U.S. Navy Recovers NASA Orion Space Capsule • EFT-1

[@shaunmartin6767]

I watched Orion in the sky in the UK coming away from the moon on it's orbital return it looked like as star , still amazing what we can do. Respect to all who are involved.

[@zvotaisvfi8678]

I AM NOT INVOLVED WITH THIS GARBAGE EXCEPT HELPING TO FUND IT

[@zvotaisvfi8678]

YOU COULD CALL ME AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, ACTUALLY...

[@cmnieman1]

That craft is truly a work of art.

[@MB.543]

Which one? Serious question.

[@Af_Cloud]

UMM i think the guys on the ship are NPCs

[@Af_Cloud]

the helecopter

[@justanaturalcarguy4031]

@@MB.543 Orion Spacecraft

[@fikrammohune1054]

@@MB.543 jjjh Mm6ýýy

[@frankjaminet7977]

Impressive and awesome. Respect to all those servicemen who put their lives on line in order to have us protected.

[@EmojiJoe]

You know, this isn't about that. That's a spacecraft. They're recovering a NASA space craft. How is that keeping us protected

[@zvotaisvfi8678]

WASTE OF MONEY, YOU MEAN

[@zvotaisvfi8678]

IF I GO JOIN THE NAVY WILL YOU RESPECT ME ?? ? ?? ? ? ? ??

[@micheleys2343]

Cela me remémore apolo tous devant l'écran. Quel chemin depuis. C'est une belle aventure humaine.

[@michaelskywalker3089]

That ship is badass

[@ajitmishra8741]

Proud of you Mr. Camera Man 👍🏻

[@CursedWarrior100]

So glad NASA is still up and running :) We have made some great strides when it comes to space technology.

[@SameoldSheet]

Are you potty trained yet?

[@CursedWarrior100]

datsme that makes no since

[@CursedWarrior100]

datsme sense

[@ppassmore25]

strides, you mean going backwards.

[@Gsloth301]

1869 we are riding horses and buggies, and trains. 1969 we are landing on the moon. Odd

[@DanO530.8]

It was decent weather to tow it in….pretty cool and amazing to do something like this

[@StreuB1]

All those sailors standing along the edge of the ship to watch the recovery of America's next space vehicle was inspiring. #Pride

[@hammerlanebandit1426]

gay

[@hammerlanebandit1426]

Proton2112 😁😁

[@monikakumari9515]

+Hammer Lane Bandit gyh

[@asianbodra1116]

Brian Streufert

[@bikramnayak6618]

Water sound was so relaxing and enjoying.

[@skibididomp]

Indian water is not like that 😂

[@itzgrandtwo3169]

How can guys dislike such historical moment.... shame on you... those who dislike this...

[@gsailajasailaja7034]

Ya ur correct..

[@its_aj251]

the flat earthers, trolls, bots...

[@oscarin13]

Apart from the flat-Earthers, there are a lot of people who don't like the Orion capsule.

[@Vishalkumar-mu5hy]

These dislikers are from Pakistan.

[@Bt26x]

Man that would be so fun recovering a space capsule. What a rush pulling up to the ship at dusk!

[@steve1978ger]

Although Orion shares its basic principles with Apollo, it's not the same at all. It is bigger and a completely new design. Space buffs should look forward and embrace it instead of reminiscing about the Shuttle. We all liked the Shuttle, but it didn't do much that can't be done with conventional rockets, its specs were based on requirements that do not exist anymore, it never lived up to the financial savings it promised, and compared to all other manned space flight systems it had an appalling safety record. For sustained human activity in space, what is needed is a reliable, versatile system with comparatively low operating costs. The Shuttle could never deliver that, Orion just might.

[@Scritley]

steve1978ger An intelligent, attitude-free, polite, extremely well written, grammatically correct comment on utoob... Well done sir, you have made this site a better place!

