Delta Clipper Boostback Burn, a VTOL Rocket Before SpaceX

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DC-X, short for Delta Clipper or Delta Clipper Experimental, was an uncrewed prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit(SSTO) launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas in conjunction with the United States Department of Defense's Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) from 1991 to 1993. Starting 1994 until 1995, testing continued through funding of the US civil space agency NASA.
Built as a one-third-size scale prototype, the DC-X was never designed to achieve orbital altitudes or velocity, but instead to demonstrate the concept of vertical take off and landing.

[@Hazegrayart]

See Full Video at kzbin.info/www/bejne/fn7blKWKe7RngsU

[@rolflandale2565]

It would make a better land pod in destination way points to other planets, vs the other concept designs. Of a flap or belly stunt.

[@dmacncheeze]

its so fake it hurts

[@raw7279]

Yep.

[@joechan3388]

Chrysler made better Space craft than Delta Clipper. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZDCe4F9f9SaZqM

[@rolflandale2565]

@@joechan3388? Well. Crystler made a CGI model, nobody watch a real model take off, but their concept is also identical to myths/legendary ancient technology as flying castle's. "Mantra" single robust(☢) blast vs megalithic mass.

[@thudthud5423]

Yes, you DON'T need wings or an aerodynamic lifting body or downward thrust to provide lift!! You just need 3D rendering skills!

[@harveynermlinger1013]

Except this was for real way before Elon. They need to reopen this program. Iwas canceled when the prototype crashed after landing because one ove its landing legs failed.

[@harveynermlinger1013]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

[@thudthud5423]

@@harveynermlinger1013 You do realize that this footage is CGI, don't you. I've seen the real Delta Clipper. It stayed upright because the only lift it got was from its rockets. It couldn't tilt over and fly horizontally.

[@smokeyjayshouse]

​​@@thudthud5423 I hope you understand that even tho this footage is cgi. It's actually a rendering of the dcx project that happened in 1994 that actually tested and worked out vtol rockets. Without this projects successful tests, telemetry, and gained industry knowledge elon would have never been able to make SpaceX work. He would never have had the cheat sheet that allowed him to do this after his first 3 complete failures. Even at his highest he wouldn't have had the money to work out vtol today.

[@thudthud5423]

@@smokeyjayshouse Sure. But what I'm talking about is how ridiculous this CGI is. It's unrealistic. Question: how would this vehicle maintain lift while 90 degrees off of vertical? In real life, this vehicle's only possible means of staying aloft is its rockets. If it were to tilt over it would crash.

[@ValmerKill]

Когда ты пропустил в школе уроки физики, то любые чудеса кажутся реальностью

[@user-hs4tw9uk7k]

Согласен. Но они летают причем 15 шт.

[@Gen_X_TurdCutter]

When you live in pathetic country like Russia, you think CGI is real Life.😂

[@magnetacyan5032]

It's a real rocket. Someone recreated it because there's old footage of it and it's blurry.

[@Gen_X_TurdCutter]

@@magnetacyan5032 😂😂🤦

[@Swatoslaw]

Действительно настолько жалкой, что : 1.бомжи на центральных улицах города 2.палаточные городки на центральных улицах 3.существуют районы Где даже копы не появляются 4.черные заставляют вас извинятся на коленях? 😂 Это при том, что их же вожди и цари в рабство продавали англичанам 😂 5.Коренной народ (Индейцы) находятся в резервациях тоесть концлагерях. ​@@Gen_X_TurdCutterэто можно очень долго продолжать 😂. Так что молчал бы уже.

[@leightonwestbury92]

Love how it can change orientation with no Vernier rockets or thrusters

[@MichaelJohnson-mh7mp]

Ditto!

[@user-jo7ec3we5w]

Он ещё и задним ходом может. Сейчас отрабатывают режим "бочком-бочком".

[@L33tSkE3t]

Or RCS, I don’t think it even vectored the exhaust with gimbals. I guess you really can do anything with CGI lol

[@lazarus2691]

Differential throttle. There are four engines, so by adjusting the thrust on each you can tilt in any direction. Throttle the 'North' engine down and the rocket will tip to the north. Throttle down both the 'South' and 'East' engines at the same time and it tilts south-east. Etc, etc. The only thing it couldn't do was rotate clockwise or anticlockwise - the real DCX had thrusters for that.

