Finally, something else that comes up when I google “Thor Rocket” that isn’t related to a buff blonde man and a raccoon.
@AadidevSooknananNXS2 жыл бұрын
Beat me to it!
@drunkpaulocosta2 жыл бұрын
@@AadidevSooknananNXS didnt beat Scott to it as its the first thing he says in the video basically
@baconpancakes17522 жыл бұрын
Kinky...
@theussmirage2 жыл бұрын
Funny you mention that, as both things you mentioned show up 15 seconds into this video!
@blingbling5742 жыл бұрын
I was expecting a piece of cheese
@My3nMy42 жыл бұрын
Going a little further down the rabbit hole - Telstar 1, which was launched on a Thor Delta (DM-19), was killed by the Starfish test which itself was launched by a Thor. The God of Thunder giveth, the God of Thunder take the away…
@JAMoore-zz3ki2 жыл бұрын
For those curious about the t-shirt...... It's referring to all the ways you can die in a video game called The Long Dark, by a company called Hinterland Studios. Hinterland also sells the t-shirt. (Or at least they did, pre-pandemic. No idea what their status is now.)
@Lucius_Chiaraviglio2 жыл бұрын
I was going to say, that's a pretty dire shirt.
@lenajesse2 жыл бұрын
Thank you🙂 I kept staring at the shirt and was really puzzled 😄 I don't play the game so my best guess was "all the ways you can die if you travel" ...or go outside" 😄
@catfish5522 жыл бұрын
Very nice, thank you! I'd assumed it was something like that, but I guessed Oregon Trail.
@Tfaonc2 жыл бұрын
I thought it was going to be a "xxxxx can kill me, but names will never hurt me" kind of thing.
@gsnedders_legacy2 жыл бұрын
Ahhhhhhh! Well that makes a lot of sense. (Also a game I need to go back and play more of!)
@Fred_Bender2 жыл бұрын
My father worked for Chrysler aerospace from 1958 through the end of Skylab . He started with NACA working at Langley AFB .He assisted with development of grooved runways for jets .Every time I drive on grooved pavement I am reminded of his contribution.I still have his old Chrysler hard hat,Skylab Medal and NACA pin.
@judet29925 ай бұрын
Dude that’s some sick physical artifacts for his memory!
@WWeronko2 жыл бұрын
Any decision of the Thor IRBM should include is sister rocket the Jupiter IRBM. The sibling rivalry between the two developments for which was two nearly identical rockets was legendary. The Jupiter team, under the direction of Wernher von Braun built the better more reliable rocket initially. The Jupiter program was more successful due to far better testing and preparations. The Jupiter missiles were also used in a series of suborbital biological test flights. The Saturn I and Saturn IB rockets were manufactured by using a single Jupiter propellant tank, in combination with eight Redstone rocket propellant tanks clustered around it, to form a powerful first stage launch vehicle. It could be said Saturn I and IB were derivatives of the Jupiter program. The Jupiter MRBM was also modified by adding upper stages, in the form of clustered Sergeant-derived rockets, to create a space launch vehicle called Juno II. It launched Pioneer 3, Pioneer 4, Explorer 7, Explorer 8, and Explorer 11. One of the two rocket programs would have been canceled due to their near identical performance and Thor having the significant higher failure rate probably would have been the canceled program. However, after the Soviet launches of Sputnik 1-2 in late 1957, US Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson announced that both Thor and Jupiter would go into service as his final act before leaving office. This was both out of fear of Soviet capabilities and also to avoid political repercussions from the workplace layoffs that would result at either Douglas or Chrysler if one of the two missiles were canceled. All very interesting rocket history.
@topsecret18372 жыл бұрын
Jupiter was a much more expensive rocket though. It was very similar to Thor but aside from a handful of launches it didn’t have a success rate that justified continuing launching it for that price after 1963.
