TOP 10 Homemade Rockets -2-

[@willamcombs1106]

My favorite was the last one. the student built Rocket. The look of awe and wonder on their faces as launch control is calling out altitude was outstanding.

[@WilliamDye-willdye]

Wouldn't the Copenhagen Suborbitals manned rocket qualify as amateur? They take (and need more) donations, but surely the college projects on this list also solicit donations.

[@Tech_Planet]

Sure! I can include them in the next list.

[@jorgenskyt]

@@Tech_Planet Whau! That would be a nice gesture 🙂 We are working hard to achieve our ultimate goal, but it is HARD - and expensive. Our latest technology demonstrators (The NEXØ Class, named after "Spaceport Nexø" on the beautiful island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea) were great accomplishments. Right now we are building the SPICA Class rocket, 20x more powerful and "man rated". It Is Huge! But don't forget all the rapid growing European student rocket projects! They are moving FAST and through the networking connections, involving ESA and Copenhagen Suborbitals, the Portuguese Space Agency has established a highly successful, early rocket competition for student rockets in Portugal, each October. Search for EuRoc and learn more ;-) Best wishes from (this years) chairman of Copenhagen Suborbitals.

[@ag135i]

Thanks for the informative video maybe small missiles fired from shoulder with the help of launchers are also kind of rockets including ICBMs

[@vendright]

Loved it, thanks for putting this together.

[@Tech_Planet]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@artdodger5053]

Fully sick BRUHHH

[@DuckboyJiden]

The guy hollering who cuts off @5.36 cracks me up 😂

[@ezstopmotion5589]

my friend and I are building a model sugar rocket with a parachute and all. and we 3D printed most of the parts.

[@Spetznatz01]

There’s a guy whose built some water rockets out of 2 liter bottles and although they don’t go as high as most of these, they are massive and super complex. I believe he built one that has multiple stages.

[@jmwoods190]

4:36 Can't wait for someone to build a full-scale flying model of the Mercury Redstone!

[@bcshelby4926]

...the 64' scale Mercury Redstone. was impressive. Back when I was a teenager in the late 60s I built the Estes kit of the Mercury Redstone (the escape tower was made of small wood dowels) Granted it didn't go anywhere near as high (C6 series engine delivering 3# of thrust) Also had their Saturn V Kit which was a shopping 43" tall. (cost an "exorbitant" 19.95$ at the time) that used a triple cluster of C6 series engines with a total thrust of 9#

[@hadleymanmusic]

Made a 3 foot tall 3-D cluster with a 3-D booster and pop off launch lug sounded like it broke the sound barrier. Had a legs egg nosecone camerapod tapered back to a 2 inch rocket body. Never got any good photos cept the sky

[@digit62]

Steve Eves built the large Saturn V . I have no idea who Steve Estes is.

[@craigw.scribner6490]

Google it. You'll be impressed!

[@julienhoffmeyer2597]

Speaker during Redstone launch : Godspeed John Glenn 😂 He flew an Atlas 🤣🤣

[@q300SBB]

I was at the Horizon 3100 foot launch.

[@CIS101]

Very interesting, and totally cool

[@troyjanise9051]

If I remember correctly, #2 the Redstone landed perfectly an it's tail...standing vertical. Or maybe it was a huge Saturn 5 that did it.

[@josephcooksley3219]

Some interesting projects😂😂😂

[@AerospaceRocketry]

Good video

[@AerospaceRocketry]

Please check out some of my launches. 12/4th scale Falcon 9 full scale AMRAAM thx

[@mjproebstle]

John Glenn flew on the Atlas booster… …silly announcer!

[@keanariestalandron4252]

I can't wait to see the first homemade rocket that goes to orbit!

[@pleb1985]

while i am sure that will happen at some point, doing that without a multistage rocket and most likely liquid propulsion systems would be incredibly difficult. not only would it need around 1+ minutes of burn time, it would also need to have attitude adjustment systems other then fins (engine gimballing, reaction wheels or RCS units) . on top of all of that the rocket would need a minimum Dv of ~7500m/s to achieve orbit assuming perfect and near 100% efficient trajectory's.

[@outaandabout4041]

Are you going to show care BPS SPACE landing a rocket vertically

[@ZK_-hs5es]

You guys know at some point it’s not a model anymore right😂😂😂😂😂these things are crazy

[@victormaerovich2]

Awesome...loads of talent 4nasa

[@mkllove]

You missed CSXT who hold the record of 385,968 feet with the GO FAST Rocket, or Copenhagen Suborbitals who plan to fly someone above the Karman Line to 105 km...

