Rocket Concept Payload Comparison

4:18 Aldebaran 27000 Tons

[Wayoutthere]

The poor baby rockets being NUKED was amazing, loved it.

[DuesenbergJ]

Still a bit sad that Venture Star never came to fruition. That was the rocket of my childhood.

[lazarus]

Right around the time I saw the Orion I was thinking "Man, the only thing I can think that tops that is the Aldebaran, but that's *really* obscure, no way it'd be included".
And then at around 3:40 I let out a little gasp.

Bravo Haze, Bravo!

[CPS-]

I don't know why, but seeing the tiny man running was really funny to me. Also crazy to see how much tonnage some of these rockets could carry. It could be enough to have an elephant sanctuary for every elephant in the world.

[operationdomination]

The Super Orion Interstellar Ark would have been such a waste! All that and it can't even lift a single elephant to LEO.

[Ligulistylis]

I LOL'd at the ending, magnificent! I consider myself heavily Wikipedia learned on this stuff, but I've never seen a bunch of these... thanks!!!

[Nighthawke]

The Aldebaran Cruiser - That's a lot of peanuts.

Super Orion - Hold my nuke.

[jacksons]

Out of all these, Nova was the closest to coming to fruition. If you've ever wondered why the 3rd stage of the Saturn 5 was the S-IVB, it's because it was to be the 4th stage for Nova.

[DragonSFS]

You should make an Aldebaran animation, it looks like a thicc starship

[tamtamich]

Without words gracefully! The first video about comparing rocket by payload, especially the mass allocated by 5 ton elephants gives me goosebumps!

[TobiasStevens]

Super Orion: 'my goals are beyond your understanding'

[silverfox]

Is Aldebaran a catamaran rocket?! I have never heard of that one!

Also, it's funny to see what wild promises were being made tonnage-wise. There is zero way you could stuff that many tons in most of those designs.

[dogmaticpyrrhonist]

When I saw you'd labelled the 56?foot orion interplanetary, I could tell where this was going to end up. Nice work

[ПурумПумпум-лф]

Thank you for the video! Our grandfathers knew how to dream big! 👍💪

[SeedFactoryProject]

I worked on three of these: SRB-X, Shuttle Derived Vehicle, and Boeing Space Freighter. I worked for Boeing's space systems division in the "new business" group. I also worked on Sea Launch and the Space Station, which flew, and many other concept studies besides conventional rockets.

[Bugatti]

Sea dragon still remains my favorite, the insanity.

[kloc]

I was imagining the nuclear pulse in action and then it happened! Great vid.

[GerardHammond]

Orion Interplanetary 1957 aka the 'wedding cake' was a master piece of hope

[bat]

So, what happened to the little running guy? Was he under the Super Orion when it lit off, or was he crushed by an elephant stampede?

[calimio]

I think the jupiter 3 wasn't up to scale, taking into account the the core used was from a saturn V. Great video by the way. Loved the running astronaut.