@mydogbrian48142 жыл бұрын
> A von Braun *Saturn-1* derivative could have put a 15 ton Pioneer-1 satellite into earth orbit in 1957. If the US would have backed the Army Redstone Team with the same funding as the Air Force Atlas Team. - It was all about the clustered booster aproch using the well tested & operational Redstone. The same technique that, instead put the Russians into the history books. - And Space history would have been completely different.
@advorak85292 жыл бұрын
@@mydogbrian4814 Like the N1.
@Roguescienceguy2 жыл бұрын
If Wernher were to somehow be resurrected I can only Imagine what he would say about the way things are being handled these days. Pretty sure that some very strong German swearwords would be used
@the18thdoctor32 жыл бұрын
@@mydogbrian4814 uh… what? Maybe you mean the Juno I, and maybe you mean 15 kilograms. And the Juno I’s clustering was on the upper stages.
@robertburns8597 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Scott, for putting this together. I worked on the Block5d DMSP Weather satellite program in 79-81. We launched the Thor from SLC 10 West at Vandenberg AFB. I was the upper stage console operator. One of 25 blue suit enlisted launch crew members I the AF, I had 3 stripes! My all time favorite job!
@jamiewilliams51342 жыл бұрын
Nice that you mentioned Telstar. We at Goonhilly are celebrating 60 years since that first transatlantic communications test via satellite, which we received with our aerial 1(GHY1).
@roderickreilly96662 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine, the late Dick Morrison, helped develop that original Thor in record time. Morrison was one of America's post WWII rocket pioneers.
@samsonsoturian60132 жыл бұрын
There is nothing more permanent than temporary situations.
@44R0Ndin2 жыл бұрын
Works in IT, works in spaceflight, after all they have a lot of overlap.
@simongeard48242 жыл бұрын
There's an infamous comment in the codebase I work on, to the effect of "if this is still here in a year's time, I'll eat my hat". That was written about twenty years ago.
@advorak85292 жыл бұрын
Temporary building structures like Quonset huts.
@44R0Ndin2 жыл бұрын
@@simongeard4824 Reminds me of the "temporary" ethernet cable I ran from the router to my computer in my bedroom when we first got high-speed internet. I promised my parents it would be temporary, but it stayed there for about 2 years before I finally ran the cable thru the walls properly. Such things are also pretty much the norm when renting a living space, since you can't just do what you need to do to route the cable properly, so it gets temporarily stuck up with tape wherever it will hopefully stay out of the way. Ugly yes, but the situation demands it, and no you really shouldn't be relying on wi-fi especially in an apartment building because you just know that's gonna be a very crowded RF band so the throughput will be terrible and the ping will be all over the place, instead of the steady ping that you need for things like gaming and high throughput you need for things like making Netflix and other streaming services work. To this day I don't get why people settle for WiFi connections for their expensive gaming PC's. They always say "it can't be done". That's never the case. There is always a solution, even if it might be a bit ugly.
@44R0Ndin2 жыл бұрын
@@advorak8529 Yes, go look at Boca Chica and try to tell me those tents were meant to be there for as long as they have been. I doubt that was the in"tent". If they were meant to be there for as long as they have been, they would have likely been made of some sort of metal, and it's not like they couldn't do that since they get so much stainless steel shipped in, all they'd really need is the girders (and they're getting girders shipped in to build things like the launch tower and the high bay, so those supply lines are also already in place). I guess the time it takes to convert to a more permanent structure instead of the tents just hasn't been available. Or maybe I'm full of crap and they intended those tents to be permanent structures, at least permanent enough that they would be there for going on 3 or more years now.
@cliffwhite59632 жыл бұрын
My father, Col. RW Walton (Ret), was the launch coordinator of the first all military crew to put a satellite in orbit (wx sat for Russian air space SAC). The sat was on a Thor our to Vandenberg on March 17, 1965. I was 15 yo and had no clue of that compliment as it was classified. I have a photo of the Thor on the launch pad.
@Papershields0012 жыл бұрын
A couple years ago I was working right next to Goddard and a snowstorm was about to hit so everything was closed and there was nobody around. I went and got a sub on my lunch break and snuck around back into the Rocket garden behind the visitor’s center and ate a meatball sub using their entire stacked Thor Delta as a parasol. Good times. Cool looking rocket. 10 out of 10 would trespass again.