[@brettbuck7362]

The proper criterion for "space" is 50 nautical miles, von Karman's calculation puts it at 52 nautical miles. The FAI uses 62 nautical miles but only because it rounds off to 100 kilometers.

[@DAWOL2025-fs1ve]

Interesting how the full flight is never shown. Only the launch. Who knows if it did anything.

[@tango_mango.11560]

My favorite was the red stone, how does some random family build such an accurate 1:1 scale reusable rocket Like that, lol

[@bestamerica]

i have a R/C tonka truck with 12 wheels and MX missile as minuteman X on the top and launch it so beautifully... another 2nd R/C kyosho blizzard and a long trailer with a model rocket launcher, 1 rocket or 2 rockets... already video in my channel

[@kerbalspaceprogramfan]

isnt the thumb nail the black arrow?

[@drbendover7467]

SpaceX will have no red tape at all in about three years:)

[@shawntepitts488]

That's right zhane'

[@Doabubba]

R.I.P MAD MIKE 🚀

[@golljhjkahsdah2817]

good

[@ruthdoyle9085]

Will rocket get more boost if they are fired out of a tube, rather than in the open air?

[@sheerluckholmes5468]

How long do you want the tube to be before the rocket exits into open air plus the back blast would possibly damage the rocket tube.

[@tomzuchowski6590]

The air in the tube in front of the rocket would create a tremendous amount of resistance to forward motion. Remember, that column of air will have to be accelerated to the same speed as the rocket itself.

[@joshorange3087]

what about the V2 ?

[@shannonpace9433]

I liked Salvage I. I mean Andy Griffith built one out of a cement truck!

[@Rigel_Chiokis]

"They'll probably make it to the moon before NASA does." Well, looks like they lost that race!

[@AphexTwinII]

If you came for the thumbnail you will be disappointed.

[@Sir_Ram]

thanks

[@amnobody117]

No!!!! 😭

[@adrianh332]

Thanks you saved me data and time.

[@rexmayn3171]

Agreed.

[@celtisafricana4984]

Nothing dishonest about it. That particular rocket was there... just sadly not a flying model

[@KingKatRider]

If a rocket dont fly its just a waste of space, pardon the pun.

[@fredstevens129]

Why does the voiceover talk that way?

[@alanstevens1296]

So what is the minimum cost for building an amateur rocket with a camera that will reach an altitude of 50 miles?

[@Alysm-Aviation]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoLWdoN7ndZor80 gotta ask that guy just recently sent a home made rocket up

[@spaceflyer]

About 20K with proper insurance, data avionics gear, electronics payload, extra motors.

[@pleb1985]

depending on whether or not you can make your own motors and parts, 2.5-5k i would guess. if you cant build your own parts the other comment has a pretty accurate number

[@alanstevens1296]

@@pleb1985 So a club could fund raise and obtain that much support, I surmise.

[@pleb1985]

@@alanstevens1296yeah it could happen

[@skysurferuk]

3:07 "The virus pandemic controls are lifted.."? What? 🤣🤣🤣

[@panzerofthelake4460]

bruh.

[@robertdemcher8403]

What if they hit a plane

[@Collateralcoffee]

WHY MUSIC?!??!??!

[@TikeWates]

When you can keep the government in check

[@badeugenecops4741]

Click bait thumbnail. You couldn't tell us what height every rocket reached? Lame.

[@michaelgodwin9379]

Not showing them launch or fly or especially crashing would have helped your what’s the word I’m looking for it would’ve got you more views in people would’ve finished the videos if it was more interesting

[@edwardlewandowski5473]

🌹✋🎂

[@TikeWates]

It's my second amendment right

[@SnorkyBlundabus]

I am very disappointed. Most of the rockets featured here are nothing more than very average at best.

[@MrComfyAustralia]

didnt even finish the no1 clip. thumbs down

[@HEALER29382]

Pin me

[@paradiseexpress3639]

This list is so bad... #2 got to 2,100 feet.... #1 got to 340,000 feet...

[@timjones147]

X has better videos with no commercials

[@BotsWeekendCovers]

These are not rockets lol These are domestic missiles?????

[@tomzuchowski6590]

Missiles have targets.