[@GODSTEVE_1]

Bruh, you are one of those, didn't you know that there is something called ✨MAGIC✨ (thid comme is a joke)

[@DrOne-sw6oz]

Excellen work, graphicists and animators made a huge effort. Bravo

[@k2midnight928]

This is absolutely real, it's called the Delta Clipper. McDonnell Douglas built and designed this in the 90's . The program was canceled after one booster failure in white sands in New Mexico. The real reason was that after many successful launches and test runs, NASA who held the contract, realized it took only 6 people to launch the DC and about 20 to maintain it vs. the 11 thousand people that it took for the space shuttle was like voting yourself out of a job.

[@channelsandy]

The Delta clipper was SpaceX 20 years before SpaceX

[@BradPowar]

Such a stupid reason to cancel an advancement in tech

[@jermonken]

Absolutely real, this was years ago dude. look it up …

[@user-hm1ek2kk2r]

Полгодосовать за увольнение, они что ваш хлеб отбирают. Таких как на работу не брать вообще

[@brianclark17]

Atari coming out with a new "Asteroids" game?!

[@gregoryholmes3514]

Yes that's right. I used to play "astroids" at Stop n Go before school in the 80's.

[@andreyryabov5060]

Compact cassette flash memory ))

[@johnkleivo856]

@@andreyryabov5060Atari 600 XL here

[@geesterfunk]

Lunar lander

[@Hainguyen87]

It's a Wonkavator. An elevator can only go up and down, but the Wonkavator can go sideways and slantways and longways and backways...

[@jamesgarvey8402]

Best answer!! 🎉

[@rosaavila4842]

gente fs

[@jackasschicken5922]

You win! Everyone can stop trying to type the best comment now. Well done!

[@billweltzer4021]

Now that’s funny!!

[@Jhoffa22_]

The Snozzberries taste like Snozzberries also...💯

[@YoddhaWarrior]

The rocket has supernatural powers. Lifted itself up without wings or side thursters. 😮

[@samterceman1457]

Elon Musk is our modern day Flash Gordon

[@redbovine]

No Kerbals we’re hurt in the making of this video.

[@MrGraywolves]

It is inspiring me to hurt a few and learn KOS once and for all ..lol

[@big1boston]

Russian Russian girls wooAahaoahawwoooahwooahwooah.

[@user-77777..]

Это что за мультик😂 Как Американцы на луну слетали😂

[@user-nz5yl7wc3u]

Того

[@user-xd4ky8wg1v]

@@user-77777.. это верно ... мировая чмошляндия теперь охмуряет всех мультиками ...тобишь кампутерной графикой ...это новый опиум для народа

[@user-cy2mj9dp2b]

Отличная графика!Прям как по настоящему.

[@guywebster8018]

Awe look... Jealousy.. 😂😂😂

[@jakeroark7704]

20 plus years ago that was high tech but not today see SpaceX wasn't the first self landing rocket America had them for awhile now long before Elon musk.

[@user-kk1zq1gh1f]

​@@guywebster8018Отклонение реактивных струй 😅😂

[@tonnytn3094]

@@user-kk1zq1gh1f а что такого в этом? Обычное дело kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3eWhWmlh99pgMk

[@BoycottChinaa]

Eta pravda

[@wan4770]

This is how UFO is evolved. This is the process becoming rocket to ufo.

[@roslyntaber9580]

Delta clipper with pink in the Sky is so beautiful Dwayne chéri ...

[@ultralaggerREV1]

Imagine being a U.S. farmer in the 60s chilling outside with a BBQ, and you suddenly notice a pyramid fly pass you

[@danriches7328]

See, Stargate and Star Trek are real, they just haven't happened yet lol!!

[@matthewanderson3631]

All these god damn aliens and their spaceships 😂

[@Mike1974P]

🤣

[@VincentNajger1]

It was from the 90s

[@slappyclappy7781]

Damn it Wilma it was a flying peice of cheese I'm tellin ya

[@stevenmcneal6605]

A really great Program I helped to build. It was heartbreaking to see all of that discontinued.

[@adamgatz3115]

Discontinued? If favor of something more advanced?

[@stevenmcneal6605]

@@adamgatz3115 No unfortunately, just shut down. Pete Conrad was the one flying the DC-X remotely, so very cool! NASA really used this as a big PR event to bolster their image and MDC didn’t see any big financial returns to evolve the concept. This all was way before SpaceX ever existed. I love what they’ve done with the reusable boosters of F9. All that could have been done so much sooner.

[@phoenixrising4073]

@@stevenmcneal6605 as I understand it, Space X simply picked up where this program left off, right? Standing on the shoulders of giants?