@glhx21122 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this episode ! I spent the last 8 years of my USAF career stationed at Vandenberg AFB, and was able to explore all of those old Thor launch sites shown in your video. A surprising amount of the old Thor (And Atlas) launch infrastructure was still present when I left the base back in the mid 2000's. Some of the launch sites were re-purposed for other programs. I did not know about Ground Guidance being used, that is new to me, but, I do know Atlas used that system, or, at at least some of the old Atlas systems did.
@scottmanley2 жыл бұрын
Ground vs Onboard navigation is something that changed over time as technology advanced and requirements changed.
@matthewmartin57632 жыл бұрын
Even after watching Scott for nearly 10 years, starting with KSP tutorials; I still want to fire up the game and play. Especially when he does videos on early US rockets like these. Scott, I credit you with my ever growing knowledge of orbital mechanics. You taught me WTH hyper-golic fuel is. And, so much more. I could go on and on. I think I speak for a majority of your viewers when I say that I appreciate all you do to help educate people on really complicated stuff.
@Carstuff1112 жыл бұрын
This is one of many reasons I love this channel, thank you as always for the content!
@dewayneblue18342 жыл бұрын
Such unique looks on those stub-nosed Thor-DM18As, as well as the long 'lance' on the Thor-Able 2s. Definitely icons of the early Space Age.
@r0cketplumber2 жыл бұрын
After that nuke launch failure, Johnston island became the world's only open-cast plutonium mine.
@jsfriedberg2 жыл бұрын
Outstanding video. I remember the Thor / Delta for its reliability in so many different roles. What tremendous value its team delivered over the years! Thank you, Scott, for highlighting this important piece of our nation's technological and security history.
@Hurricane16682 жыл бұрын
I'm 68...This stuff is what I grew up with. Love it!
@aledandrian2 жыл бұрын
I love videos like this about the history of launch systems, please keep making more of them
@RCAvhstape2 жыл бұрын
7:28 that Lockheed ad for the Agena stage is classic. You could do a whole video about the Agena, which was a real workhorse for America in the early days of spaceflight.
@MIflyer51242 жыл бұрын
I was the last USAF Thor Program Manager. The last launch was in 1980 and we shut the program down in 1981 because the final Thor payload, DMSP Block 5D-2, had gotten larger and heavier and moved on to converted Atlas E ICBMs. The mandatory use of the Shuttle meant that no one was designing payloads capable of being launched by Thor, and although I often heard the claim that, "There are payloads out there for Thor but you are just not looking for them hard enough!" that was not just true. You would have thought there were homeless people wandering the streets with spacecraft under their arms, people who would have been healthy, happy and productive if they could have just found a rocket. When we shut the program down we had four intact LV-2D boosters, basically the last of the SM-75's brought back from England, and five SLV-2A boosters. We also had an LV-2D fuel tank engine section and an SLV-2H fuel tank and engine section; the LOX tanks from those boosters had been used in ground tests to determine the vulnerability of ballistic missiles to lasers. After the loss of the Shuttle Challenger in 1986 the latest built engines from two of the SLV-2A were used for Delta boosters and the turbine wheels were removed from all of the other Thor MB-3 Block I and Block III engines in order to enable new RS-27 engines to be built for Delta boosters. It had been so long since we had built new MB-3 or RS-27 engines that the company that made the turbine wheels had gone out of business.
@Tool-Meister2 жыл бұрын
Love Scott’s accent. Makes him sounding like he’s saying “Exploder VI”. Might be more accurate that way!
