From Curious Droid. At a time when the game of nuclear chicken very nearly got out of hand the superpowers continued to test nuclear weapons in space with both surprising and frightening consequences. In this video we look at why we needed to test nukes in space. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Craig…

From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid With the surprise lunar landing of the Chinese Yutu 2 rover and Chang’e lander, I thought it would be good to look at what we have left on the moon and what might happen to them in the future. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Presented by Paul Shillito…

From Curious Droid. NASA’s launch complex 39 was the gateway to the moon and the starting point for every Space Shuttle mission. With the demise of the shuttle and the Constellation program what will happen to the space complex. Here we look at LC-39 and just what it does and how important it was in…

From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Ever since we discovered camouflage the military have been looking to give themselves the ultimate advantage and become invisble. From the Dazzle ships of world war 1 to the adaptive camouflage of today we look at how we tried to make ships planes and tank invisible. This video is sponsored by…

From Curious Droid. If you thought we sent Apollo to the purely to explore the moon and do the science then think again. Apollo was primarily a political tool for Kennedy to use against the Soviets. In this episode, we find out the real reasons why we stopped going to the moon. Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me…

From Curious Droid. As a response to the Soviet threat of a supersonic nuclear bomber, the UK built a combined rocket & jet engined fighter that was on track to become the standard NATO interceptor for Europe. But in a turn of events that would worthy of a cold war espionage novel, it was pushed…

From Curious Droid. The Hubble Space Telescope has given us some of the most amazing views of the universe for 25 years and although it could go on for many years more, things are starting to go wrong but without the shuttle, we have no real way the fix it. But its successor the James…

From Curious Droid. Just before ICBM’s became the de facto delivery system of choice, the US created what could be called the doomsday weapon of the cold war. It was deemed so dangerous that the same government that commissioned it, cancelled it before it went into production. This is the story of Project Pluto and…

From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid We take seatbelts, airbag and ejector seats for granted but in the early days of the jet age the effects of high-speed travel where unknown especially when you had to make a quick exit. One man made it his mission to find a way to protect jet crew and in the…

From Curious Droid. Instead of using rockets, could we use a giant space gun to launch satellites or even spacecraft into orbit?. Sounds crazy but the idea has been researched and tested on several occasions and although it might not be suitable for humans it could be a solution to getting raw materials like fuel,…

From Curious Droid. Strange things are happening in space but the cause is right below our feet. The earth’s core is changing and the magnetic poles could possibly flip in the not too distant future. We are just discovering a whole new hidden weather system in the earth molten core that has direct effects on…

From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Contrails are commonplace in the developed world and have been around for the last 50 plus years, about the same time as we have had rockets launching into space. However, as we have discovered during that time the dangers of burning diesel fuel on the ground in cars and trucks we…

From Curious Droid. With the advent of private and foreign space agencies revisiting the moon probably within the next decade, how will the U.S. and NASA protect the Apollo landing sites from accidental damage and treasure hunters. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Sponsored by Kosmonaut, Muhammad Tauha Ali, Pascal Hausammann, Florian Hesse. Also Cameron Dyer, Mark Orser,…

From Curious Droid. When NASA was looking for a very large engine for the SLS boosters some of its engineers looked at resurrecting the Rocketdyne F-1 engines but what they found out might well surprise some people and just goes to show how things have moved on since the 1960’s. Patroen : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Patroens :…

From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid If you thought Blue Origin and SpaceX invented vertical landing rockets with the New Shepard and Falcon 9 then think again. We have had vertical take of and landing systems for the best part of 60 years though its really only in the 1990’s that we had a rocket that we…