I remember being a kid in Russia in 90s. Economy in ruins. parents working all-day long just to bring food on the table, dirty streets, a lot crime, orphan kids on the streets sniffing glue. Even as a kid I felt how bad it all was. And I remember how me and my family went camping and fishing with friends. At night, when we sat near the fire camp, one of the grown ups told me to look at the sky and showned me a little white dot moving across the sky. "It is Space Station Mir. There are our Cosmonauts there". It probably was just a satellite, but at that moment I thought it was a space station, and it shocked my kids mind. Our, real russian space station in up there with real cosmonauts. It really contrasted with the poverty and gloominess of 90s. One of the brightest memories of my childhood. Needless to say, watching Mir going down in 2001 was heartbreaking.
@andyhu95423 жыл бұрын
That might probably NOT be a satellite,. A satellite is generally not big and bright enough to be seen on the ground, only objects like the Mir or the ISS is. If a satellite is that big, it would also make a headline (since it would had the space for humans onboard but chose to fill that space with equipment -it would be a super satellite!). I haven't heard about such powerful and versatile satellite being launched back then, therefore the chance that it was Mir was quite high! Edit: the information here is my own experience and opinion, which is not correct, see more comments below from people living in areas with clearer sky.
@andyhu95423 жыл бұрын
Oh, by the way, there must be records online about the exact location about the position of Mir throughout its life (which is not hard to calculate considering it's been in a stable orbit). You can verify whether the Mir was visible at that point on that day. (With the assumption that you remember which day it was...)
@silmarian3 жыл бұрын
I was an American kid at the same time (15 in 1991) and we got some news of how bad it was for you all. I'm not gonna say my feelings around Mir's end in any way compare to yours, but I was incredibly sad to see the storied station go down. I remember checking the newspaper in late 91/early 92 all the time to see if the stranded cosmonaut had been brought home yet. I couldn't grasp the enormity of what was happening, not really, but I could focus on that one thing.
@ronnybingham90073 жыл бұрын
胡嘉君 on a clear night, without lots of city/background lights satellites are easily visible. On a clear night here in NW Washington I can go outside and watch the sky for 10 minutes and see about 3 satellites on average. There are currently only 2 space stations - the ISS and China's new station, unfortunately the name escapes me - orbiting the earth and they both do so approx every 90 minutes because of their orbits (250 miles up, 17,500 mph). Even small satellites are visible on a clear night with minimal background light pollution. And there are thousands and thousands of them to be seen on any given night.
@mmdirtyworkz3 жыл бұрын
@@andyhu9542 you can easily see the satellites, I remember watching them at night during summer vacation as a kid in the late 80's. I still look them up when I'm somewhere with no light pollution.
@pop5678eye3 жыл бұрын
3:29 Correction: the Buran did make it into space in 1988. However it was an unmanned mission. The Buran demonstrated fully computer-controlled landing capabilities during that mission.
@ThePixelated_kris11 ай бұрын
this is correct
@thelouro_07833 жыл бұрын
3:30 The Buran shuttle did make it to space. It flew a test mission unmanned.
@ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын
1:55 - Chapter 1 - Beginnings 4:00 - Chapter 2 - Scrambling to launch 5:25 - Chapter 3 - Early MIR 8:55 - Chapter 4 - End of an era 11:30 - Chapter 5 - MIR grows 13:10 - Chapter 6 - Life on MIR 15:25 - Chapter 7 - Accidents 16:55 - Chapter 8 - The end - Chapter 9 - - Chapter 10 -
@marleenthart25212 ай бұрын
Legend thanks
@SRFriso943 жыл бұрын
There is something worth mentioning: the US did not fund the Russian space program out of kindness or a newfound generosity. The Soviet Union had hundreds of highly trained and highly experienced rocket scientists and engineers who would be out of a job if the US wouldn't give Russia the money to keep those people employed. And countries like Iran and North Korea (and others the US wouldn't want having access to advanced rocket technology) would be happy to offer them jobs instead. So the US decided it was a prudent investment, leaving them to deal with the devil they knew, and not gamble on what would come next.