[@SameoldSheet]

+Scritley He had me too until he said: "Orion just might." What, be a "reliable, versatile system with comparatively low operating costs"? DId ya not notice the only thing that survived was this capsule? Did ya know that approx. 3 humans can fit in a capsule that size, with barely any booty. So what would it be worth to send three people up and down?

[@hijtohema]

+monokhem (" It's going to take people to the dark side of the moon." 'The dark side' doesn't exist. You mean the far side The moon has a day/night cycle. Full moon is day on this side, night on the far side. New moon is night on this side, day on the far side) The Orion will take "us" much further than that. Eventually, if everything goes according to plan, it wil take us to Mars.

[@steve1978ger]

You mean Pink Floyd has been lying to us?!

[@hijtohema]

monokhem There is always _a_ dark side. But because it always changes not _the_ dark side of the moon. If they go to the dark side when it is new moon it means that they will stay on this side of the moon. The same side where the Apollo's landed. They plan to go beyond the far side no matter wether it's dark or light at that time.

[@enoughmonster2886]

Every space video I see so special never get I enough to take in. Even watch it sometimes and listen to music I like imagine me travel the space. New rock and legend rock like deltaparole, foo fighter, nirvana, rush.

[@theamazingfuzzlord]

The open ocean is fucking terrifying. Can you imagine the miles and miles of ocean underneath that guy in the water?

[@billmoran3812]

You only swim on the top. I never could see what the big deal was. I’ve swam many times in open water. It’s beautiful. Nice clear, clean water.

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

@@billmoran3812 You had a large boat with you most likely. An astronaut is wearing a spacesuit that will drag him down and is sitting in a tiny pod that is rocking, tossing, and turning with every little wave because of how top heavy it is. Adrift. Nobody to reach you for hours. Sure, there were no crew on this flight... but still. Imagine what it’d be like for Mercury, where you have to lean out, grab a hook from a helicopter, help the recovery team attach it, and then they fly off with you and your capsule.

[@saftigesfruchtchen456]

imagen working on such a modern vessel to then recover a space capsule. That must be amazing.

[@celestestacy6725]

Good job Navy!, always proud to see our service people working

[@mdshamim2143]

যে

[@zvotaisvfi8678]

GET TO WORK, SLACKERS!!!!

[@carolinacasperc6317]

wow, that is incredible Also, the Navy's ship looks amazing!

[@Horriblebastad]

Huh

[@namikumar4012]

नमी कुमार

[@aleksandarspasojevic368]

@@Horriblebastad .

[@aleksandarspasojevic368]

@@Horriblebastad Il Cursa ã Chiagl

[@Scioneer]

The San Antonio Class is a beautiful ship, especially for a Transport.

[@photosshop]

Beautiful coverage, thank you to sharing this with the world.

[@2150dalek]

Incredible looking Naval vessel. Looks scary to be out in the middle of the ocean and swim to the capsule, brave folks.

[@themechbuilder6171]

worthy of the daleks

[@richardm4857]

That was great! I actually almost felt like I was in the water for a minute there.

[@12treesniper]

That million dollar US Navy Classified Hightech industrial camera noise at 2:07

[@quinnreverance611]

treesniper12 🤣🤣🤣

[@SobboMonkeVR]

hmmm iOS

[@alexisrios2683]

Like the old times. Getting the capsule

[@eleggance]

December 2014 is not that old time.. only 5 years ago

[@alexisrios2683]

@@eleggance We should not go back to capsules, that is what i mean of going back

[@wafflesarecool1]

eleggance he was referring older missions like Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs back in the 60s which were all capsules that landed in the water. After that there was a few Skylab missions and then the Apollo Soyuz test project which was the last time the US had manned capsules that would land and be recovered in the water, After that ended they started work on the space shuttle program which is all we had for about 30 years which landed on a runway

[@Janpeders24]

@@alexisrios2683 we did go back to capsules

[@wubben5279]

I got an advert from Chris Hadfield doing an lecture for MasterClass and honestly that's the best advert I ever got

[@pudelschurwolle]

It's so amazing and fascinating like a beautiful reptile. And the carrier in which the capsule is drawn in - I watched Star Wars this morning, but this is better. Movies should sometimes show more realistic scenes like the swimming capsule in the water with that authentic water sound or the moment when the boats return into the carrier.

