The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar Spaceplane Launching on a Titan IIIC concept

The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including aerial reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and as a space interceptor to sabotage enemy satellites.

[@MentorAnimations]

That transition from real footage to animation was amazing

[@bazoo513]

Not to mention _simulated_ real footage.

[@bosef9727]

I knew it was coming and it still got me

[@ablewindsor1459]

The use of a real X-20 landing at the Edwards base complex was the perfect topping for a ending!

[@theyounghistorian5791]

I agree

[@arro_rockets]

I was just about to comment the EXACT same thing

[@gavinmccraw4969]

Haze deserves at least 2 million subs by now. There is NO other space flight animator of this caliber, than this guy. Stunning work as always, keep it up.

[@owenrichards1418]

There is Fragomatik, who is really good. Check out his channel. He hasn't posted anything in a few months though. Nobody really comes close to Hazegrayart though.

[@beloved_lover]

If there would be some information added in terms of commentary or whatever to give us something else than nice renderings to look at, sure why wouldn't there be more subscribers.

[@caletherault3049]

I agree! His animations are incredible!!

[@Whistleblr]

Heres a few seconds of mine .kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWi1eYOkpdN6oMU

[@arthurlunar7835]

@@owenrichards1418 i'll check it out.

[@Peter_Schluss-Mit-Lustig]

I'm still amazed everytime by how realistic all of the animations look

[@Patriotgal1]

LOL, you ought to see what the lads at CIA are doing these days.

[@Whistleblr]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gojblnl7mr6Ga9E I love making animation

[@odysseyvoyager2354]

The Transitions and ending with the National Emblem march were extremely nice touches!

[@msb3235]

That transition is so OooEmmGee! I bet 70% of the comments are about it..

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Not so wrong lol

[@SkyShips]

That's awesome as always)

[@raine8553]

oh hello :) yeah that was awesome, but that wasnt realized :(

[@artemplatov1982]

Sky found you mate

[@raine8553]

@@artemplatov1982 russians will understand)

[@alexaxel2953]

Скай, вот про такую ракету я бы посмотрел видео на твоём канале😉

[@ruspacesheep]

О, привет)

[@dougthebigdp314]

The heady days of the 60s when anything was possible until the budget and reality of cost came to pass.

[@bc1969214]

Just needed the Russians to have some success again like they did early on with Sputnik and the U.S. would have been pushed to top it.

[@dougthebigdp314]

@@bc1969214 Well, now we've got the Chinese and they're pretty darn serious

[@casuallatecomer7597]

@@dougthebigdp314 Yeah, I welcome any technological successes by any country that does space travel, since it inevitably encourages other countries to try to one-up them with their own tech. Like, space-race 2.0 man.

[@dougthebigdp314]

@Alpha Centauri It was gonna be hard to kill off the Space Shuttle, at the beginning, and not have a way to space while the USSR would have been thumbing their noses at us. As for SLS, please...the less said the better.

[@bc1969214]

@Alpha Centauri the shuttle was originally a small piece of a system with a space station as a launching point to bigger destinations. I believe it was 1985 as the first step with moon colonization completed then on to Mars.

[@CausticLemons7]

I was wondering where this was going when it started with the archive footage style. Then that transition absolutely blew me away! Great work.

[@isaquest134]

that transition was SUPER SMOOTH! Keep up the great work.

[@Mr.Fry31]

I love the Dyna Soar and the transition from real footage to animation is just awesome! Really well done!

[@cruzcontrol1504]

Really excellent job.You captured the qualities of the old NASA animations of the early 60's that i watched as a kid. Dyna-Soar was a big deal to us X-15 fans back then. Orbiting a fully controllable space plane seemed to make way more sense than the "spam can" capsule approach.The most amazing thing at the time was seeing over a billion dollars spent on something almost to the point of completion wasted.It would have been interesting to see the trajectory of the space program if there had been a Dyna-Soar, an MOL, and the expanded capacity Gemini capsules.