@Karthagast3 жыл бұрын
Very good comment, indeed.
@StoneInMySandal3 жыл бұрын
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket You nailed it. ALL the political class are indeed douche bags.
@greorith3 жыл бұрын
Oh I am sure those Russian rocket scientist were just clamoring to go to Iran or North Korea if they threw them a couple pennies.
@kurtwollermann22103 жыл бұрын
better that cultures work together in space than start another nasty conflict on mother earth
@danstepka7753 жыл бұрын
no matter what or why we did it. it was for are good
@chatnoir12243 жыл бұрын
Word "Mir" means different things: 1) Peace 2) World 3) Community
@peterjones5963 жыл бұрын
You beat me to it! From my understanding, it was "world", from meeting a few cosmonauts many moons ago by chance. Peace would also have been a clever/sly bit of Soviet punning, too, and "world peace community" would have been even better.
@JPMadden3 жыл бұрын
I also heard it translated to mean the "world of the village." Think of pre-20th century peasants--their world was the village.
@peterjones5963 жыл бұрын
@@JPMadden Pre- C20th peasants the world over didn't get to travel unless they were either sailors or criminals... Now, as I was told by a cosmonaut who actually appeared in that video, I think we'll take his word for it, eh?
@JPMadden3 жыл бұрын
@@peterjones596 That's my point--they didn't travel, so their village was the world. Also, the unnecessary snark is not appreciated.
@Astronist7 ай бұрын
Right now it suggests "Russkij mir", or "Russian peace / village / community", which in practice means Russian war, cruelty, destruction and tyranny.
@michalschnek8745 Жыл бұрын
Funny thing about the somewhat relaxed daily schedule aboard the space station is, that back in the days of the Skylab missions, the exact opposite led to morale breakdown and something quite resembling a mutiny, when the crew outright refused to follow orders from the control center due to being overworked and still falling severely behind the plan. It is ever since then I believe that this more relaxed work regime got adopted.
@henri3723 жыл бұрын
Mir means "The World", "Peace" and "cooperation"/"community" which most stories miss.
@StevenLockey3 жыл бұрын
The ISS video is so old, you can still the see ghost of Simon's hair ;)
@ignitionfrn22233 жыл бұрын
It's the 1st one that is posted on Megaprojects actually
@olamajosta36213 жыл бұрын
Absolute violation 💀
@nickdaveNDM3 жыл бұрын
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. This channel is not very old. So the first video on this channel, he looks exactly like he does now. You can see on TopTenz that he started shaving his head years ago
@StevenLockey3 жыл бұрын
@@nickdaveNDM True I may have no idea but you clearly have no sense of humour
@lilmissmoose13 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 I'm not sure what's funnier, the people missing the joke completely or the joke itself
@kristiankoski39083 жыл бұрын
Buran actually went to space once albeit unmanned but it was nearly a perfect mission. Buran was also much more capable than Space Shuttle. Such a shame that the program got cancelled.
@kurtwollermann22103 жыл бұрын
it is time to rebuild the soviet space program
@Vaidulis3 жыл бұрын
@@kurtwollermann2210 20-30 years to late and more times expensive.
@adub13003 жыл бұрын
Hardly more capable when it was smaller and never saw real service. Whatever helps bring peace to your inferiority complex I guess.
@ethannorton5643 жыл бұрын
@@adub1300 bruh did the space shuttle do a full autonomous maiden flight Didn't think so
@Old_Man_Fire3 жыл бұрын
@@ethannorton564 the first several flights of the Enterprise were fully automated.
@tobigforyou3 жыл бұрын
3:39 Buran did go into space. albeit, only once & unmanned.
@tokyosmash3 жыл бұрын
ONLY remote vehicle to do so and land by itself.