@bhaskararaka2 жыл бұрын
Nothing more permanent than a “temporary solution”
@orbitalair21032 жыл бұрын
OK Scott, I expect a full 30 min video on the Delta series !!! I worked for Thiokol Huntsville from 87-92, as a Project Engineer (1 of 3) in the Castor Office. Then we were working CastorIVa for the 6900 series. We helped launched GPS. I was on pad17b helping McDac prep for the first launch (my first business trip) of DeltaII with Castor IVAs. IIRC we built over 210 CastorIVAs for DeltaII, with 100% success. Those CastorI motors were bleeding edge, they would burn out all the insulation and then about 1/4" of steel on the nozzle - talk about maximum impulse and minimum dead weight. We had a great team, but they wanted it all moved to Utah, so they shut us down.
@rocketmentor2 жыл бұрын
If anyone wants to see the LR-79 Thor liquid booster thrust chamber I moved several of the LR-79 TCAs to the Saxon Aerospace Museum in Boron, CA out in front which can be seen from HWY 58 as you drive by, and a complete LR-79 engine with turbo pumps is at the New Mexico Museum of Aerospace History near Alamogordo NM outside at the entrance to the museum building. These engines were part of the SEALAR program by Bob Truax which I was the senior engineer. Ken
@61Ldf2 жыл бұрын
Scott, another excellent video with Ed Kyle’s detailed drawings.
@VictorDeVandenesse2 жыл бұрын
Very nice video on a not very famous rocket but mostly important for early US space program. There is the awesome KSP mod BlueDogDesignBureau that have all it's variants and payloads up to the Delta IV
@fuzzyhead8782 жыл бұрын
I have BDB and FASA. Love both mods. I’ve been using them to create crazy Gemini/Apollo derived vehicles.
@Tomyironmane2 жыл бұрын
I just love how the engine designation on the one upper stage started with XLR8. Someone has a sense of humor.
@canadianragin2 жыл бұрын
I love how bluedog design bureau provides some of the top-quality Thor images
@bioriderfc2 жыл бұрын
Thank you and Ed Kyle.
@parallelflow2 жыл бұрын
When I opened the video I got an ad about some Thor-themed beer, and considering the channel and the topic it couldn't have fit better lol
@rustygear4472 жыл бұрын
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution
@petequintanilla42372 жыл бұрын
Scott’s tee shirt sounds like me when I’m calling in sick to work.
@camillovidani25862 жыл бұрын
Your SEO game is impeccable, Scott
@Arational2 жыл бұрын
Interesting bucket list t-shirt
@jasonplant54322 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love your channel.Mr Manley. Great stuff EVERYTIME.
@CantankerousDave2 жыл бұрын
“Nothing lasts longer than a ‘temporary fix’ that works well enough.”
@torybruno79522 жыл бұрын
Nicely researched, Scott
@msimpson542 жыл бұрын
Scott can you do something about the “Titan” family? There is quite a bit out there about Gemini and the Titan 2 GLV but I can’t find much about Titan 3 and 4 that’s not rubbish or in about 140P xD
@jmwoods1902 жыл бұрын
And while we're doing it- Add honorable mentions for the unbuilt LDC variants that have 4 engines on the 1st core stage with 2-4 SRMs aka Titans 3L2 & 3L4. The 3L4 would've had equal thrust to STS!
@RCAvhstape2 жыл бұрын
Not to mention the Titan V, which was used by Zephram Cochrane to launch his prototype warp drive spacecraft.
@richb3132 жыл бұрын
Thanks Scott for another history lesson in the development of rockets and their uses from the start until now.
@orbitalair21032 жыл бұрын
Great video Scott. Awesome pics and videos of launches.
@MoonWeasel232 жыл бұрын
Douglas is out here fielding a ballistic missile in 7 months while I can’t get a satellite finished in 2 years.
@chrismorris65442 жыл бұрын
Hello I work at Douglas and all the paper work and testing for everything takes time and a lot of wast unfortunately because each bird is a little different.And satellite are on the expensive side. Look at what happen with Delta III . Thank You I hope this help a little.
@sporg2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video as always, Scott. Great to see the Thor getting its story told in detail: there are so many early shots of Thor failures -- many on or near the launchpad -- that its later successes are often overlooked.
