Craziest Soviet Space Projects

[@K-rock08]

At this point, if you hear something of any sort was made by the Soviet Union, just expect it to look oddly weird and badass. The same goes for its performance as well.

[@deathincluded3706]

i wouldnt call the soviet space program as "bad ss"

[@jonnyq680]

Kid, I've flown from one side of the galaxy to the other and I've seen a lot of strange stuff. There's no all powerful force controlling my destiny. It's all just a bunch of simple tricks and nonsense.

[@Holgerdanske688]

At this point if you don't know that Russia was either given the designs and factories by the US in WW2 or that they stole almost everything from the west because communism stifles creativity and productivity then you might be amazed by videos as dumb as this.

[@Kraft-dw3tr]

@jonnyq680 a astronaut would not watch KZbin and he/she would not name someone kid

[@jonnyq680]

@Kraft-dw3tr Sorry. I LOVE Star Wars!

[@MaxQ10001]

I'm probably #10,000 to write this: Buran was not stolen. It looked much the same as the shuttle, but had no technical similarity whatsoever. It didn't have main engines, but was lifted by an Energia rocket. It had a fully automatic flight system, actually using AI to plan the landing based on weather dats. Many people say that it was better -- but that's neither the truth, because nobody can know. Buran was never completed. It did one fully automatic orbital flight and landing (not remote control, like the video states), which is a very impressive feat, but it was missing many systems to make it a usable manned vehicle. There are a lot of great videos about Buran, and even a few explaining the very advanced AI landing system. Fun fact: when it reentered and was going to land, the scientists thought the landing system had failed because it took a very strange course. But the AI system had interpreted the weather system better than the humans and took a perfect route to land perfectly.

[@jonny2557]

And the one prototype OK-GLI which flue 25 suborbital tests and could fly lice an airplane under its own power actually ended up as an exhibit at speyer technikmuseum in Germany🇩🇪

[@Dailylifestories-kj]

The Soviets actually led the space war by sending the first spacecraft into space and also the first human in space

[@ayaanmalik7363]

What are you talking to 0:55 💀

[@PeterMountUK]

Define space... if in orbit then yes, but if just over the Karman line (100km recognised by most counties), e.g. a suborbital flight then most people would be surprised tha the first spacecraft into space would be by Nazi Germany during WWII - the V2 did manage it

[@SandraBagans]

You mean they just shot up whatever they could and hoped it worked? I live near Cape Canaveral and I studied this in school

[@ManMilff]

And the first non-human. RIP Liaka

[@MathewRodriguez-lu7mb]

And we made it. To the moon

[@myENGexploration]

It's AMAZING, competitions bring innovation

[@AsurLankesh]

Yup, wish we had some comparative players today😢

[@armageddontools]

Another thing brings innovation but its ugly-war!

[@Hindusanatan192]

I know about soviet venus project. The first venus voyager failed on entry in venus atmosphere due to extreme temperature and pressure. But the soviets decided to land a satellite on the planet's surface with full functionality. Afterwards they launched many voyagers until they succeeded. A BIG SALUTE to the SOVIET UNION.

[@HamMan-l1e]

And US mocked at thier achievements

[@dellawrence4323]

@@HamMan-l1e While the US had to beg the Russians to take nasa astronauts to the ISS because all their Nazi war criminal rocket scientists had died and the yanks are too stupid to design a rocket motor.

[@JanLeoDeAsis]

When you think about it hard, it’s kinda sad how almost all these projects got halted or abandoned because their “father” died

[@SOFFtv]

Its like this with almost all large projects. Mount rushmoore was also famously halted during ww2 and the "father" of the project died a few years later so no passionate leader was left to lobby for continued funding, when there are 100s of other project leads begging for further funding too its more feasable to continue another project than trying to get a new lead with the same passion an drive up to speed

[@dougmoore4326]

The vehicle shown in the photo in the click bait ad for this constent is a Soviet civilian river hydrofoil. Nothing to do with space.

[@Axotic64]

Love the video, but a small correction: at 15:53 you said that the first N1 Failure was the big explosion. you´re actually describing the 2nd launch. But other than that it´s a great video and we need more space videos.