@xXDrocenXx3 жыл бұрын
@@tokyosmash it does, once. And yes, such vehicles are normally remote controlled. Newer ones like SpaceX do it all by the computer it self. You don't have to transmission what it should do, it do it automatically.
@ManOnTheRange3 жыл бұрын
@@xXDrocenXx actually it wasnt remotely controlled but it use rudimentary digital computers with hardware synchronization to fly in complete automatic mode... it was even able to automatically start correct abort scenario without ground or pilot (future plan) input...
@tokyosmash3 жыл бұрын
@@xXDrocenXx this was in 1988, my guy. 33 years is an eternity when it comes to technology.
@michaelhowell23263 жыл бұрын
I just want to thank the writer for when talking about the time MIR was built not saying "the height of the Cold War". It's so rare to hear about space programs of the US and USSR and it not be described as such.
@WaywardVet3 жыл бұрын
Niel deGrasse Tyson said it best. Sputnik meant fellow traveler. Our Atlas V was just an amped up V2 rocket. The space race was extremely military oriented. Yes, we did amazing things, but we were both strapping guys and girls to ICBMs in a ridiculous contest.
@michaelhowell23263 жыл бұрын
@@WaywardVet it's the way humanity works. Necessity is the mother of invention but war is its much more motivating father.
@aquilarossa51913 жыл бұрын
13:22 Mir is over the Cook Strait in NZ. I can almost see my house (I was living in the Nelson region at the time, but I was probably away working at sea). It reminds me of all the skydiving I did back then in Nelson and Motueka.
@haunter_18452 жыл бұрын
I was a 10 year old kid fascinated with space when MIR came down. I still have a newspaper from the day. I was pretty upset by the loss of a legend, but was really excited about the ISS. My classmates were also excited, but not because of the ISS. You see, Taco Bell had placed a giant target out in the ocean and promised everyone a free taco if a piece of MIR hit the target. It didn't happen...
@Melody_Raventress Жыл бұрын
Ha, Oh man, that's something.
@automechs3603 жыл бұрын
The ISS's parts were delivered by an awesome plane called the "Guppy". I remember because I saw a part of it at the local airport on it's way to Cape Canaveral. It was really neat.
@rodrigonogueiramota44333 жыл бұрын
bonus fact: in Brazil there´s an expression called "things are Russian" (a coisa tá Russa) meaning something is mega hard and nearly impossible to destroy
@SIX-SH00T3R3 жыл бұрын
"I thought drinking in space was not allowed! Epic!" ACCIDENTS
@Beryllahawk3 жыл бұрын
Great video!! Mir was really quite the epic achievement in many ways. As to feeling old - look, I remember when Skylab was a big deal, okay? Hoping that humanity at LEAST gets some kind of station on the Moon before I die, dangit.
@richardruff871223 күн бұрын
Yes, all of us ' oldies ' remember the good old days... 50 odd years since the moon landings, almost no progress since ( apart from a few space stations ) and I think they should be trying to make some kind of gravity module or wheel, similar to the beautiful 2001 film wheel... They simply MUST have earth gravity, for the people to live properly up in space...
@Melody_Raventress Жыл бұрын
At 11:35 you can really see how jacked up that lower right panel is getting from space debris hitting it. Such a sad loss, I always regret watching such things, both symbol and an actual home in space for so many years, fall.
@wrightmf3 жыл бұрын
The book Dragonfly (I haven't finished reading yet) talks about US and Russia working together on Mir. What stood out to me was most NASA astronauts wanted nothing to do with Mir and astronaut office had to scramble to find those willing to do a Mir mission. Russia wanted astronauts to have spaceflight experience before serving on Mir and one astronaut willing to serve on Linenger was fast tracked to a Shuttle mission shortly after becoming an astronaut. There were other issues which one has to ask "did they really do that or this happened?"