[@stevenmcneal6605]

@@phoenixrising4073 Well Elon wasn’t shy about using our people from our Delta Launch Vehicle Programs to do these things. I don’t blame him whatsoever, he really leveraged that talent to accomplish what nobody has done before. I think it’s ruly awesome and incredibly beneficial what he’s done. Our mindest overall on our Launch Vehicle Programs was to be risk averse and to let nothing stand in the way of Mission Success Focus, while Elon wanted to chase ever improving designs and optimization and that comes with added risk. The added risk was outside our Mission Success business model. I had a great deal of responsibility in the improvement regard and came across this dynamic with regularity. When that first F9 booster landed it’s was a world changing point of inflection and SpaceX has never looked back.

[@ar-sithf.austin3744]

Alllll bogus tech we have much higher capabilities than any of this anyway. The idea we don't today is all but disproven and ludicrous. The former Lockheed Skunkworks director said, "we have everything they have on Star Trek and more". There's plenty of interviews with those who've worked on parts of everything imaginable we supposedly "don't possess and is science fiction". All this stuff is nothing but a joke and colossal waste of money, time and resources we use and hide to funnel into the real things. Think they couldn't build this simple nonsense before Space X? Give me a break. Total smokescreen garbage. Thousands of military eyewitnesses, personnel and then hundreds of thousands of civilians who've seen or been or worked on all this "UFO, USO, UAF, whatever" spacecraft.

[@bricesuire5072]

Just have a gyro on it that keeps itself stable. Like rc helicopter especially 3d ones. You see it with spektrum a lot. The servos are controlled by a computer that knows it’s orientation and keeps the swashplate in place to have a consistent hover. Have the same thing, use big servos to move the jet engines to keep stable flight. We’ve been doing it on a micro scale for a long time.

[@GODSTEVE_1]

Boy that ain't a plane, there is something called ✨GRAVITY✨ that pulls even those down

[@BPJJohn]

The unloved, misunderstood clever little Rocket that could.

[@k.santoshrao6043]

Yes ur right

[@ryanfallon]

I think I can I think I can I think I can

[@demukazz]

Yeah, looked very CGI'ish somehow. Was waiting to see touchdown, cas there is no supercomputer capable of convincingly replicating it's visuals

[@geraldackerer2844]

"Modern"version of an ancient technology...🚀🛸

[@Mightiflier]

@@ryanfallonlittle blue train… I knew I could I knew I could Knew I could…If so, kinda dates us. 🙂

[@NickellessCageless]

"Where we're going, we don't need wings..."

[@donniekebsch5304]

U don’t need wings in outer space only if you have gravity in the atmosphere our new planets but you can have roll out wings that coming back to earth but way eons got it set up you don’t need wings you just come in and land on right side up like he’s been showing everybody so check your facts brother and have a good weekend. Peace out.

[@jeovahdecastrosouzasouza3497]

VERDADE, NOSSA ASA É A DO NOSSO DEUS AHAYAH YAHUAH TZEAVAOT ULSHADAY ADONAY O ALTÍSSIMO. E ISTO AI ESSE TRECO SE TORNA menos ➖️ de NADA . HALELUYAH

[@TheStunnerFTW]

To the grave😂

[@mnice59]

​​@@donniekebsch5304 Good comedy is much more sutle than that. Telling by the lack of comments and the abundance of likes I think they meant that the leadership is sending us straight to hell ie since were not going the right direction we wont need any wings for heaven, donnie.

[@scoodeles]

Do people not realize that quote is from back to the future 😅

[@aroulmourougan]

Inching towards ancient rocket systems in India, this shape resemble "VIMANA" as it described in many inscriptions. Many temples in India has this shape.

[@waynehall9939]

Yes! Didn't they have to circle the vehicle several times before entering it?

[@miguelcadete2495]

This reminds me of the thunder birds back in the 70s😂

[@Cleatus546]

I don't know why but that Thunderbirds series used to seem kind of creepy/scary to me back then. 🤣🤣🤣

[@miguelcadete2495]

@@Cleatus546 back them, still now lol

[@Cleatus546]

@@miguelcadete2495 WATCH OUT!

[@Cleatus546]

👉🚀 🏃💨 RUN!

[@godwinsboom]

Lol uses the same physics I guess😂

[@kvszt]

При создании этого ролика ни один Кербал не пострадал 😊

[@ArmeniaYerevanEurope-85]

💪🏼🇺🇸💪🏼

[@user-xy9cp1pw1b]

Вот-вот именно так и называется, эта зал...па. Как ты написал? Кербал🤣👍в точку. 🤣🤣🤣

[@urenmingesske8010]

Кто?

