Comments by "YDDES" (@YDDES) on "Star Wars: The Battle to Build the Next Shuttle" video.

  1. +hijothema The Shuttle was mainly a civilian craft, but the Air Force demanded that it should be able to transport their large spy satellites to orbit. Otherwise,NASA had made the cargo bay smaller. The Air Force built a shuttle launch facility at the Vandenberg base, but it was never used, because the Challenger crashed and the military decided to continue to use their own Titan III expendable rocket instead.
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  2. +monokhem The fastest bomber ever flown, was the XB-70. The military X-20 Dyna Soar and MORL programs were both cancelled before any flight, because of the cost and that much cheaper and more effective unmanned spy satellites were developed.
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  3. ***** Ever heard of the "Soyuz"?...
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  4. ***** Wrong. It wasn't a Soyuz that failed recently.. It was a Progress. All space organisations have had their shares of failures. The Soyuz is still the most reliable manned spacecraft.
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  5. Wheatley Wrong again. They didn't put cosmonauts into untested rockets. The rocket, the R-7, that was used for Vostok, was exactly the same as launched many Sputnik satellites, with a modified upper stage. That rocket also had been used to launch Soviet spy satellites, which were almost exactly the same as the Vostok manned ship, because in those days, they had to retrieve the cameras with the film. The N-1 rockets failure depended on political decisions, forcing Korolev to put Glushkovs engines into his rocket. 30 of them in the first stage, causing catastrophic vibrations. Why change the Soyuz, when it has worked so well? It's constantly upgraded, but the basic design is very sound. The Chinese are now using the same basic configuration for manned spacecraft.
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