@arillwiltker3 жыл бұрын
I would highly suggest picking up that book if you find space history interesting, it is an excellent read!
@randomramjet7823 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Could tell you enjoyed that. More space related content please. There is so much happening with space flight and exploration today.
@camerondickerson56343 жыл бұрын
“This is your piss, Demetri” 🤣😂
@bigdaddy71193 жыл бұрын
“Now I’m off to take a golden shower” 😂
@LoftBits3 жыл бұрын
Chelomei's TKS (which eventually was recycled as part of Mir) always fascinated me - especially with its heatshield hatch and pressurised compartment in the rear 'FGB' module, it felt more 'spaceship-like', compared to Soyuz. Mind you, I grew up watching Space 1999, with its 'Eagles', so in my mind a spaceship HAD TO have a door/tunnel behind the pilots ;-)
@lolerskates8763 жыл бұрын
Another scary thing about the MIR fire was that smoke was everywhere. Smoke didn't rise to the top. In free fall smoke just mixes with all the air, you couldn't crawl under the smoke
@krystacn3 жыл бұрын
1) I believe the footage of "Mir's reentry" @ 1:35 is actually film of the destruction of Colombia on her fatal reentry. 2) if the above is correct, I think it is at best, insensitive and demeaning to all the Colombia heroes that perished, to use images of. their. deaths. As representation of the end of the Mir mission that, while dramatic, suffered no loss of life. There probably isn't any real footage of Mirs Detroit so alternative images can be fine. There are literally hundreds of films of things reentering the atmosphere that could substitute for Mir. It just shouldn't be of heroes ihn their deaths I do love almost all of your stuff Simon, including this one! Keep up the good work!
@SlightlyNasty3 жыл бұрын
Nope, it's Mir: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIe0lWx7n9CVn9k Why do you think there wouldn't be footage? This was a BIG media event at the time.
@Robochuck3 жыл бұрын
I wonder is the wreckage in the pacific ocean has been traced and if there are still pieces a "treasure hunter" deep sea exploration team could pick up for historical significance.
@zopEnglandzip3 жыл бұрын
Think it would have been largely machined from billet aluminum like the ISS meaning whatever twisted melted wreckage survived re entry has probably rotted away at the bottom of the ocean since unfortunately.
@dougwalker49443 жыл бұрын
i saw it go by on its last orbit ...skywatching, looking for some thing ...saw the streak... didn't really know at the time...later ...wow! end of an era of my youth.
@Law00863 жыл бұрын
The weightlessness part of space and the effects it has on us just goes to show how specifically geared humans are to survive on THIS planet.
@armyericv3 жыл бұрын
Good stuff! Can you do a video on how the GPS system came about?
@sandybarnes8873 жыл бұрын
He did a bit about it on Today I Found Out a year ago. Not sure if it covered the beginning tho.
@nullc0ntext3 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOD I had just commented on your Salyut 7 video on another channel that i'd love for you to do one on the Mir! Then the magic happened and here we are. Good on you Simon. Top work old chap!
@lostcarpark3 жыл бұрын
Great video. I've been hoping you'd do Mir for ages. I think a video on the Salyut stations would also be very interesting, and I don't think anyone can deny they were a megaproject in their own right.
@adambrandon13 жыл бұрын
This was my suggestion! Thanks so much Simon! Your channels are absolutely awesome to watch. 🤘🏻
@benjamintravers42173 жыл бұрын
Suggestion: It's a dark topic but "The Search for What Went Wrong in the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster". Seems there's a lot less content on that than there is for the Challenger disaster so it would be quite interesting to see a dive into it.
@whodeany993 жыл бұрын
Agreed, seems it is insignificant compared to Challenger and given it happened months prior to 9/11 it never got the attention it so rightly deserved.
@Astronist7 ай бұрын
"The original space habitat" … that would be Salyut, in 1971, with its groundbreaking successor Salyut stations up to Salyut 7.