[@Efim.R]

А долго ракета на верёвке болталась 😂, и сразу вопрос и где верху зацели🤔 🤣

[@dejankostov785]

​@@ArmeniaYerevanEurope-85 🇺🇸🤢🤮👎

[@Lost.soul24]

Aliens be looking from ther tick tac like “aww bless em”

[@user-qe6xi8pg3c]

Илон Маск :повелитель примусов!!! 😂😂😂

[@ichbin6959]

Классная графика. Горизонтально лететь без крыльев это только в РС играх.

[@user-ex5eh7eh2t]

Согласен. Очень похоже на графику.

[@user-fo4pu4nx4w]

Горизонтально, без крыльев, летает пуля!😊

[@go6poMup]

весь спейс икс - графика

[@abdulla2042]

Да да у вас все графика

[@abdulla2042]

​@@go6poMup скоро на батуте прыгать будете 🤣

[@DaviMiguelFigueiredoNeto]

Good animation

[@jasonhayward6965]

Regardless , this is the future shape. But much bigger. All it missing is lights that are green for go and red for stopped. This shape is what is used on the moon and earth. Some fine tuning but definitely on target.

[@dwightbrown7857]

The rocket your looking at was an experimental craft called the VTOL back in the 90's not only could it maneuver, it could land safely without exploding!!!

[@MushroomFleet]

must be why we are using them today

[@otterrivers3765]

It almost looks real. Good job.

[@letstalkaboutit9840]

It was real

[@otterrivers3765]

@@letstalkaboutit9840 nooooo......

[@Montytian]

@@letstalkaboutit9840 the real one is out of order long time ago

[@saytdiabloxsayt_family1925]

​@@letstalkaboutit9840no

[@dannomano2851]

The US government dabbled in this technology back in the 60s

[@whosestone]

Anyone remember when they did a huge article on this in RCM? About driving a truck with the model on the hood? Yeah that was over 20 years ago.

[@ristube3319]

Anyone else have a “Delta Flyer” flashback besides me?

[@nolandt1113]

This delta clipper was a McDonnell Douglas experiment. I as working there in the 90's. This shows more than it did but it did it take off and land. Before Space-X's time.

[@jahvincikingdamani4718]

THANK YOU KINDLY FOR CLARIFICATION 😊

[@MarcoFariello]

Ma ricordo che il progetto fu accantonato perché la percentuale di fallimenti rimase alta, o almeno così ricordo io.

[@KuKu-oy2mn]

​@Marco Fariello 😅😅😊😊

[@KuKu-oy2mn]

😊😮😅😅​@@MarcoFariello

[@novtek]

Now you know where those engineers went and what they did with their knowledge.

[@Duffman19370]

SpaceX doesn't make too many claims to new technology, just that they're the first to do it on such a massive scale.

[@edwardtobiasen3386]

On top of that, the Delta Clipper was only a prototype and never was intended to go to outer space. So you can not even call it a space craft. LoL

[@darmayuda4157]

It Looks more stable than space x

[@mr.frogster4398]

@@darmayuda4157 it because it ain’t even a real video the actual rocket never really did much more then hover off the ground which I think was all it was intended for it was more of a proof of concept that a vtol rocket could work on earth

[@ahmadhafis4]

As Elon musk rightly said, rocket engine design is difficult, but to scale up manufacturing is 100 times more difficult....

[@sosig8332]

They've always just said they are innovators, many came before and they improve on the ideas, that's what businesses should be doing instead of stagnating and just copying eachother without adding anything new.

[@Bleachsoul13]

I wish the original video was in higher definition, but this animation is nice. Nice how the prototype got it on the first try, sad that there wasn't enough interest/funding in it to further develop the concept at the time.

[@reboundish]

Pretty cool!

[@DirtyYouTube]

Красивая графика !) ждём игры с такой графикой

[@user-bw3rr5oh1m]

Аллах велик, наступить день с автомомата пуля не вылетить.

[@Kilo-Mike]

I remember seeing these testing in New Mexico in the 90s

[@haroldishoy2113]

There is at least one rocket, or a mock-up of this rocket at the airport museum in Mojave California. It was there in mid 2015 when I saw it.

[@NilsFerry]

Is this real, not cgi? I can't tell anymore.

[@haroldishoy2113]

@@NilsFerry It is real, just no one recognized the need for it at the time and we still had the space shuttle

[@patrickcamp5885]

​@@haroldishoy2113Why bother saving money. Government has an endless supply

[@haroldishoy2113]

@@patrickcamp5885 And where do

[@rays14ful]

It was called DCXA. It was made by McDonell Douglas.