[@javiertorres-bb8lf]

I wish some of these would have kept going. I've seen some reach over 125K feet. You can clearly SEE the earth is flat.

[@DangerousStuffEJP]

I hope your joking

[@pleb1985]

gave me a good laugh. thx lol

[@markbartlett6287]

I loved the "Godspeed, John Glenn" from the announcer when the Mercury/Redstone rocket went up, especially since John Glenn never flew on a Redstone.

[@GreenCurryiykyk]

Yeah, I was thinking "Wasn't the Shepherd?"

[@fuckoffshittube]

@@GreenCurryiykyk Shepherd and Grissom.

[@microfilmer]

@@GreenCurryiykyk or Grissom...

[@DeereX748]

Yeah, I laughed out loud; Sheppard and Grissom were the only two to fly the Redstone. A more appropriate cheer would have been "Light This Candle!!!", which was uttered by Sheppard after lengthy delays of his launch.

[@wtmayhew]

It is such an impressive build that I’m willing to give them a pass on the historical accuracy of the quote. Perhaps they’ll do an Atlas booster for the next build.

[@antonelloguadambino7974]

Last video looks as fake as nasa

[@microfilmer]

John Glenn few in an Atlas, not a Redstone....just sayin...

[@MAZEMIND]

3rd

[@ddegn]

I missed this video when it first came out. It was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for finding all these fun tech projects and sharing them. I thought Peter Sripol's giant 4th of July rocket from a few years back was fun. It didn't go very high though. Project Air also has some fun rocket projects. While the projects I mentioned are fun, I don't think they would really belong on this list.

[@fredstevens129]

5:20 someone says "God speed John Glenn!" Lame. Glenn flew on Mercury Atlas. This was a Mercury Redstone.

[@StevenPine-s8t]

If your shooting them off from America, it's MILES, not kilometers! JS LOL

[@Fetrah2]

Interesting! Keep going

[@RogbodgeVideo]

The Space Oddity rocket looks like the ship from Pigs in Space!

[@reizinhodojogo3956]

at least put the metric translation of the things at the corner

[@lovetofly32]

That last one he said was one of the highest armature flying rockets 🚀... uhhh It went to outer space!!!!!

[@ZK_-hs5es]

You guys know at some point it’s not a model anymore right😂😂😂😂😂these things are crazy

[@abdullahkiram4792]

Did any of the rockets hit the firmament ??? It was written in the bible so we know if true !

[@MaxGreg-he3xz]

Redstone looks like the rocket in the afs

[@millrad]

How far from the launch point did if land? The video shows the beginning of space at around the 1:25 mark. Great stuff.

[@stephenrocks7004]

For steam powered rockets, would it be possible, with all of you very innovative ways to use steam as the first stage exterior mounted solid boosters for A second stage? Which is heavier the steam or the solid rocket boosters.? As an old man, I no longer have the patience to build rockets like I did as a kid The biggest engine we ever had was a D, and it wasn’t sold in California we had to go to Yuma to get it.

[@pleb1985]

more thrust per pound can be achieved though solid rockets over H2O. you would want the srb as stage one

[@domino20]

Wow, now just add your own homemade nuclear warhead and you’ve really got something.

[@jmwoods190]

Well, just build a replica of the Polaris missile and voila!

[@MrBellda]

Nice...

[@matthewkoehler4779]

Cool Bru

[@spbuddhikaspbuddhika8524]

❤❤❤

[@alinajafpour3248]

That water rocket was NOT 3100 ft.

[@techno_zelva5861]

what do you mean by that he said it went to 3100ft

[@marcm4268]

I once hooked a large motor to an arrow as a kid. It had a cork tip and well……it still may be going up. I’m 50 now and it’s been 40 years. 😂.

[@rm25088]

the last one went high but spun like crazy.

[@wtmayhew]

I am pretty sure the spin of the rocket is intentional for the the sake of stabilizing trajectory with a less complex or even no control system - which is perfectly fine if all you want to do is to go on a fixed ballistic arc from where the launch tower is pointed and the payload doesn’t mind being spun. It is similar to the idea of a rifled barrel imparting spin on a bullet for stabilization.

[@rm25088]

@@wtmayhew yeah you're right

[@bgdavenport]

John Glenn went into orbit at the end of an Atlas....Not Redstone....rocket. The only astronaut to fly the Redstone was Alan Shepard.