@chatnoir12243 жыл бұрын
Another epic story is that in 1986 there was first in history Station to Station flight: Soyuz spacecraft went from Mir to Salut-7 space station
@Andrew-vj2ep3 жыл бұрын
yup yup it’s an epic goodie. Manual docking to Mir, 2 month shake-down & unpacking of the new furniture. Then over to Salyut-7, pack up the house over 2 months, do a couple of EVAs to bring in the clothes-line, then back to Mir
@DerFoerderator3 жыл бұрын
You can see that Simon has a lot of fun on this video.
@missheadbanger3 жыл бұрын
I can't wait until there's a space station orbiting the moon, it's called Gateway and it's a vital part of the Artemis progam. The Artemis program will no doubt inspire many children to be astronauts or in other space professions, as the Apollo and space shuttle programs did for current scientists. There's no end to the awesomeness of space. 😂
@megaprojects96493 жыл бұрын
Artemis video coming soon :)
@ethannorton5643 жыл бұрын
@@megaprojects9649 FINALLY 😂
@shelbyseelbach95683 жыл бұрын
Since it's NASA, you'll simply have to wait.
@talscorner36963 жыл бұрын
"Geriatric danger" sounds... cooler than it has any right to, probably xD
@owenshebbeare29993 жыл бұрын
"Geriatric danger" describes most politicians. So many old fools!
@budje3 жыл бұрын
It's a nice band name 🤣
@johnsmythe94123 жыл бұрын
Excellent writing and entertaining delivery. Well done again. I quite enjoy these videos of yours sir.
@KnightsWithoutATable3 жыл бұрын
If I recall correctly, there was a single Cosmonaut on the station when the USSR fell. He was stuck up there for so long that he set a record for number of days in space continuously at the time and had to do serious physical rehabilitation when he got back to Earth.
@carschmn3 жыл бұрын
I remember when there were bets on where MIR would come down. Taco Bell had a target and promised free tacos if a piece of MIR hit it.
@brianedwards71423 жыл бұрын
Simon, do a talk about the water cycle. Rain isn't just water, you know and every drop has been through many (mostly non human) kidneys in the last few hundred million years. It's not just water, there's other nutrient cycles that reuse the same resources over and over. Pick any person in history or prehistoric animal and chances are you have a few atoms in your body that were once in them.
@orangepeel71153 жыл бұрын
Thank you egg of wisdom, for shedding this information on my brain
@Joze10903 жыл бұрын
That's a hairy egg
@StarScapesOG3 жыл бұрын
Simon, what gives? You totally should do a video on Bagger 293 and or Bingham Canyon copper mine! They are both mega in their own way! At the very least they should get side projects videos on them!
@hawlitakerful3 жыл бұрын
No video about any of the various baggers can ever top bagger 288 it pretty much tells you everything about it 😉
@StarScapesOG3 жыл бұрын
@@hawlitakerful it is a big one for sure, but 293 holds the world record as the largest vehicle in history. It was built after 288.
@hawlitakerful3 жыл бұрын
@@StarScapesOG i know i know In case you didn't get the reference... kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6uop5l6aahppdk It was more of a comedic remark
@StarScapesOG3 жыл бұрын
@@hawlitakerful haha! I did not get that reference, I had never seen that clip before! But it is hilarious!
@kiberburjui96083 жыл бұрын
"Mir" also means "world", not only "peace"
@ClamBake75253 жыл бұрын
It thought Mir means Moon?
@m1t2a13 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine both? World peace. That would be great. Having world peace.
@FrankyPi3 жыл бұрын
@@ClamBake7525 Luna is Moon.
@ClamBake75253 жыл бұрын
@@FrankyPi duh, I thought Mir in Russian meant moon.
@r4ymaster3 жыл бұрын
In Russian, "Mir" literally means "peace" as it does in most other slavic languages, my native language included. In what language does it mean world?