[@trespire]

Agreed. The Dyna-Soar could have flown. The only thing holding it back was material science, and they were making huge progress in that field. I'm hoping Dream Caser will live up to this legacy.

[@GareebScientist]

One of a kind work. Wish you did tutorials.

[@finger3215]

Didn't know you follow American space program too :) Apne ISRO ke RLV-TD ko Kerbal Space Program me replicate kar na !

[@mridulsingh4845]

Sir, big fan... 😂😂

[@rossshiels7744]

Such and underrated channel. Incredible!

[@ratlips4363]

My dad was Project Manager at Boeing back in the early 60s when this was a Top Secret project. He was project manager for all communications. He had just retired from the USAF and we moved from Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio to Seattle

[@xaps7499]

That cinematic screen widened effect is AMAZING 😯

[@montigobear]

the scratchy 'film print' at the end sold it for me. Another, 'gee I wish we had the balls to really do that' moment. Wonderful stuff, sir.

[@anthonyhunt701]

Haze, the transition from the ACTUAL Titan IIIC launch to yours, flawless!

[@lewismassie]

Man these only get better and better

[@djdood]

Love this!! One of my first mentors worked on the X-20 as a young man and had some very cool stories to tell. I've been fascinated by it ever since and it's very cool to see it brought to life, so well. The all-metal heat shield on the X-20 would have been a heck of a thing (and is an idea Space-X is resurrecting, over 50 years later). Really liked the transition from newsreel-looking film at the beginning and end of the video - really nests it in with the period look.

[@Surrenitie]

4:04 If i saw a screenshot of that beforehand i would have sweared that was a real picture Props man!

[@bradrtorgersen_videos]

Gorgeously done! Magnificent to see all these old, great space launch concepts realized in CGI form.

[@marcusapperley6456]

10/10 would buy tickets and popcorn for this movie

[@lonelyinterstellar2689]

Awesome Transition Awesome details Awesome Animation

[@fernandoqueirozpopovic7024]

This chanel is so damn underrated love the transition its so damn smooth and the aminations are getting better every time. Hope you have a awesome day

[@andie_pants]

Dude. That transition! Edit: Both of them. Well done.

[@linecraftman3907]

oh my god the ending made me genuinely smile! This is amazing! You definitely should dive into behind the scenes

[@johnbuchman4854]

Should have included the side boosters landing at the cape and the Titan's 1st stage landing on an autonomous drone ship...

[@odysseyvoyager2354]

@@johnbuchman4854 Reusability ain't everything chief, especially for the time.

[@johnbuchman4854]

@@odysseyvoyager2354 I fully realize Titan had no such capability. However, this was a "flight of fantasy" anyway, so why not toss in having Titan IIIC/Falcon Heavy capabilities into the mix? Sorry if you took me so literally! 😁

[@odysseyvoyager2354]

@@johnbuchman4854 Thats cool, I just don't think it'd make a lot of sense even as alternate history, especially for those solid boosters. Still fun to think about alternate options like parachute-recovery Solids and glide back core :P

[@johnbuchman4854]

@@odysseyvoyager2354 ...but now we're very close to having a much better launch system--for real.

[@chrisediger2061]

Oh wow, the transition from archive footage to CG was spot on! Very nice. Great video as always!

[@caletherault3049]

The closest we’ll get to the X-20 is whenever Sierra Nevada launches their Dream Chaser spaceplane.

[@Modestasgailius]

Planned for 2021 to be launched on a Vulcan Centaur

[@caletherault3049]

@@Modestasgailius Cool, can't wait to see it launch.

[@williamhowell9369]

Great Job! The Space Shuttle was the bloated Dyna-Soar ! Truly a Space Craft designed by the Pentagon and Congress.

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

STS was worse. No escape system. No clear mission. Worst possible mix of crew and cargo. Higher wing loading (I assume).