[@theneonfox3414]

The body basically uses air cushions That its created thru its forward thrust and then uses changeable thrust output ratios to control it that’s bloody brilliant whoever came up with that.

[@lamarceci]

Bela montagem! Um fundo de céu azul, controle remoto e jato de foguinho pra impressionar!

[@aliengenius5555]

That's exactly how Google Maps is guiding me nowadays...

[@Ladyscharm]

😄😂🤣😂😄😄😂🤣🤣

[@davidwemyss7303]

Nice rendering, the real ships were amazing. I witnessed the DCX & Delta Clipper in flight, those forever showed that aero-space bound vessels could ingress, egress, sub-orbit maneuver, no need to dispose, just reuse. No longer sci-fi imaginations, REAL...

[@peresmeshnikable]

С неуправляемым вектором тяги это невозможно

[@user-ps1nu8im2y]

Если пепелац с кц, то можно.

[@mnhlahmad2054]

​@@user-ps1nu8im2y ثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثقثثقثثثثثثثثث

[@ArmeniaYerevanEurope-85]

💪🏼🇺🇸💪🏼

[@StasCybertronik]

Там четыре независимых сопла.

[@Ed0E]

​@@StasCybertronik и как это повлиять должно) хоть 6 управляемых. Физику не кто не отменял.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

NOT a "Boost Back Burn" - this was a DC-X hover and manuver test.

[@ahmadhafis4]

Wow, the controls it had, graceful 👍

[@jonathanbeattie3410]

It’s CGI, the test was in 1995. This is a very well made vid to show what it could have been.

[@mr.frogster4398]

Actual thing did do much more then hover a bit off the ground

[@toygunreloader]

Watch the full video, the rocket was real but this is CGI. You can see the transition from gainy 3:4 footage to 4K 16:19 footage which is what you're watching

[@FourthRoot]

Humans controlled it remotely.

[@jonathanbeattie3410]

@@FourthRoot I’m sure they did, but this footage isn’t real. It’s a CGI creation of what it could have been

[@TrainTruck]

They really should of kept this, it was really awesome looking technology and to really show off how advanced NASA was at during that time line this was given to them.

[@JFrazer4303]

It was not NASA, it was the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization BMDO, who contracted McDonnell-Douglas to build it. It took 6 months and cost ~$60 million. Once it succeeded and news of it got out, the White House gave the ship to NASA, cut the BMDO funding, and rammed through legislation forbidding anybody but NASA from studying launch technology. NASA operated it until it crashed and then offered a contract to study SSTO Technology: They ignored the McD proposed DC-Y, and gave the contract to Lock-Mart as their X-33. The X-33 spent several billion, over a decade, and never produced a single piece of static bench-testing hardware of a single piece of any of the radical technology it required. Thus killing any interest in landing rockets or SSTO demonstrators.

[@moonlalune8003]

Nice info John Frazer, and to think the guys at tesla managed to do a budget yet effective version.

[@MessereVoland]

​@@JFrazer4303 а потом нам в России рассказывают, что только наше правительство разворовывает бюджет страны 😄

[@greggv8]

@@JFrazer4303 they gave up an operational rocket for a bunch of artists renderings. By the time X-33 was canceled they had a bunch of artists renderings, part of a linear aerospike engine nozzle, and the knowledge that it wasn't yet possible to build cryogenic fuel and oxidizer tanks in shapes other than spheres or cylinders with hemispherical ends.

[@JoeOvercoat]

@@moonlalune8003 no they simply reproduced the failure that was the grasshopper. landing on fuel is a bad idea.

[@alvinwoods639]

A ship far ahead of its time.

[@187mrsmith]

If technology is more sophisticated and better today than it was back in the 60s I still don't understand how we haven't gone back to the moon yet

[@Techno_Bunny433]

Money

[@user-ox7ym9tn7g]

Никто не был на луне вот и все

[@beatlejuice13]

The most efficient burn I’ve seen lol

[@jameskurien7996]

The tesearch effort to develop this ended when the hydraulic line to extend one of the landing legs was left unattached causing the vehicle tip over & explode on landing.

[@mikebar42]

Did that really happen?... That would be a dumb mistake and not the best reason to defund the program..