[@Godly_Frosty]

get out

[@TheNonameHousehold]

I completely geeked out at the fact that an actual space laser pistol exists 💥🔫🤩 -Adam

[@dzajro74]

they are complettly wrong. It was the ICBM R-19 failure when the rocket exploded during fuel filling and there were 91 dead. There were no causalty during the second failed launch of N1

[@colinleat8309]

I've been a Space program history nut for over 30 years, and there were several things I just learned. Yet another reminder of how extensive it is!

[@SandraBagans]

Did you know about the look alike shuttles rotting over there?

[@colinleat8309]

@@SandraBagans I knew they wanted to build them, but that they did, no. Too bad they weren't put in museum's.

[@SandraBagans]

@@colinleat8309 that's very true. We put ours in museums. And honestly their shuttles look way cooler

[@yellowcatmonkey]

thank u beamazed💖🌻

[@allansplace]

This is the first time hearing that the USSR and USA were on their way to the moon at the SAME TIME! (Too bad there's no atmosphere on our Moon - would the Americans heard the crash‽) How come we never hear about such things? This is astounding. ... Maybe we need to watch more productions like yours? :) Thanks for creating! Riveting 'til the end!

[@patriciaposthumus6684]

I could see how the space mirror could help Russia. In the winter, they have a good 3 months or so of no sunlight. The space mirror could provide the region with sunlight during this time frame. It could increase their growing season for food as well as productivity in other areas as well. Though I'm glad it didn't work. We have created enough issues with our climate as it is. We really don't need to cause any more damage than we already have. Very interesting premise, though.

[@HotRod12667]

And the fact it could be misused to create basically slavery.

[@briwanderz]

well, it only created a reflection of sunlight about 3 miles wide, so, unless they made it like 20+ times bigger i don't think it would do much really, especially since i don't think they could have stabilized it with the rotation of the earth to well.

[@youmad7068]

@@HotRod12667 Lol man, l think you take that joke a little to seriously. Soviet Space Mirror was not meant to turn night into day so people could work, people can work at night ether-way, mirror was meant nearly extend the day period during winters for various benefits, it could light cities to reduce cost of electricity spent on urban lighting, it could light solar farms so electricity could be produced even during night time, it could be used to defrost plants during morning frost so that fruit and vegetable flowers are not destroyed inc-rising annual fruit and vegetable production....

[@HotRod12667]

@@youmad7068 LOL I was joking.

[@igorvasin6960]

@@HotRod12667 slavery and colonialism are the foundations of Western capitalism. and today, without seizing colonies in resource-rich countries and without dividing society into the poor who agree to work for food and the super rich who, for the sake of greater enrichment, are willing to pay for crimes against third countries.

[@cladinshadows7306]

BA, my dear friend, I didn’t get to watch this until now, and it had me at the end of my seat with the space race stuff. I’m a huge space nerd and love No Man’s Sky for this reason. The entire video is just one more banger for the list.

[@igorvasin6960]

It is worth adding that space stations were also successfully invented in the Soviet Union and modern modules for space stations are made based on Soviet technologies.

[@cindydott452]

If you clean off every trace of oil from a gun, it will function in space. The bullets provide their own oxidizer.

[@JarnoPeschier]

For some time a public transport company in the Dutch province of Noord-Holland operated a number of the mentioned Russian made hydrofoil boats on a regular service between IJmuiden (on the coast) and Amsterdam Central Station along the coastal canal. It was quite a ride; I've been on them. 👍🏻

[@youmad7068]

Should have mentioned Soyuz, the Soyuz program is the longest operational human spacecraft program in the history of space exploration and still ongoing. Soyuz 7 rocket and Soyuz Spacecraft were the only mean of human transportation to ISS for just about a decade, since last Space Shuttle flight in 2011 to first Space X crewed Dragon Spacecraft in 2020.

[@igorvasin6960]

It is worth adding that space stations were also successfully invented in the Soviet Union and modern modules for space stations are made based on Soviet technologies.

[@wachiraWM]

THIS was good, for the next video, do about the fails of NASA in space and ocean exploration.

[@bullettube9863]

And how many are there? Three men died in a launchpad fire, and they lost two space shuttles and their crews. When NASA makes mistakes they do not hide the mistake from the public. But Russia hides their mistakes the time! NASA does not do ocean exploration.