[@applechintu5297]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@palasuperamanipalu8540]

OP

[@jeri8853]

Very special day !! Congrats to all who helped!!!!!!

[@fernandharo8497]

Fabuleux périple dans l'espace,maintenant çà à l'air au point,l'atterrissage, c'est du grand Art !

[@manchesterhall5592]

2:08 someone just had to send a photo home.

[@Angel-iq7ou]

Lol, my man must have had the newest water ressistant phone from Samsung. This wasnover 4 years ago!

[@AliRazaelt]

And also American flag not burn

[@cristianflorinluncasu2946]

Absolutely amaizing! Respect from Romania !

[@dwaynejohnson4128]

Hello, I was in the comment section when I came across yours and i was thrilled to say Hello to you.

[@sandgar1001]

I love the water sound.

[@shahid.yousafzai]

Me too

[@vishalvasava7569]

@@shahid.yousafzai me too too

[@poulletkavuvi7451]

Do you wish sometimes that you were born an octopus.

[@w.h.1208]

NASA’s Space Shuttle replacement 👌🏻💯

[@Gung_Ho_Vids]

U.S. Navy divers from USS Anchorage (LPD 23) recover the NASA Orion space capsule after it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on December 5, 2014.

[@橋本絵莉子]

These divers did never such an important job before in their whole life and mostly never will do again. 3:46 the F-Word shame on the U.S. Navy, maybe we civilize them before giving them such important tasks !!! Only joking great job, keep up the good work for humanity.

[@boxingbox5649]

bipola telly its fukushima

[@橋本絵莉子]

bipola telly Huh? I am German. I said they did a good job, I was serious about it. Not only because they did the job right, also they did something very important, much more important then we all can imagine right now, we have to wait for Orions future, then we all will grasp how much important it is. And Fukushima is something very worse, what can happen to every country with atomic power solutions, I lost friends after the 3.11 there, but I am happy we will not have an atomic power solution in Germany in near future they will be all gone :P Hope the USA & Japan would also follow this attitude. So no reasons to make jokes about the Fukushima & the pacific ocean, the soldiers are save there where they are.

[@SparrowHawk183]

Isaac Schmitt I feel I must make a counterpoint to your points on nuclear power. After studying the complexities of energy policy, economic, social, and environmental sustainability in my undergrad years, I have found that there is rarely a simple answer to our current problems of energy needs and environmental impacts. First, environmental damage from radioactive waste leaks is not necessarily geographically or economically limited. Fukushima's disaster released large amounts of radionuclides into the Pacific, and these contaminants are expected to reach U.S. coastlines in 3-5 years via ocean currents (National Geographic Article: @2013). Japanese fisheries have been drastically effected with contaminants as well, causing billions of dollars of losses: trans-regional economic impacts. The Japanese government, as a developed nation, does not have the means of containing the waste, only minimizing damage, and even then not comprehensively. Here in the U.S., as a developed country, we face similar problems. In March 2014, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico (where I live) leaked radioactive materials to the surface. WIPP is located some 2,000 Ft underground in ancient salt beds, and is the only permanent storage facility for low-level nuclear waste in the U.S. (there is currently no permanent storage facility for "hot" waste like spent reactor core rods). The WIPP leak shut down the facility, and a year later cleanup is still inadequate. We do not have adequate means for full recovery after a radioactive leak. (Albuquerque Journal article: @593280). You make a good point about fossil fuels doing permanent global damage, and effecting poorer countries most. If our goal is to only drastically reduce CO2 emissions before the 450 ppm point of no return is reached, then nuclear power may provide a quick-fix. But in the long run, nuclear power is too risky and radioactive waste too damaging over thousands of years to provide a sustainable energy solution. There are alternative ways to reduce CO2 emissions. Our German friend’s country is at the cutting edge of renewable energy policy, research, and implementation. Issues of storage and intermittent supply from wind and solar are indeed problems, but ones that are being solved with hydraulic and synthetic methane gas storage facilities (which are effectively carbon neutral as they can scrub CO2 from the atmosphere. Nature article: www.nature.com/news/renewable-power-germany-s-energy-gamble-1.12755). I just want to stress that these energy challenges are nuanced, and there are always tradeoffs. Nuclear power does supply large amounts of low-carbon energy, but the high risk of catastrophic failure and the unavoidable problems with waste isolation storage makes nuclear power economically, socially, and environmentally unaffordable in the long run. I applaud Germany's Energiewende that, while not perfect, is the proving grounds for the future of renewable energy.