[@JoeyMoreland]

I would say that the development process which resulted in being heavily dependent on a single spacecraft was what brought development to an end. The tip over and explosion should have been ok

[@SuperPhunThyme9]

​​@@mikebar42 that's why NASA is so impotent, they do that same thing all the time. One single mishap on a prototype, and it's canned. Space X is so successful because they aren't scared to make mistakes-which are going to happen in prototyping no matter what you do

[@alokinzna]

I'm sure they could've invented many reasons to make it obscenely expensive .

[@JFrazer4303]

No, it ended when the White House forced them to give the ship to NASA instead of being kept by the BMDO itself who had contracted for it to be built. They cut the BMDO funding, passed legislation forbidding anybody but NASA from studying launch technology. When NASA put out offers for a contract to do further study of SSTO technology, they ignored the McDonnell DC-Y follow on, and gave the contract as pure graft and fraud to Lock-Mart for what became the X-33. McD built the DC-X in 6 months for ~$60 million. The X-33 was cut after a decade or so, a few billion $, and never producing a single static bench-test article of any of the radical technology that it required.

[@SuperJC65]

They were on the right track.

[@LeeSmith-dx7gg]

Great graphics, looks almost realistic

[@RanardCorbeau]

Even though the DC-X was just a subscale prototype, a full-sized Delta Clipper would still cost less to build than it costs to launch the Space Shuttle once. The original DC-X was Manufactured by McDonnel-Douglas and was completed in 21 (1991-1993) months by a team of 100 people, and cost a grand total of $60 million. $60,000,000 in 1991 is equivalent in purchasing power to to about $138,105,585.31 today, 2023, an increase of $78,105,585.31 over 33 years. All that was accomplished with off the shelf parts.😮

[@BlyGuy]

Some serious thrust vectoring there.

[@MarineScoutSniper]

You mean CGI Vectoring

[@BlyGuy]

@@MarineScoutSniper ohh haha, I thought it looked a little CGI'y, but still figured it was real.

[@ticketforlife2103]

​@@BlyGuy it is real bro, don't listen to this goon. You can literally google it...

[@krasin888]

Управляемость, даже больше подойдет размашистость векторения радует, ранее не видел такого отклонения вектора тяги..

[@wan4770]

This is the way Ufo is evolved. It’s the process becoming rocket to ufo

[@WasatchWind]

It's a cool rocket but I hate when people point to this thing and audaciously claim that SpaceX barely had to develop anything to make the Falcon 9 reusable.

[@Spaceguy-nineteensixtynine]

Well this isn’t anything like Falcon 9 when it comes down to it. 4 engines, able to hover, goes up not even that high and then lands. Compare this to falcon nine with 9 engines, can’t hover so it has to suicide burn, goes all the way to space and back. Coupled with all of this is the fact that this was a NASA affiliated project and Falcon 9 was all inhouse.

[@aaron4820]

Or how in many parts of the internet Musk just bought Tesla, didn't even start it.

[@tylerjohn4607]

SpaceX had to put a lot of work into making it for sure, but they and their fanbase do themselves no favor by failing to mention that this DC-X software and experience was critical for their programs, that the Merlin engines are NOT clean sheet designs as claimed but actually modernized Apollo LEM engines, etc. What they have done has been excellent and extraordinary, but would not have been possible without the tech that was gifted to them by NASA.

[@WasatchWind]

@@tylerjohn4607 lol are fans of SpaceX required to mention this rocket every time we mention reusing boosters is cool? What I come down to is that they _did_ do something, because someone else did not do it first.

[@richlo8887]

Well.... SpaceX sure didn't take any cues from this worthless 💩! 🤣

[@SummerCrowfpv]

I just remember this thing looking cool then crashing and being forgotten

[@leestewart72]

That's what separates SpaceX from NASA. SpaceX learns from mistakes, while NASA runs from them.

[@VanderlyndenJengold]

@@leestewart72 Tell that to the Moon.

[@leestewart72]

@@VanderlyndenJengold The last moon landing was 51 years ago. How long is NASA going to cling to past glories?

[@JFrazer4303]

@@leestewart72 NASA didn't make this. It was built for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, and then after succeeding, the government cut the BMDO funding and gave the ship to NASDA and rammed through legislation forbidding anybody but NASA from studying it. NASA then gave a contract to Lock-Mart for the X-33 fiasco of graft & fraud, which killed interest in landing rockets or SSTO for another generation.

[@paulznack2379]

В СССР в 80-х такое уже было. Пепелац называется. Летал на Гравицапе, которую за кацэ покупали.

[@foetaltreborus2017]

" You,ll never get the Razorback "

[@caiblack8652]

Loved the Delta Clipper

[@tomclayton6875]

Pete Conrad, (yes THAT Pete Conrad) was a part of this program after he retired from NASA.