[@NenadTrajkovic]

26:36 We simply call them hydrobus in Yugoslavia,for river commute on Danube river

[@etelvinafernandes]

A space pistol? Nah, It's a sick as hell railgun that super works! - Uzi

[@pederschultz3283]

The ammunition for the laser gun was small glass vials filed with a mixture of magnesium and oxygen - that is, pretty much the same as an old-fashioned disposebal flash bulb.

[@redjazzjrSRM]

I really want to ride one of those rocket boats. One of the very few Soviet inventions I admire

[@yellowcatmonkey]

24:22 can sb pls decipher this one?🙏💖russian is my native tongue but i have no idea what was said in that recording

[@rizdaw304]

A fairly clear «Один, два, три, четыре, пять» followed by some distorted mumbling that was probably deliberately distorted beyond recognition. 🤐

[@JohnLynch-b7e]

22:57. We are all minutes away from suffocating, brother. It's why we breathe.

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

As now 77 I actually saw Sputnik pass my Danish road!! The Radio told us when and it passed as a bright dot!

[@Teeter-Scups]

Random comment here bc why not

[@Demonunderyorbed]

Yeah why not anyway bye

[@LeveretteJamesClifford1955]

The space station with a machine gun was a bad idea. Rapid firing would have knocked it out of orbit and it probably wouldn't slow down enough for the engine to counter the movement for quite stop.

[@MaxQ10001]

Nah, you just turn it around and fire the same amount of shots in the opposite direction 😊 Fun fact: The gun was stationary, so to aim, the impulse controls for the station were used to move the whole station so that the gun pointed at the target.

[@vr6swp]

The Soviets spent a lot of rubles to get the space shuttle plans. When NASA found out, they said if the USSR had covered the duplication and shipping cost, they could have had all the plans and drawings for free.

[@Yastamba]

So USA recovered everything? Nope they hasnt!

[@MiseurPompadour]

Their is no boat graveyard in Zaozyorsk....and the Raketa was retired many years ago in St Petersburg. 😮

[@bigruchir3361]

Make a video about Soviet downfall

[@marktorch9079]

I think one of the reasons why we retired our space shuttle was maintenance right. I think it was growing in difficulty after each mission, which ended up having to retire the shuttle, and for a time any ambition to conquer space flight. Anyway, not sure if NASA would of even considered using a Russian Built clone, but considered they shelved 3 of em, it seems like a missed opportunity. We should of bought the 3 Shuttles and continued the space missions. At least our astronauts wouldn't have to hitch hike on other nations missions until Elon comes around

[@TristanMckenna-f6i]

Also I think that they were retired because of the challenger explosion which left a dent in NASA

[@RyshusMojo1]

At 9:42 it should be noted that there are ruins on Earth, with spaceships in them.

[@jamesendsley2611]

The space shuttle helped build the space station.That's what it was designed for

[@Thomas-yw7zg]

While never fired to our knowledge, the Soviets had pistols for self defense just incase they came across a bear upon re entry

[@cindydott452]

I don't recall if they had guns, but American astronauts had survival kits in case they landed in jungles or something.

[@rayceeya8659]

By "Unachievable" with the N1 it's literal. THe Soace X heavy is trying to do the same thing right now and it's done it ONCE.

[@Herowebcomics]

A gun that uses light bulbs like bullets? That's a good idea!😊

[@SchmidKids-o6r]

Technically, any spacecraft can destroy any other spacecraft by crashing into it!

[@HotRod12667]

I would have to say the Raketa is the coolest usable Soviet invention.

[@RahulSingh-tf2bh]

The Moon Base one looks like it's straight out of a Sci-fi film

[@jonnyq680]

Kid, I've flown from one side of the galaxy to the other and I've seen a lot of strange stuff. It's all a bunch of simple tricks and nonsense.

[@赤ゲキ]

Some of these are live action Kerbal Space Program before Kerbal Space Program was made.

[@CentauriBros]

Znamya actually seems sick

[@ProAviationOfficial]

I want to buy that plushie! 😊

[@ayaanmalik7363]

Lelelel is a little bit soososos

[@ruisantos4520]

About the Buran was able (supposely ) ... to fly as an normal aircraft while in atmosfere

[@moose3177]

It would be cool to turn one of the river boats in to a floating house

[@Daniele_Segugio_B]

to say that the Buran was copied from the Shuttle is absolutely not correct.. you can say that it was almost the same in design (even if in many aspects they were different) because at that time that was the most appropriate aerodynamic shape for a cargo spacecraft, but in reality they were completely different. internally they were totally different

[@eviestarr1379]

I laughed out loud at the yo-yo liner. 23:03

[@jamesendsley2611]

You forget our space.Shuttle was a space plane just like those

[@frateranpvbail-shm6912]

8:55 they got it from the germans look up "Operation Paperclip"

[@myfavoritemartian1]

"Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda."