@kevinturner62812 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video Scott, just wanted to correct you when you said that Thor missiles were launched from silo's in the UK, they were not, they were stored horizontally on a launch pad covered in a collapsible structure that would be retracted prior to the missile being raised vertically and fuelled prior to launch
@HowP882 жыл бұрын
If electric toothbrushes could fly
@jackandersen12622 жыл бұрын
Note that sometime in all of this the Agena D would have a propellant sump system allowing for main engine restart without ullage.
@cooperthompson48502 жыл бұрын
Finally,The thor video. I've waited so long.
@aliteralpothole92052 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making such great videos about space travel, Scott! Also, this has no relevance to your video, but what were your first opinions on the KSP “Scott Münley” mod?
@rishiparitala882 жыл бұрын
haha
@declan98762 жыл бұрын
that mod has been out for years now
@aliteralpothole92052 жыл бұрын
@@declan9876 I know
@GerardHammond2 жыл бұрын
Lots of great stuff here. A mini deep dive into Thor
@saltynarwhal2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the vids sir!
@sonnyburnett87252 жыл бұрын
Thanks Scott, loved this review of the Thor booster history. You obviously did your homework on this. Awesome video.
@petesheppard17092 жыл бұрын
This was a very nice addition to my knowledge of the early space program (which I followed avidly as a kid). Thanks!!
@OrenTirosh2 жыл бұрын
Whoa! That atlas gimbaling footage is great
@w9gb2 жыл бұрын
I see that you used Ed Kyle’s well-documented history, as story reference !!
@DonJoyce2 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a Thor-o discussion of this rocket family! Well done, Scott!
@kemble99002 жыл бұрын
There's nothing more permanent than temporary
@brothergrimaldus38362 жыл бұрын
Temporary government program....
@TomLeg2 жыл бұрын
Love your cheerful, optimistic shirt!
@BakuganBrawler2112 жыл бұрын
Let’s go! Can’t get enough of older rockets 🚀
@bernieshort63112 жыл бұрын
Good grief Scott, that T shirt you are wearing seems alarming, please could you tell me what it’s about? Your wealth of knowledge is amazing, and you must spend hours researching for these video's. Thanks for this video, stay safe, kind regards from England UK.
@dcy6652 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, well done. Interesting data that allows all the variants to be recognized. Even by people who never connected with Thor missile systems with all these launches.
@jocax1887232 жыл бұрын
I’m convinced ‘Thor Delta’ was chosen because ‘Thor Four’ was too difficult to say quickly
@HuntingTarg2 жыл бұрын
It may have been partly that (phonetic considerations), and partly NASA/USAF wanting to get away from iterating what was originally a US Army designation for a weapon launch vehicle.
@xbarryrs2 жыл бұрын
Is that a TLD shirt you are wearing? Thanks for all of your videos, love from Barry in Fife, Scotland!
@KTo2882 жыл бұрын
the reason we have NASA is that the US Army, US Navy and US Air Force each had their own ballistic missile programs and pet space launch programs. It would seem wasteful but if there was any country with resources to waste it would be the USA and it could be argued that the three competing programs accelerated the development of rocket technology in the US.
@RWBHere2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this brief history of a very famous and pioneering rocket. 🙂
@audiobrian12 жыл бұрын
A great historical account here, to be sure, but what in the world is that t-shirt you’re wearing about, Scott??
@drywinddotnet2 жыл бұрын
Great vid. I would disagree that the Starfish experiment disrupted communications "all around the world". But certainly disruption over a large area is correct. Thor's mythological "boomerang effect" is a good point! ;-)
@kenhelmers26032 жыл бұрын
Wow, quite the history! Thanks Scott :)
@RTomassi2 жыл бұрын
Which is why it is generally frowned upon to use duct tape as a stop gap measure to fix stuff. It ends up being there way too long and might end up being the one thing upon which the ship relies for structural integrity...
@RedSkysAreOnFire2 жыл бұрын
well explains why we had a teacher at school who told us that the apollo rockets were designed to carry nuclear warheads, they obviously heard about the thor rockets put 2 and 2 together but got 5 instead of the right answer.