[@BharathKumarThota-eg8jc]

Good animated work

[@romanzelgatas]

Cool, I saw something like this in black in the early 80's before the power went out and I woke up to the clocks all flashing...

[@slehernik]

Could anyone explain this comment to me? Is it a reference to a movie?

[@romanzelgatas]

@@slehernik it was not from a movie. It was my experience in the 80's seeing a vtol all black aircraft maneuver over the river at low altitude. Then blacking out to flashing clocks, not knowing how long I was out. Cuz we didn't have Wi-Fi or smart phones in the 80's to tell us the time after a power outage

[@TheRealUnknown01]

​@@romanzelgatas no, mostlikey you had a watch,that didn't run on electricity :P I know I did

[@MrChazz10]

​@ThaRealUnknown haha got him with that one eh.

[@TheDuckAndRogerTheHorse]

I was gutted when they didn’t go forward with the Delta clipper

[@newmanattack]

It was for the better. MD would've had bloated and wasteful government contracts, like they do with the rest of their product line. Space needed someone like Musk to come along and shake the tree.

[@PRH123]

I think it was only a proof of concept test vehicle, it wasn't supposed to go into production.

[@JFrazer4303]

@@newmanattack McD built this in 6 months for $60 million. NASA gave the follow-on contract to Lock-Mart for theX-33 which spent a few billion over more than a decade and never produced a single piece of thy radical technology it required.

[@joel_rigby]

Plan was to make up followup version by mcdonald douglas but when Nasa took over they had a favorite, Lockheeds Venture Star and they cancelled it in favour of that. Venture star had worse issues in the end. I always thought that was short sighted and they should have instead back-burnered the project for a few years. The venturestar failed due to requiring a (at the time) to high of tech fuel tank system. It would have been interesting in that it used an aerospace engine and a innovative metallic thermal protection system .

[@phoenixrising4073]

@@newmanattack you speak of MD and bloat but then as realize the government allocated much more money to Lockheed, the absolute all-time reigning champion of bloat. My stomach just grew 4 inches by simply mentioning Lockheed Martin.

[@Stallnaa_Krusa]

Как будто из фильма "Кин-дза-дза" - космический корабль "Пепелац"!😮😊

[@user-4an1va9le71]

Так оно и есть, только это - новая модель. А мотает его так сильно от того, что чатлане за штурвалом сидят в зюзю пьяные... Общение с пацаками с Земли даром не проходит. Одним словом, колокольчик в нос и КУ два раза. 🤣🤣🤣

[@denniskreusel1456]

SUCH A LACK OF INTELLIGENCE

[@user76239]

Absolutely astounding work ladies and gentlemen

[@fn3080]

Computer software has come a super long way since I was a kid

[@spacemonkey200]

​@@joel_rigby If you say so. 🤣🤣🤣

[@victorSarramalho]

Not just software but hardware ! Without electronic, nothing can fly today ...!

[@delegation5971]

This thing is so maneuverable!

[@steventoal6594]

I recall back in the 80s .they were developing this system it was called the XM-1 .saw it on like 60 minutes it was amazing..sadly apon landing it one of it's test flights it crashed when one of the four landing legs failed to fully extend downward it then just fell over and exploded.

[@BibleTumper]

Like something out of a sci-fi movie.

[@extremejustin4611]

I agree. What is it used for?

[@BibleTumper]

@@extremejustin4611 Most times reality mimics fantasy, and every conceivable imagined storyline of science fiction novels ever printed on paper, or filmed on screen. Humans are scifi, we live in a scifi world of demons and monsters, sometimes human and sometimes otherworldly.

[@brandonstringfellow1041]

It is exactly like something from a sci-fi movie, seeing as it is just a render.

[@mike5585]

​@@brandonstringfellow1041🤣

[@mike5585]

My dumbass thought it was real at first too

[@inspectorgadget346]

Looks like a Dustbuster!

[@xxx-xxx-xx-xxxx]

Angular thrust, easy to understand.

[@libomaliboma1111]

That's it, I want to go to space with that specific rocket. 😳😳

[@user-lw9tg6pi5s]

Фантастика!

[@khantroll7351]

Great sound effects

[@johnbishop7283]

1 helluva Guidance System.

[@roslyntaber9580]

Dwayne chéri tu seras toujours le plus merveilleux mon amour ...

[@freelunatwo]

This brings back memories.