[@SparrowHawk183]

Isaac Schmitt Agreed, and a very good point! Sorry if I came off wrong, I find it a fascinating topic. Thanks for a stimulating conversation!

[@Scritley]

I can't imagine the hardships that our service men and women must go through on a constant basis to keep us safe and I'll be forever grateful... but this has got to be a great day on the job for these sailors! Well done!

[@sak707]

Killing innocent people, they don't show you that part

[@tomatosoupwoo]

@@sak707 brain washed

[@iamshango3005]

Lol good luck out there.

[@DazUK81]

awesome footage thanks for sharing such a epic moment.

[@shujaatali2442]

And wel done us proficional navy

[@westlands703]

Best Navy in the world, bar none.

[@17millionpercocetplease61]

Imagine being some random fish and the fucking Orion spacecraft crashes into the water right next to you

[@Janpeders24]

Uh honey. Something just crashed from space. Fish wife: oh fish frick

[@mrpaulgrimm6129]

Never heard of the Orion project .Is this post space shuttle? Are we going back to a proven design or what?

[@rambunctiousbearguy]

Mr Paul Grimm the Orion spacecraft is designed to take humans beyond low earth orbit and more specifically it is designed to take people back to the moon by 2024

[@joelmonesitblog2834]

Very intresting video👏 good job. Watching from philippines

[@thestudentofficial5483]

Just make sure to check if malicious shapeshifting extraterrestrial is onboard

[@toast6683]

The Student Official not many wil Get that but i did

[@Janpeders24]

@@toast6683 hey can you get me a child

[@gauravsagar988]

nice one ....i am the chief executive of the nasa ....and it is very pleasant to us that .....such types of things also going on in our country (INDIA )....but it is known to aall that beauty. ....is inchant both holder and beholder

[@deltaflyer1997]

The coolest part of this video was that they freakin winched that thing straight into the ship. I love it, rockets were always better than the space shuttle.

[@Grouuumpf]

+monokhem had they not decided to switch 100% for the shuttle and discontinue completely Saturn V, they would have been able to lift all of it up in 5 trips instead of 30+. it would have looked massively different tho, with fewer, waaay larger modules. the shuttle was extra cool, but not nearly as efficient as it should have been, not to mention the safety hazard

[@Grouuumpf]

monokhem the russians built mir without a shuttle, all automatic. could have been done that way, but it wasn't because it was all designed around the shuttle. for the safety concern i wasn't referring to statistics, but more of the design. the way it was done made it more likely to suffer some critical failure, yet there wasn't any way to deal with said failure were they to happen. I like the space shuttle, still like the concept, but it could have been better

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[@kaiusernameisbetter2522]

Who is watching after Nasa anounced the Artemis program?

[@louiswager2629]

really Kool Video, wish they would have shown the Splashdown - two thumbs up

[@Senna-xi1gr]

I need one of those heat tiles for the front of my motorcycle.

[@nancyhobson9710]

Yes, I was just looking and those tiles are in pretty damned good shape even after re entry.

[@Janpeders24]

@@nancyhobson9710 I could get my hands on some silica tiles like the ones one the space shuttle

[@nancyhobson9710]

@@Janpeders24 That's fabulous. Reply to Senna 1993

[@heatshield]

🏍

[@TheRebelOne.]