@jeffersonott43573 жыл бұрын
Megaprojects with 666k subscribers. November 1st, 2021. Congrats Simon "beelzabub" Whistler
@Feszy_3 жыл бұрын
Simon, my man, you need a space channel on youtube
@samsmith26353 жыл бұрын
The Day I watched the MIR Space station burn up in the Atmosphere I was very sad. It represented advancement, change, cooperation. Never forget the Cosmonauts!
@MIN0RITY-REP0RT3 жыл бұрын
The Buran space shuttle "unfortunately never made it into space". Someone hasn't done his homework... yes it did, it completed a single orbit unmanned. Need to be careful, also, with the current Orion Space Capsule, which is neither docking-rated nor man-rated.
@JamesOberg3 жыл бұрын
Two orbits?
@lukasmakarios4998 Жыл бұрын
I love this space stuff, too! Do more!
@elliotsmith98123 жыл бұрын
Surely the day the crew got locked out side had to be one of the highlights. The ISS did not follow from MIR, it overlapped. That means that the last day every single human was on the Earth, was the day before MIR was first occupied. This should be a holiday.
@llynellyn3 жыл бұрын
That's 35 years since every human has been on the planet at once, crazy.
@rayceeya86593 жыл бұрын
Sergei Krikalev was a russian cosmonaut who launched just before the collapse of the Soviet Union and was actually stranded on Mir until they figured out how to get him down. Can you imagine being in space and seeing the country that launched you dissolve?
@Estolcles3 жыл бұрын
@7:56 "The Dog Pound Hop" from "Ren & Stimpy" starts playing.... I lost it. Didn't hear that one coming.
@Jimblefy3 жыл бұрын
Great video Simon and your set look great. :)
@ExperimentIV3 жыл бұрын
damn im sad the writers didn’t include the water that would accumulate behind the wall panelling that was full of visible glittering bacteria colonies bc mir got pretty damn gross in its old age
@talscorner36963 жыл бұрын
Talking about a geriatric danger...
@russellfitzpatrick5033 жыл бұрын
You sure they weren't part of the experiments?
@talscorner36963 жыл бұрын
@@russellfitzpatrick503 they probably were, eventually xD
@robswystun27663 жыл бұрын
The Buran never got into space, but it got onto Megaprojects and that's just as good.
@frankchan42723 жыл бұрын
Buran did go to space November 1988 unmanned, & made 2 orbits before it re-entered the atmosphere & landed safely but it never flew again.
@robswystun27663 жыл бұрын
@@frankchan4272 (Just go with it, man.)
@roycsinclair3 жыл бұрын
For a future Mega Project consider "Rockets that are Reusable". The idea itself goes back to the earliest days where space travel by rockets was envisioned as well documented in Buck Rogers but proved surprisingly hard to accomplish.
@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt27183 жыл бұрын
Already did a Dyson sphere, so now do an O'Neil cylinder since stuff that hasn't been built yet is fair game.
@johnboze3 жыл бұрын
Skylab? Dad launched Humans to Skylab way before Mir had diapers!
@paulbowser19893 жыл бұрын
It literally blows my mind how long it takes at least some American public schools to begin upgrading their textbooks. The Soviet Union was dissolved not long after I turned 2 yet when I was in elementary school the books we used still didn't call it Russia, it was still the Soviet Union. I also remember wall maps having it all labeled as the Soviet Union. Same with 9/11. It happened while I was in 7th grade and I went through the rest of middle school and all of highschool without it ever being mentioned in textbooks
@joannesmith24843 жыл бұрын
What state were you in? That makes a huge difference in the quality of public education. Even from town to town there can be big disparities.
@ethannorton5643 жыл бұрын
16:09 Actually Russia and the Soviet union used a nitrogen oxygen mix for their spacecraft atmospheres. Only the us used to use oxygen rich environments.