@jeromethiel43232 жыл бұрын
You're thor!?! I'm so thor i can barely pith! ^-^
@JoeyCarb2 жыл бұрын
The 50's and 60's were wild. I don't think there was a single thing that we didn't try to hit with a nuke.
@blurglide2 жыл бұрын
Thor launching Corona was truly "Operationally responsive space". The curator of the museum that now sits where your video at the 5 minute mark was shot says they could get a tasking and have a Corona on orbit in less than two days.
@zippy51312 жыл бұрын
When I was on 5131 here in the UK, RAF North Luffenham used to be a base of ops and training ground, and there hidden away at the far side of the Airfield were the Thor launch sites still with the concrete covers. That was around 2005 don't know if they are still there.
@scottmanley2 жыл бұрын
The Thor launch sites were concrete pads with Meta sheds that would slide off to uncover the missile.
@zippy51312 жыл бұрын
@@scottmanley Was a few years ago and much whiskey has passed under the bridge, I can not entirley recollect the covers but they were Thor sites as the base was a V bomber base as well.
@RandomTheories2 жыл бұрын
Shoutout to Ed Kyle for all those blueprints 🙂
@osama8102 жыл бұрын
Babe wake up Scott manley uploaded a video
@nneeerrrd2 жыл бұрын
You'll end up sleeping on the sofa for that
@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin13682 жыл бұрын
That's the problem with memes: they have a shelf life.
@davewave19822 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video discussing why rockets are so reliable now compared to how the first rockets always seemed to blow up on launch?
@Br3ttM2 жыл бұрын
It's normal for new technologies to be unreliable until there has been enough time and testing to get them figured out, but hearing some of the specifics would be interesting. I know some of them got a few feet off the pad, then the engine failed, dropping them enough to burst.
@joshuacheung65182 жыл бұрын
Better simulations, more experience, better material science
@olasek79722 жыл бұрын
why - engineers learned from their mistakes
@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin13682 жыл бұрын
SpaceX Starship still exploding. Something about pressurized explosive liquids being shot out of one end of a cylinder that is dangerous.
@strayling12 жыл бұрын
@@olasek7972 It would be interesting to learn what those mistakes were and how they were corrected.
@markbrown44422 жыл бұрын
Greatvideo, thanks Scott
@LongPeter2 жыл бұрын
12:13 "Poppy, Heavy Ferret". Don't know how you managed to gloss over that one 😁
@walter29902 жыл бұрын
Now I can understand a little better, how SpaceX was able to develop such powerful rocket engines so "quickly". So many of the problems of engineering such complex Raptors & Merlin rocket engines, were discovered by thousands of previous rocket engine designs. Sadly, I remember seeing live, several of the "duds", launched from Canaveral in the '60.
@TheEvilmooseofdoom2 жыл бұрын
Everybody builds off those that go before. But the Raptor is a tad more unique in some ways. There is nothing special about the Merlin except that they managed to get so much out of such a small engine but its cycle and fuel etc have been around and done before.
@janmelantu74902 жыл бұрын
@@TheEvilmooseofdoom I think the Merlin was the first major production engine that use pintle injectors, besides the limited run of Apollo LM descent engines.
@IstasPumaNevada2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the world's governmental space programs paved the way for private companies; it likely would have taken a lot longer for private aerospace to take off without that. However, SpaceX seems to be doing a lot better job of developing things quickly and cost-effectively than a lot of the big aerospace companies in modern times. Boeing and ULA and Lockheed and Arianespace and the other big players have had decades to innovate and pursue researching cost-effective fully-reusable rockets, but they never bothered to because they didn't need to. SpaceX's most important contribution is not their specific rockets, but showing that fully reusable stages can (and should) be done.
@Mike-oz4cv2 жыл бұрын
How much of that knowledge and experience is actually publicly accessible?
@LoanwordEggcorn2 жыл бұрын
The secret of SpaceX's (and Tesla's) rapid development is spiral development practices that have both very short design cycles and concurrent development. Spiral development was borrowed from Silicon Valley software development.
