Videos on the history of aerospace technologies.
From Curious Droid. https://www.hover.com/CuriousDroid Whilst the internet has become integral to most people’s lives it was only in 2010 that the International Space Station could use apps like Twitter because the connection speed was so slow. In fact, communication with spacecraft out past mars becomes very slow and problematic. However, in the future, high-speed internet…
From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Ever wondered how we can take those amazing images of the planets from spacecraft and get them back to earth for scientific study and just to see what they really look like. Well in this video we do just that and see how they developed and some of the challenges they…
From Curious Droid. What happens to old spacecraft?. We know when new ones are launched and sometimes when they don’t make it to where they are going but after that, they just seem to go quiet. From the very first man-made object to orbit the earth to the ISS we look at where do they…
From Curious Droid. When the first Spy satellites were put into orbit they were a long way from the type of reconnaissance satellites and even Google Earth that we are used to now and you won’t believe what they did to get the images back to Earth. This is the story of project Corona and…
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. The video that inspired this is here https://youtu.be/RMo7jUs0GMs…
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 The NASA document listing…
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…