@Thraka5 Жыл бұрын
I still wish someone would have bought Mir and turned it into a space hotel. Yes this suggestion was very much floating around the Internet and news back in the late 90s.
@markplott48203 жыл бұрын
Megaprojects - FALSE , the FIRST American Space Station was the MOL - Manned Operating Lab. it had a Crew of 2 , and used a Gemini B capsule as Transport and Lifeboat. the Russian ALMAZ was similar but Smaller in scope . later on we had the Skylab Project , with a crew of 3 , and used Apollo Command and Service modules. and the Space Shuttle had Space HAB , and Space LAB.
@ericbrennemann74743 жыл бұрын
8:02 do you have never ask yourself, what tap water is? i dont know how its done in you location, but its basically cleaned and processed dirty water. Beside... maybe a good topic for a new megaprojects episode?! Waterdistributionsystem are hugh!
@ryanrocksmetal3 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to these videos to learn new things, and the memes that are sprinkled in. Interesting and hilarious
@aviramiancovici933 жыл бұрын
You rock Simon! thx for video!
@lamaahruloma42703 жыл бұрын
Thank you verry verrry much for this video!
@Shalashaska133 жыл бұрын
Finally Thank you Simon
@Radicalsolace3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@barrydysert29743 жыл бұрын
Simon, Before saying this was your favourite episode in a while, i had decided the same thing. Your enjoyment of the subject is clear from the beginning. It's a good thing!:-) 🖖
@janetmontalvo69442 жыл бұрын
I could’ve sworn that the title said Mr space station
@MaxQ100013 ай бұрын
It's a bit funny how history is unfolding. Both the US and USSR wanted a station, and a shuttle. The US made a working shuttle, but due to cost overruns, had to cancel the station. The USSR also had cost overruns, but they cancelled the shuttle. So one side had a shuttle, but no station to fly to and the other side had a station but no shuttle to fly to it. Imagine if they had started to cooperate earlier, together having both a shuttle and a station.
@bigginsd13 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on Mircorp, the private company that tried to buy Mir and actually paid to launch a mission to inspect the station. It would have to hold the record for most expensive home inspection from a prospective real estate buyer in history. Along with Elon Musk’s attempts to buy Russian ICBMs to send to Mars it has to be the most batshit crazy story from private space entrepreneurs. FYI about the Musk story, he wanted to send mice to Mars originally before he changed it to seeds which he would grow into plants in a small greenhouse using Martian soil. He attempted to buy 3 ICBMs (without the nuclear warhead) but got sick of the Russians dicking him around and continually raising the price, which was why he decided to build rockets himself and founded SoaceX. When he first talked about sending mice one of his friends bought him an enormous wheel of cheese as a joke, saying he had all the food supplies he needed for the mission now. Years later Musk sent the same wheel of cheese in the first Dragon cargo capsule to dock with the ISS.
@beachboy05053 жыл бұрын
Super megaproject Excellent video 📹 👏 Amazing engineering
@kingnekogon3 жыл бұрын
My favorite part of this video was 1:10 where Simon very *nearly* had a Blaze moment and you could SEE him remember which channel he's on.
@mgabrysSF3 жыл бұрын
03:30 hang on - it most certainly made it into space - just without a crew.
@phillipdykshorn33473 жыл бұрын
I love your space videos. Could we more information on lunar landings and maybe something about the dark side of the moon?
@paulbowser19893 жыл бұрын
The ISS has been in orbit since November 20, 1998 so it'll have been in orbit for 23 years in 19 days. You're right, that makes me feel old. Just like the fact that 9/11 happened 20 years ago. I was in 7th grade when that happened. I'm the oldest out of my siblings. 1 was born in 92 and the other 2 were both born after 9/11 and they seem to love making me feel old just because I'm the only one born in the 80s
@llynellyn3 жыл бұрын
This may make you feel even older, the ISS is essentially a Mir class station with loads of extra modules attached by other countries, it's core module was built alongside Mir's and originally designated Mir 2 (this is why the Russian sections look so bad, because some of them are 30+ years old).
