, or 90% for the moon. I love space but down to earth….i would like to know the costs of these projets….and probably we will know the answer why these projets were shut down
25:00: "Can you imagine is that test [of a nuclear engine in orbit] had taken place in say, 1982?"
Any imagining of what NASA could have done needs to take in account the ever increasing schedule delays and cost overruns by NASA, which are approaching exponential growth.
Happy New Year!🎉
Now, do a story in Timberwind
Thrust (force) = mass X acceleration. So using a lighter propellant isn't an automatic win. How much faster WAS the nozzle acceleration?
15:40 What would the EPA or others say about testing on or beyond the Moon?
Very interesting as I was previously unaware of any of this.
Nice job on this vid!
before some screeching "well actually" clown chimes in, these types of rockets rent used in atmosphere. yes they were tested here on earth, but keep in mind this was also the era of setting off nukes in the desert and on some unlucky islanders home island. nuclear power in rockets and in the power needed to run your home, is the only viable means of going forward. if the idea is to get humanity off of its carbon habit then nuclear power will oform the foundation of our power grids. solar, wind, hydro, batteries, etc… are all supplemental sources and this is doubly true up in space. solar panels in spaceas a primary power source for any crewed mission would be criminally irresponsible, when nuclear offers several schemes by which power and thrust can be produced in copious amounts and at a consistent rate
Are we SURE they killed these plans? Or did they maybe go underground? We aren't losing $1 Trillion per year in the U.S.A. funding NOTHING. It's disappearing ON SOMETHING.
0:52 – Actually, quite familiar with how close came as one of my professors in college worked on Kiwi (flightless NERVA). He had some interesting stories from the work like the final destruction test they performed. They pulled all the control rods out and just let the engine go. He noted that it was so powerful on the thrust that it shook itself apart as he saw fuel rods being spit out the nozzle due to the engine breaking some of the struts holding the fuel rods in place and the fuel rods were shot out the nozzle.
@Angry – your timing is off on how long it would take to get to and from Mars. Based on information from my professor (the one mentioned above) that was working on the project, it would only take about 30 to 45 days to get to Mars, not 90.
UFOs and paperclip including the Japanese scientists have mind blowing blowing connections to Nuclear aviation. For more information I recommend "Body Snatchers in the Desert" by Nick Redfern.
Or just ask me and I'll give the bigger story.
They (your audience) are right…your music does suck.
Please, don't use music at all.
I thought Russia had one for some reason.
The music at 6 minutes could be Charles Ives or an other great almost forgotten American composer.
doubt it work, would blow up
In terms of scale, going to Mars is like going to your neighbours place, with the sun being the town over, it's that close and very pointless. In less than 100 years we should be able to catch up to Voyager2 in less than a weekend. But hey, lets wait 10, 15, 20,000 years for Mars to possibly have atmosphere from nuking it? Pfft. Waste.
And who gets to decide who can throw our resources into the sun? Literally.
Sure you can own things and hoard them like a dragon, but in 100 years when you are dead and gone, it's someone elses turn with those resources..nope, never mind, threw them in the sun, just have to wait for another asteroid to do a door dash.
Mine the moon, throw 20, 50, 100kg lumps of gold into the ocean then dredge it up, easy.
Hacker Gary McKinnon got designations of the off world marines 30 years ago…Trump declassified Space Force in his first term…like the video says this is old technology…what is possible in 2025 would and does appear as magic or alien to the dumbed down general public
With the ending of ISS what is the future for Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser?
Hey…I think you're incidental music is great!
For All Mankind didnt have to do this research on Earth…the EPA probably wont care if we test these engines on the Moon.
WTF happened to your head
Happy new, very interesting document.
An excellent sci-fi roman by British author Stephen Baxter is 'voyage'
😂that music comment instant like
Wow, very insightful, thank you for sharing, this was the future I was hoping for and unfortunately will not be around long enough now to see it all come true.
Wow amazing video, always wanted to know why development of nuclear engages stoped, let hope history don’t repeat itself. Thanks
well we now know where the concept came from for Kubrick's vision of Discovery in 2001 A Space Odessey
I’m not familiar with the nuclear S-IVb stage flight profile but I suspect it would be placed in orbit like Skylab using the S-II rather than under its own power. A manned crew would be launched separately and dock with it, and then use it for propulsion. I can’t imagine it being launched critical and at power or doing a reactor startup during launch. What a mess if it was critical and at power if it had to abort.
New subscrber. So glad your videos have showed up in my feed. Fascinating information I have ever heard – and I thought I knew everything about Werner Von Braun. Thanks for your research – nuclear propulsion – wow! So does the hydrogen turn to plasma? The studies they're doing now with plasma is mind boggling.