@StrykerFox2 жыл бұрын
The only reason why I like Scott Manley is the way he says Space Shuttle. XD
@dalerbsr.50612 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the awesome content, this was a fun escape from the world news!
@avejst2 жыл бұрын
Impressive video as always 👍 Thanks for sharing your expirence with all of us 👍 🙂
@michaelblacktree2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the heady days of rocketry... when satellites recorded images on actual film, and had to return it to the ground.
@68f100ranger2 жыл бұрын
You had to have talked with Jay Prichard at the Vandenberg AFB museum. That's the only place you could have gotten some of this juicy footage.
@jwize3862 жыл бұрын
Whats that T Shirt about?
@765kvline7 ай бұрын
I've always had a lot of respect for the Thor IRBM. This video is evidence to the fact that it was a reliable and evolutionary vehicle of the first order.
@cthellis2 жыл бұрын
Sadly no “Thor Advanced Extensible” variant so we could have gotten THORAX launches.
@StubbyPhillips2 жыл бұрын
"I'm so Thor I can hardly walk."
@rydplrs712 жыл бұрын
There’s nothing more permanent then a temporary solution that works. -Engineering 102
@marshalleubanks24542 жыл бұрын
Good program!
@AlexBakiper2 жыл бұрын
I would count the japanese N-I and N-II rockets also as part of the Thor rocket family, since they were basically made with different parts of Thor and Delta rockets (and also Castor booster) produced under licene by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. So we can add 7 launches (one failure) for the N-I between 1975 and 1982 and 8 launches for the N-II from 1981 to 1987 to the list. Also the H-I had a japanese second stage, but the first stage was form the Thor-ELT (also 9 Castor 2 SRBs). The H-I launched 9 times from 1986 to 1992 before it got replaces with the full indigenous H-II.
@tsechejak75982 жыл бұрын
Mercury dudes were brave as hell agreeing to ride the atlas!
@RobSchofield2 жыл бұрын
Great history!
@slopehoke12772 жыл бұрын
7:17 Ah, so these are the checkerboard-bottomed fuel tanks from Kerbal!
@darkonc22 жыл бұрын
Another example of a quick hack that stuck around for centuries in various forms is the FORTRAN programming language.
@leeterthanyou2 жыл бұрын
Love the Oregon trail shirt!
@marekkozlovsky5862 жыл бұрын
or The Long Dark?
@faceplants22 жыл бұрын
I just came here to ask what that shirt was referencing.
@ghostindamachine2 жыл бұрын
Incredible!
@alexhatfield29872 жыл бұрын
Peerless, fascinating history and assessment of the Thor/Delta series, Scott, ma man.
@novachromatic2 жыл бұрын
That Starfish Test Shot story sounds super cool. You should make a video on it!
@rosswarren4362 жыл бұрын
We fried Telstar 1 (the world's first active communications satellite) with it only 7 months after its launch. Fortunately, by then it had proven the usefulness of comsats.
@RCAvhstape2 жыл бұрын
@@rosswarren436 In those days you were lucky to get 7 months of life out of a satellite to be fair.
@rosswarren4362 жыл бұрын
@@RCAvhstape indeed, but some just kept on ticking. Seems the thermal issues were yet to be solved very well. Or the relatively primitive electronics would succumb to the environment. Just glad it worked and paved the way for all we take for granted now. SpaceX launching yet another heavy comsat to GEO or 46 Starlink satellites goes unnoticed by the majority of people.
@rosswarren4362 жыл бұрын
@@RCAvhstape and thinking about it, it was lucky to have made it into orbit at all. Those upper stages for the Thor were much less reliable. That "Able" didn't live up to its name too many times. Glad the Agena B and D were better.
@stinkyfungus2 жыл бұрын
Early IRL rocketry was so kerbal...
@stinkyfungus2 жыл бұрын
Seriously... "thrust augmented thor" = a reliant on a FL-T800 with a couple of SRB "moar boosterz" attached to it