[@goawayihavecommentstomake1488]

If KSP has taught me anything, that only has about 50 secs worth of burn and 20 secs less than you’ll need for a safe landing

[@svennoren9047]

The Delta Clipper Advanced flew for 142 seconds, reaching a height of 10 000 feet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X#Flight_testing

[@NoBaconForYou]

​@@svennoren9047 it's still useless. SSTO is utterly useless when launching from Earth. SSTO will find a market when there are factories on the moon.

[@joaohenriqueneuhaus2023]

Yep, blue origin is also flying since the last decade, since now 3D renders apparently transport cargo to low earth orbit

[@VectorCrafty]

Nonweiler stated “there is nothing more efficient to generate lift in an atmosphere than a wing.” VTVL systems have the problem of criticality from the moment they cease contact with the ground, and in every case any small error will be catastrophic, there are no wings for an unpowered abort. A HTHL spaceplane operating as an airliner would take more to orbit than any rocket due to the simple fact that any VTVL system requires additional fuel for liftoff, backburn, and landing that subtracts from payload capacity..

[@denny1111]

Now I understand some Vimana shapes more.

[@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu]

That's what I was thinking. Flying pyramid. Now if it was just made from kevlar reinforced concrete it would be indestructible like the old Vimana.

[@dt9233]

Now that is really a great new edition... Especially for a new released video... :)

[@k.t.5405]

NASA needs to dust off those DELTA blueprints...

[@johnkapel2128]

That's the first flying Church steeple that I've ever seen😮

[@kobrakann7345]

I don't see any fins nor any gas venting.. does anyone know how it corrected itself, or was it just changing the vector angle on the nozzles to right itself?? Anyone know?

[@michaelc4060]

Either CGI or a hidden tech. They are using spaceX to build up a false trail of tech advances so when you see the real deal you won’t get pissed at the government for hiding it for all these years and wasting billions on bullshit rockets. 🤔

[@user-hv3dx5pv2m]

بل ريموت

[@johnlyle3605]

Weiner von Braun would have been ecstatic to see the technology that runs the engineering and software that didn't exist to run the hardware. He did it mechanically with gyros

[@michaelvd2467]

Weiner lol, von Braun was a genius

[@alamos8]

​​@@michaelvd2467 Yes, he was the Tony Stark of rockets

[@bigbossimmotal]

If we had continued to listen to Von Braun, we would have a well established settlement on the moon and Mars by now, and be eyeballing our next off world colonies. To follow his direction right up into the Gemini program and then drop him completely before the Apollo missions was complete ignorance at best.

[@davayethagreat9546]

Go read ol boys headstone too talks about flat earth🤔

[@shawnburford1800]

@@bigbossimmotal we do have well established bases, it’s not known to the masses.

[@SkyfalconTin]

They traded alien techs for human sacrifice

[@wakeup1076]

It looks as real as that red car is space.😂😂

[@daveycooper4336]

90s USA had the 2020s planned

[@4KI75E4NN]

So true

[@klauscampagnoli198]

Literally

[@Patchuchan]

They were hopping the have this flying in to orbit by the late 90s early 2000s but funding got cut.

[@user-zs2xe7bi7r]

Пепелац за гравицапой полетел!)) Кто понял тот понял🙃

[@maxolid]

Да раза ку и красные штаны) Почему-то тоже сразу пришло на ум)))

[@user-by9hb1wq8k]

Наш то росскосмосс в ахулиард раз лучше.😊

[@AssiyaIce]

@@user-by9hb1wq8k 😂😂😂

[@user-xn4xe7gw3d]

Наш Пепелац на Батуте с астронавтом Рогознимым полетит на Уране !!! Дааа .......

[@danielash20]

Sweeping the ball falls on the spot and fantastic players in the game of a billion dollars in the world and how sweet it is.

[@rickgolder6818]

Saw this one in discovery channel way back. This could be a game changer, but sadly was cancelled

[@seddysed930]

Looks like cgi

[@mr.reality1611]

it is, this guy created vfx about space vehicles and others things, check him

[@spacemonkey200]

It is cgi !!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@ClutchCobraKID1]

Interesting gonna have to research this

[@user-ks7dc5oy1g]

The Age of the Jetsons is upon us, folks

[@edwarde8524]

I would love to seen that in person

[@keithhoward4069]

A real shame NASA didn't continue with the SST program

[@dakotasunday8996]

It’s not real …

[@keithhoward4069]

@@dakotasunday8996 I am old enough to remember when they really were testing these. One of them crashed and burned.

[@dakotasunday8996]

@@keithhoward4069 lol