Videos on the history of aerospace technologies.
From Curious Droid. Although the Apollo missions had much less computing power than a modern smart-phone the computers used where essential to getting it done Although many think its was the Apollo Guidance Computer or AGC that did everything there was another, the Launch Vehicle Digital Computer or LVDC. This controlled and flew the Saturn…
From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid It 50 years since the first man stepped foot on the moon but to get there a massive new engine was needed the power the Saturn V rocket. The Rocketdyne F-1 would be that new engine but was so unstable it would almost be the downfall of the whole Apollo program.…
From Curious Droid. Get 75% off the NordVPN 3-year deal here: https://nordvpn.com/curiousdroid Coupon code: curiousdroid Solar power will probably be the future of electrical power generation but what happens at night or its bad weather? Well if we move the solar farm and power stations into space we could have solar power 24 hours a…
From Curious Droid. Considering the number of nuclear weapons that have been created since 1945, it is something of a miracle that up to now there hasn’t been a major nuclear explosion involving them, so how safe are nuclear weapons? Patreon https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Paypal.me : https://www.paypal.me/curiousdroid Sponsored by Craig Louis Fleming, Florian Hesse, Peter Barber Also…
From Curious Droid. HAARP is a magnet for the conspiracy theorists who claim it can control the weather, create earthquakes, disrupt worldwide communications and control peoples minds. So how did a research project into the ionosphere turn to this super machine?. In this video, we’ll look at what HAARP really is and why it has…
From Curious Droid. In days of old comets were seen as bringers of doom and bad luck but now we know better. However, landing on one is probably the most difficult operation undertaken by any space agency and almost a guarantee of some sort of bad luck as ESA’s Rosetta / Philae mission found out.…
From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid It wasn’t just the United States that made an atomic bomb in WW2. Five countries had active nuclear programs but the pressure of war, resources and leadership would ultimately determine the winner, this is the story of how the atomic race was won. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid…
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…