Great video. It's amazing to see the capsule so close and detailed after its space flight and re entry. Normally we would see a news clip 500 meters away from it in a helicopter. Good job.👍

[@zvotaisvfi8678]

WORTH THE EXPENSE I AGREE (NOT)

[@betocabrer3239]

Excelente!que buen video,y que bueno saber y ver cómo se hacen estos rescates de las cápsulas espaciales,cuántos recursos tecnológicos!

[@prateeshgautam1971]

How this capsule keep floating over water 🌊

[@mytubedude532]

Look how far we have come in 45 years...we can now land a capsule in the ocean and retrieve it! Nice job NASA!

[@TNTHammer]

It simply wasn't a "dump and retrieve" mission. This thing came back from orbit, but also from a very hot re entry, and it gave lots of important data on NASAs newest capsule

[@josemiloatis3714]

Thanks their safe back to earth... 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[@saddambff7285]

Great job. Any one Oct 2019

[@dontplaywitfye]

yess sirrr

[@ilosesomuch]

Mi

[@RRswag70]

Saddam Hussein?!?

[@kartikeypatel7426]

Well information. Good show.

[@reginaldo0460]

Parabéns aos Norte Americanos pelo excelente trabalho de pesquisa espacial..

[@TheBlackstag1]

that was wicked cool man

[@MarcosSRAD1000]

this make me want to play Kerbal Space Program again

[@commandertard3803]

Same haha

[@eltondroid]

That was awesome! Way to go boys!

[@aaryapatil4093]

Sound of water😍

[@sagorakib8781]

Very beautiful sea, they doing their job very smartly

[@dharbendarkumar6416]

Eyeurituihhdhsygh

[@scottwolf1131]

Great, we've built a slightly larger version of the Apollo Command Module, 55 years after NASA awarded North American Aviation the contract for the above mentioned.

[@scottwolf1131]

It's a bit larger, the electronics, vastly miniaturized, but still splashes down awaiting pick up by Naval recovery. Pathetic,in an era of post lifting body designs. I admit my bias, I prefer the Dream Chaser.

[@scottwolf1131]

Yes, land at a facility to quickly turn it around for another mission, whereas the Apollo/Orion technique will require ocean transport, and then refurbishing for another flight.

[@scottwolf1131]

Totally agree.

[@วินัยพุทธรุร]

+Chuck Norris ฝ

[@kidpog3d101]

Scott Wolf us gvnmt fault cutting budgets

[@videoua5]

Thank you, always interesting videos!

[@3800TURBO]

I find it amazing that since the 1960s odd the design is still rather the same. Obviously with some new technology added but I was wondering if a new aproach may be taken. Guess not.

[@titanium7012]

Not needed, the approach taken is determined by physics

[@russellh8702]

What kind of design do you expect genius?

[@bermuda333]

@@russellh8702 Chill tf out, god damn.

[@AHHHHHHHH21]

Cant wait to see this on the SLS

[@sladeuselton]

I would like to have one of those awesome reflective heat tiles.

[@osamabinladen824]

How much would it cost?

[@Horriblebastad]

Why

[@wh5321]

Go to work with nasa

[@yogidemis8513]

We probably couldn't afford one.

[@iftikharahmedchanna5552]

May you reach the extents of universe ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@17millionpercocetplease61]

It looks like my bluetooth speaker

[@cosmintunea4735]

This is so cool!

[@QNFee]

those tiny white leters we see on the capsule is that some heat resistant paint ? and do you know what material that flag is. and i dont see the parachute

[@JaredB47]

I suppose the letters would be heat-resistant. The flag is the same material as the rest of the craft, you can see it's made out of the same individual tiles. The parachute is automatically cut once it has touched down.

[@KodenameKrusty]

What a great ship to be stationed on. Great Job Navy!

[@ronettreker]

3:29 That guy has a frog instead of a camera on his helmet. Just to let you know.

[@SameoldSheet]

+ronettreker HaHa... I had to look at it 3 times.