[@terryenglish7132]

The shuttles didn't land like an airplane, they landed like a glider

[@Poi664]

9:57 I wanna pet your mascot so bad

[@rswpt]

the buran was never 'stolen' from america, lol there is still 1 buran at a german museum.

[@JarnoPeschier]

That was actually a taxi and atmospheric test plane, with jet engines.

[@rswpt]

@@JarnoPeschier its actually a Buran, but without all the electronics and onboard computers, its only the shell.

[@JarnoPeschier]

@rswpt I know; I've visited it. As I've been in the cockpit of the Buran test article next to the Baikonur museum (next to the house where Gagarin slept the night before his flight).

[@thatotherguy7596]

The Soviet space program was sabotaged by their own political ambitions. They had some brilliant aerospace engineers.

[@DocumentaryTaste08]

Perfect 👍👍

[@Oblivionsurveyor]

The history of space is largely secret. Remember the X-20 ? It operated for a full year longer than the Gemini program. Pilots were trained to fly the craft and they had a craft built and ready to fly when they claimed the program was canceled. I am pretty sure it just went dark, it was never canceled.

[@wildman2023]

You have nice vids

[@gabbygabz3322]

What movie are these scenes been taken from?

[@MynameisDUmass]

Wouldn't be surprised sputnik is still up there

[@wsrichardson5796]

Nope. Sputnik 1 fell out of orbit and burned up after 3 months. "What happened to Sputnik wasn't unusual. In fact, this is what happens to most satellites if you launch them into low-Earth orbit and leave them there to fend for themselves. With each orbit that goes by, the satellite will swing by apogee, where it reaches its maximum distance from Earth's surface, followed by perigee, where it makes its closest approach to Earth... Such disaster is inevitable due to satellite drag, which is a way to quantify how much speed a satellite loses over time due to the atmospheric particles it runs into at high relative speeds. Any satellite in low-Earth orbit will have a lifespan ranging from a few months up to a few decades, but no longer than that." --Forbes

[@TrevorHarvey-yi9zl]

One of those looks a lot like SNCs dreamchaser.

[@Alysium_media]

The Buran is in a Museum in Germany

[@HaraldKlette]

Miror miror in the sky, we got a red sun in the sky. 💥

[@evgrafkolobov6351]

Yes. First, man into space, and then toilet paper in stores.

[@jonnyq680]

Kid, I've flown from one side of the galaxy to the other and I've seen a lot of strange stuff. It's all a bunch of simple tricks and nonsense.

[@lightlegion_]

Your content is exceptionally unique!

[@dinilsemitha4603]

They did a better job than copyright chinece

[@tobihaifisch7558]

10:52 A situation, that our infamous foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, can easily refer to... 😂

[@QuabynahDavis]

This video is interesting 🤔🤔. Who knew that space 🚀 could be the best place to send people into exile?

[@danytalloen]

"But, murica is still the only country to put people on the moon"...(rockets build by German engineers and scientists, completely designed in metric measurements)...

[@Chipt]

Lol)) 26:40 That rusty rocket Is from my hometown (Ternopil)

[@liviugabreanu-yo3fyo354]

Have you ever thought, how did the LUNAR ROVERS transport to the Moon? Do you have a movie about a rover from the spaceship?

[@wsrichardson5796]

The lunar rover was first used on Apollo 15... "The aluminum-framed rover had a three-part chassis that was hinged in the center so it could be folded up and transported in the lunar module on the way to the moon during the Apollo 15 mission... The chassis was hung in the lunar module quad 1 bay, with the underside of the chassis facing out. To deploy the vehicle, one astronaut would climb a ladder on the lunar module and release the rover... The second astronaut, on the ground, would use reels and tapes to slowly tilt it out. As it was let down, the rear wheels folded out and locked in place. Once the wheels touched the ground, the front of the rover could be unfolded, the wheels deployed, and the frame was lowered to the surface with pulleys." --USA Today

[@liviugabreanu-yo3fyo354]

Pictures or a movie?????