[@zenetle]

Incredible work . I remember my first time googling "dinosaur space plane " ...

[@AbnoCreations]

1:37 please consider atmospheric haze, Mr. Haze. All the atmosphere between the ground camera and that rocket would be noticeable.

[@trespire]

And some clouds

[@Thorr97]

Nicely done! Especially the blending of the old Titan launch footage with his modern day computer rendering. You've got an excellent artistic touch!

[@sebastian.su935]

The way it goes from the real film to the animation is super cool👍👍

[@Chris.Davies]

If only they had built it. I still have a newspaper clipping about the Dynasoar from my childhood.

[@teddy.d174]

I’m blown away every time I watch one of your videos. Im shocked you don’t have more subs by now. I hope everyone subscribes, likes and shares because this channel deserves so much more! The dyna-soar was way ahead of it’s time, I really enjoyed seeing this blast from the past, awesome content as usual...👍🏻👍🏻

[@40rtyp]

All your videos are just amazing!!! Literally so awesome to watch!!! Thank you for imagining Dynasoar.

[@PeterCut62]

I've met the Dyna-Soar test pilot at cape canaveral veteran space museum in 2017 while inauguring the rocket-model standing at the museum . A great moment.

[@MrHichammohsen1]

You truly are a great artist!

[@campFTW]

Hazegrayart went into the future or past recorded the video and came back to the present...😮😮 I mean his videos are soooooo realistic!!!😍😍 Someti es doesn't even look like an animation....🙂🙂😁 Good job bro.!

[@gabrielbennett5162]

Nice job! My grandfather, Vic Horton, worked with several of the Dyna Soar pilots out at Edwards, namely Milt Thompson, Bill Dana and Neil Armstrong. One minor quibble about your video, though: you show the forward cockpit windows throughout the flight, much like the Space Shuttle. On the actual X-20, the forward windows were to have been covered with a jettisonable heatshield / fairing throughout the mission, until just after reentry.

[@OriginalLictre]

That's an intriguing bit of operational information.

[@jeffvader811]

Loved the format you did here.

[@drewbrackett6798]

Awesome! I love the transition

[@reugeot9058]

Great job! I'm a big fan of the X-20 and you made it come to life!

[@fractalelf7760]

These are such a joy to watch and rewatch!

[@jameskrych7767]

You NEVER cease to amaze! Well done!

[@ralterdrake556]

That fly-by was totally a Thunderbird 2 sound, I love it.

[@jstrotha0975]

A masterpiece as usual. Keep up the great work.

[@olsonspeed]

Beautiful! The X-22 remains my favorite space plane, a huge loss for the US to cancel such a valuable project.

[@blackasp001]

Getting more out of the box, love it!

[@johnreynolds3428]

Your work is so uplifting in so many ways!

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

This channel is getting better and better but in the same time I really wonder how it is even possible

[@picknikbasket]

Awesome work, well done Hazegrayart!

[@amramjose]

A concept that was well ahead of its time. Great video.

[@Xeno056]

Now there's a spaceflight concept you never hear much about. Looks fabulous as usual Haze.

[@GPGPapercraftTX]

Oh yeah! The transition from archive rocks.

[@sasquatchishere7453]

Excellent job. Thank you. I really enjoyed it.

[@FIREBRAND38]

Brilliantly executed, even to the "scratches" at the end.

[@agtshaw]

That transition was incredible

[@Yogurt1701]

Excellent video. Loved the transition from grainy, 1960's cinefilm to HD. Well done! Subscribed!

[@tsr207]

Simply stunning ! as with all the work of this channel - it has an incredible attention to detail that is vastly superior to others. The Dyna Soar was a favourite of mine (having a Century 21 toy one in the sixties) . The soundtrack adds to the sense of reality. Excellent !

[@wpatrickw2012]

Another breathtakingly beautiful video.

[@finanzastronaut7071]

Amazing animation! Thanks!