[@ronettreker]

+ronettreker Did some research on Google...apparently that frog is the US Navy Underwater Demolition Team mascot.

[@15Med3]

fun fact....frogman were used to recover apollo astronauts

[@HawkeyeNation19]

And Frogmen are Navy Seals.

[@williamtomlin5754]

ronettrek

[@Justin_Martin]

Orion spacecraft is awesome 🇺🇸👑💕

[@thebenandfridayshow]

This is cool

[@therubicon]

Cool video and all but why am I not seeing Orion towed onto the ship?

[@howtomake01]

Awesome👌👌

[@raghavendramupparthy7950]

Wow, that's great! I never knew that the capsule would be towed to the mother ship from the base to recover the astronauts and the vessel. Nice.

[@martythemartian99]

At 1:00 it looks like Mickey Mouse - Disney should pay NASA for the publicity.

[@veerasamynatarajan694]

Excellent team work. Kudos

[@insideman6759]

Back to splashdown recovery seems we are going retrograde back to the 1960`s :(

[@jshepard152]

Inside Man You'd rather fly a spacecraft that randomly throws its crew into the Atlantic or spreads them all over East Texas?

[@shanupandey2689]

Really great work ❣️

[@djscy5856]

Is the Orion capsule bigger than the Apollo capsule?

[@IneptOrange]

+DJ SCY About 25% bigger.

[@didiermejia780]

EFT1 was design to test the new heat shields that will be going on Orion.

[@goo_90]

More like the ‘onion capsule’

[@iinRez]

What a line of work!!

[@Dan0__]

Is the Orion Capsule reusable?

[@YDDES]

Yes.

[@valentinotera3244]

Good question Dan.

[@vincent7520]

Drawing the capsule into the boat's vault makes it a James Bond scene !…

[@antonyjikku2519]

Who is here after crew dragon touch down ?

[@true1success1story]

I’m trying to see how “fast” the fast boats really are... 😂

[@Lofi_love419]

VERY NICE VIDEO

[@AndieBlack13]

Note the burn mark center screen at 2:11 taking the spacecraft back to the technicians who built it, they will be going over every square millimeter, top to bottom to make a performance evaluation. Say hello to our newest spacecraft! The bigger question is, is this spacecraft serviceable, can it be used again. The Apollo spacecraft were a one-shot machine., the heat-shields were of an ablative (Melt away) design. Being that they are using heat tiles similar to the old shuttles, it would seem these machines are considerably more durable.

[@EricIrl]

Only the sides of the capsule were covered with Shuttle type tiles. The actual heat shield on the base was a plain old Apollo style ablative shield. The shield itself cannot be used again, but it is detachable and can be replaced so the capsule can be reused. Despite that, NASA is still looking at a different design for the main heatshield because of the man hours required to make an Apollo style shield.

[@MuitoDaora]

EricIrl Can not the tiles support the heat from reentry?

[@AndieBlack13]

MuitoDaora I would surmise the re-entry profile would be rather different between the old Shuttle & these capsule style spacecraft. No doubt un-manned craft would again have a different profile (Trajectory) as the G-Loads could exceed that of a Human tolerance, but there still is the heating profile of the craft to consider. A "steep" flight-path no doubt would exceed the temperature AND G-Load capabilities of even the un-manned crafts, both crushing the machine and burning it up to a cinder.

[@rewtdawg9852]

I'm super confused why only one of these divers had a snorkel lol

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

I am kind of confused. NASA currently has three manned spacecraft in development. Two of which have successfully flown unmanned. Orion and Dragon. Why do they need the Boeing capsule that has not even flown unmanned yet? For that matter why do they need Orion? Dragon is designed to carry seven astronauts on long duration missions, has a heat shield meant to survive Mars re-entry velocities, and has not only flown unmanned but has made several successful resupply runs to the International Space Station. Maybe instead of working on three different capsules, they should work with SpaceX to get the one that is actually working manned and beyond earth orbit. Same crew capacity, same potential for lunar and martian missions, the later of which might even prove we were not alone. Even if it they only find microbial life, it is conclusive proof that life of some sort did exist beyond the Earth. We just need to get some scientists up there and find out once and for all. And who knows, with all the water they keep finding on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, there may still be life beyond the earth in this solar system. We'll never know till trained professionals with special equipment actually get there.