[@wsrichardson5796]

@@liviugabreanu-yo3fyo354 Image search for: "apollo 15 unpacking the rover". "The Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) in position for stowage on the outside of the LM" shows how it was folded and attached to the side of the landing stage.

[@atiscasno6817]

me in a second i time traveled:*dies*

[@ayaanmalik7363]

Yes 👍 is a little late for me to go to

[@zyphrumzypheny2631]

there are others that were recently stuck on the ISS

[@michaelhowell2326]

The Soviets have the only RECORDED weapon in space, except for the V2 rockets in WWII.

[@Oogabooga_heheheOogabooga_hehe]

V2 rockets are german after the doodlebugs also known as v1s

[@michaelhowell2326]

@Oogabooga_heheheOogabooga_hehe yeah, I know. So?

[@drayblesolomonstribulation3045]

HIND-D improvement. That's all the US wants to see... Call it a Lava excavator. 😂

[@ZaltnD]

The craziest inventions in human history, he always came from a time of crisis

[@user-kanji003]

This video is just... AMAZING!

[@adamberndt4190]

Why is there a boat on the thumbnail if this is about Soviet space projects?

[@Brightonpeter-o2t]

must love BE AMAZED😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@ISVventurestar1]

Raketa is still used in Lithuania 😊

[@TytusG]

you got your caliber facts mixed up about the spacegun pal

[@casspirmk6338]

Soviets has launched their “Sputnik” satellite but nobody knows why it was round shaped . Americans were given no-nonsense signal: ball shape was exactly size of plutonium sphere of atomic charge. So soviets warned: next time we can send a real nuclear rocket into space and drop it on US. Soviets have never been doing things without double meaning or purpose.

[@robshaw-hist-arch]

Its pronounced bur-AHN! Not BUR-in.

[@tobihaifisch7558]

You mean: comrade Raygunski!

[@alex777k]

One succes that would lead to a show-off marathon with a bunch of failure. Nothing changed till this date

[@Surfexid]

Great vid

[@tgunn2239]

Are comrade ray guns antitank pistols?

[@veryveryveryvery161]

Ну, поехали!

[@Jesse-zk9ge]

It's still kind of sad to me that we never get a space laser up there. And in a way it is kind of good that we didn't. But I would think it would help to have something up there to help deorbit old satellites and space junk. As well as push asteroids out of Earth's orbit.

[@youngjerry7538]

Big ❤ for beamazed

[@megunded]

the nr 23 on the almaz station was a 23 mm gun...not 14.2 and the rpm is 8-900 ....not 5000

[@akramadam1234]

7:38 AN-225....😔 now 2022 RIP.....😢

[@tsunade20031]

They say war is bad, for the most part, it is. In the race to beat the other guy, people would discover and invent the most deadly and awesomest stuff. Look at your phone's touch screen. It's been around son de the 1960s. Developed for radar. Most civilians didn't even know about it until early or mid-2000s. Yet some computers already had it years prior.

[@richardbruce5214]

Landed on Venus to officially plant the thick red Soviet pen15

[@mavadelo]

2:27 Are you a Joker? Don't you rather be known as a Gangster of Love?

[@jamesstanbridge2022]

....some people call him Maurice.....

[@wsrichardson5796]

@@jamesstanbridge2022 "Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah Some call me the gangster of love... Some people call me Maurice 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love..." --Steve Miller "What does 'pompatus' mean?... Nothing-- Steve just made it up. That's why some call him 'The Joker'". 😁

[@GameTribe_TV]

Yes....that's what "super sonic" means...

[@johnmitchell7914]

the cover picture is a boat

[@BrokePrepper]

Hahaha! A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... I wonder how many people got that one lol

[@kunkka5-bg4zw]

would anything change if the russians landed on the moon first?

[@CNS-s3g]

Good question

[@bullettube9863]

While America and NASA took the space race one step at a time, Russia tried to rush things and leap frog NASA. While America lost three astronauts in a capsule fire at the launch pad, Russia lost at least seven men mostly because they landed on land while American astronauts landed on water after practicing with unmanned capsules several times. Russia also almost lost cosmonaut Alexi because unlike America, they didn't test his suit in a vacuum chamber first.

[@Anonymeowser]

I learned so much from this. Absolutely fascinating