[@Bugatti12563]

Great video, once again.

[@matzmatz4148]

Great Video

[@JohnIwaszko]

Beautifully done, you brought one of my favourites into life, seamless transition from where reality ended and a forgotten dream of what could have been into realistic visual reality. Thanks for this entertainment.

[@pegasusted2504]

Quality as per usual :~)

[@jaydee6414]

I didn't know Dyna-soar had skids for landing gear. Thanks for the insight, & the beautiful video.

[@jimwest3363]

Incredible work.

[@viniciusfilheiro2389]

This channel is amazing!!!

[@lspringerjones]

I don't know how you do it but your videos are superb. (I get real tired of the word awesome)

[@INeedMoreSpace]

love the open. you need more views!!

[@juanaq]

congratulations! the animation, modelling, lighting, textures, are really good, but cinematic design of the clip is simply beautiful. you could direct the space parts of a big scyfi movie with great results.

[@the-best-fragments-of-movies]

cool animation!

[@stewiepid4385]

This is really cool!

[@Agent77X]

Boeing is alway way head in the space race! Nobody can even come close! It is the luxury class space craft!

[@sugandanataatmaja3331]

Wonderful Expedition

[@WHHFDT]

Beautiful transition to the cgi rocket at liftoff, and epic tilt up to find the X-20 at the top of the stack. Made us wait for it just like a real tracking camera. 10/10.

[@olsonspeed]

A large scale mockup of the X-20 Dyna-Soar was on display at the 1992 World's Fair in Seattle. I was very disappointed to later learn that the program was cancelled and all US space efforts would be focused on the "spam in a can" capsule concept. I still view that decision to be extremely short sighted and wasteful of the technology that had been developed by Boeing. Today the need for an X-20 class of space plane is driving new designs and highlighting the shortsighted ending such a valuable program. Thanks for producing this beautiful animation of what NASA could have been accomplished in the mid 1960's and is only now realizing with the Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser.

[@TomTimeTraveler]

Here's a suggestion: the proposed parafoil (?) landing system for the Gemini spacecraft. I always wondered what that would look like (and if it could have actually worked).

[@mesmerizingscienceindu9371]

Expecting more awesome videos from you..great job👍👍👍

[@jesselopez0008]

Damm that's some sweet animation

[@datathunderstorm]

You, sir, are a fracking GENIUS...!!!! Mind. Totally. Blown. Then reconstituted and BLOWN AGAIN. Pure GENIUS...!!! p.s. Loved the choice of background surreal music too! 😊👍

[@raylight9258]

Nice animation, bravo!

[@neilpenny5475]

Very well done

[@66lesjo]

What a great film. Quality work. Just subbed.

[@lessevdoolbretsim]

Time-machining that thing to the past is a neat trick.

[@stitchem7]

The re-entry looked cool man.

[@Rickster5176]

I love it!!!!!! Great job.

[@MrHws5mp]

That's excellent - well done.

[@kevintang2605]

Keep up the good work!

[@DroneMee]

What a transition!

[@richschneider5488]

Nice music at the end.

[@richardsolberg4047]

As a youngster , always thought that was the coolest thing , next to the X-15 and The Black Bird ..

[@badguy1481]

I seem to remember when the Dyna-Soar program was cancelled..WHOLE BAYS of engineers at our plant disappeared over night. That was the beginning of the end of America's (long term) space program... at the end of the 1960's.

[@dalethelander3781]

Sweet render.

[@fakez90]

I really enjoyed that beat.

[@canadianragin]

Holy crap, this looks good

[@TheBussaca]

Fantastic work. You get a subscribe.

[@christopheschwartz7374]

Avec ce que j'ai vu! Vous avez un abonné de plus! Bravo pour cette belle vidéo...

[@deregapreyahvattaffdiff]

Haze, you already have a model for Saturn V and now UA series SRB. Any plan for Saturn INT series?