[@paulburrell7058]

Joshua Plotkin You’re a moron

[@MrMarco7259]

@@paulburrell7058 , I know this is old but, he's a moron!

[@rajneeshkumar6792]

Amazing picture ❤️❤️

[@TheFiscallySound]

WOW .. NASA has really advanced manned spaceflight! Mercury in the 60's was recovered this way .. and so were Gemini and Apollo! I bet some young NASA scientist came up with this idea! Sigh

[@TheFiscallySound]

+Rory Irwin Following your logic the wright brother's first short airplane flight would never have advanced to the point where the modern jet is taking off on a runway, flying thousands of miles carrying people and cargo and landing on another runway to be used over again and again. You missed my point entirely!

[@Gung_Ho_Vids]

***** But does it not take time?... the Wright Brothers flew in 1905. Over a hundred years ago. Give the space program the same grace... it's not a video game.

[@TheFiscallySound]

+Gung Ho Vids My God! We are in trouble! The first fixed wing scheduled air service was started on January 1, 1914 from St. Petersburg, Florida to Tampa, Florida. This was only 9 years after the wright brother's flight. NASA has been struggling with Manned Space flight since the 60's and after all of these years it is struggling in developing an "Apollo on Steroids". Well .. the private sector is ramping up in space launch vehicles and spacecraft and will pass NASA by as it launches the first manned Orion .. sometimes in the 2020's

[@wyatttremain7880]

+TheFiscallySound That is true but nasa has a very tight budget to do it with. The companies have a greater amount of money to throw at the program while nasa gets like 150mil a year. Elon Musk has a net worth of 13 Billion now

[@Paleoguy356]

+TheFiscallySound Right because the public is giving so much support to NASA. No one knows how NASA could help regular people. Furthermore you seriously think making a rocket to go to space is as simple as making an airplane? I'm not trying to be rude just saying.

[@tsrgames5669]

That looks really relaxing to just sit inside the ship in the water and watch the suns set

[@urvashirani7]

wow navy😍

[@alexanderx33]

So the entire return capsule is heatshielded. That's cool and expenive looking. Whole thing looks like a darth vader mask.

[@SameoldSheet]

All this dumb water training exercise--Russia land on dirt! Open capsule door, cosmonaut jump out, drink vodka, eat, nap, get in boat, wait for American capsule.

[@paulzuk1468]

+datsme Land landings heavily limit the choice of landing sites and return payloads. The Orion capsule itself is not only heavier than the entire Soyuz stack (orbital module, return module and service module + fuel), but it will also be expected to perform return re-entry from the Moon and interplanetary trajectories ; So why complicate re-entry targeting more than it already is?

[@SameoldSheet]

+Paul Zuk Imagine how many good astronauts will reject a refurbished space vehicle. How many families are we supporting from the shuttle? what is more important than finding water on Mars? ***A: Making saltwater drinkable worldwide; free healthcare and dental in usa. Free 2-3 college, free wireless pacific to atlantic, and an Asian president.

[@paulzuk1468]

datsme I literally have no idea what it is that you just said

[@markroeder2491]

+datsme Crazy Socialist Zipper head!

[@jakob8371]

Just wait for the dragon V2 spacecraft and you'll be satisfied

[@bravo_01]

Here after Artemis 1 splashdown, 2022

[@muthoniwanjiru6186]

Orion's shape reminds me of R2D2's head

[@AstronomyVIDSVaasu]

lol; (

[@milolouis]

That water looks lovely

[@apache1120]

Dont you hate when you fly to your destination and the ground crew is taking a long time to open the airplane door?

[@Janpeders24]

That is a uncrewed test flight