@avejst3 жыл бұрын
Great video as always Thanks for sharing :-)
@sampilcher71963 жыл бұрын
The best thumbnail yet.
@stephenhammond69623 жыл бұрын
Yet another great video Nomis 👍👌
@elizabethgerard72583 жыл бұрын
I love the use of the Ren and Stimpy theme!
@thejudgmentalcat3 жыл бұрын
"You want my delicious ice cream sandwich!"
@KoLjabes973 жыл бұрын
Effortless thumbnail design, simple yet elegant.
@rorrodeh3 жыл бұрын
"Dimitri, we told you not to eat any asparragus before liftoff!"
@marjae27673 жыл бұрын
The Buran did go into space, on a test launch, achieving its most important mission: allowing Glushko to one-up his late rival Korolev. Ironically it ended up using kerosene, hydrogen, and oxygen, instead of UDMH, N2O4, and petty rivalry.
@ryanhamstra493 жыл бұрын
If you love space stuff do one on spacex’s starship. It’s just a prototype right now, but if it’s even 1/10’th as successful as they hope it would be the biggest leap forward since Apollo. Also, what they have actually achieved down in Texas at this point is a mega project in itself. Look at what they have built in just over 2 years
@jrios11683 жыл бұрын
Simon, the Buran DID make it to space...once, unmanned.
@Cryodrake3 жыл бұрын
I really suggest you doing the ITER fusion reactor in france the tech and engineering put into that is insane.
@ImpmanPDX3 жыл бұрын
The booze was a bit of surprise and contention with the first Astronauts on Mir, but even more so when coming home on the Soyuz because the Cosmos brought a "survival" pistol along in case the capsule came down in Siberia. Guns on a space station were a no-go in NASA.
@pamelamays41863 жыл бұрын
Suggestion: Space programs of countries other than the USA and Russia, such as, China. Also, the rise of the steel industry in Pennsylvania, particularly, Pittsburgh.
@B2BWide3 жыл бұрын
+1
@liquidsatan6663 жыл бұрын
Does anybody else remember the Taco Bell target set up in the middle of the ocean for when Mir and Skylab came down?
@robswystun27663 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I remember that.
@gamecollectorbr3 жыл бұрын
Nice video as always! Make a video about Brasilia - the city was built in 1000 days!
@ljphoenix43413 жыл бұрын
After 24 hours, we finally have a proper thumbnail for the video, rather than just a cool picture of Simon
@bjw48593 жыл бұрын
That was a very interesting video, at the time I have vague memories of the US/USSR space programmes, but thought little about it, that summed it all up well. I know I have seen other videos on bringing Germany from a smoking pile of rubble into the jewel of Europe, but could you do 1 ?, it would be awesome, if that wasn't a mega project I don't know what is, cheers.
@boglenight15512 жыл бұрын
Water has all once been piss anyway, might as well drink it from the source
@TheTweedler3 жыл бұрын
Other than having the wrong space station in the thumbnail, good stuff!
@b16467172 жыл бұрын
Leave a Russian in space for 14 months and don't send a drink or two and I guarantee building a still in space will become experiment priority #1.
@Lilchuckle23 жыл бұрын
So early Simon didn’t finish his tea and crumpets yet
@TheSpaceBrosShow3 жыл бұрын
Wot wot
@fallowed3 жыл бұрын
please, please, please New horizons. My Son was born just before it was launched and I remember telling him for his primary school space lesson about all the planets and the only thing I could say about Pluto - which was a planet at that time - was it was 'slightly pink' thanks due to the Hubble images. I remember waiting a decade for that probe unveil what it did., which was, spectacular!
@philrabe910 Жыл бұрын
16:45 The scary thing about sealing off the compartment was all the hoses, air ducts, and wires that were run through the hatchways between modules. Very un NASA.