Why SpaceX won't propulsively land their Dragon capsule. Not on Earth. Not on Mars.

Why did one of the coolest features of the Dragon Capsule get cancelled? Why are they no longer sending a Dragon Capsule to Mars? We answer this and more!

[erikandersson]

3 years later - today ... SpaceX Finally launched humans to space. Congrats team SpaceX and Elon for your achievement.

[MarkThrimm]

I'm actually excited about this. In the past it always meant that SpaceX had even better idea in mind and now I'm anxious to see what they came up with instead.

[GreyEnfield_CRYSTAL]

Ooohh 2 years later


It's a success bro!!

[philipp]

Your channel is starting to look really professional. Good job

[MarcusHouse]

This was most interesting Tim. Thanks mate. I suspect the two main reasons were due to safety restrictions and propellant weight. Probably pretty difficult to land at an accurate location from orbit, even by SpaceX standards. Suspect they could much more easily return to the ocean with chutes. Still hope they continue with propulsive tech for future stuff though. I suspect the super.d engines will still be there for abort or emergency anyway, probably just with much less fuel. They are not going to remove them entirely from Dragon 2 I wouldn't think are they?

[thestigsamericancousin]

I want to see a falcon heavy land on mars with the main center booster. That would be some Kerbal space program level crap

[ClearAdventure]

I love knowing Elon does not mean "Falcon" when he says Big Falcon Rocket. 😂

[AnonymousFreakYT]

This makes me sad. From an engineering perspective, I understand it, but from a fan of high technology, I'm disappointed.

Also disappointed because a friend of mine worked on the SuperDraco rocket engines!

[xan]

Bravo! This video felt much more professional and serious than the others I have seen and I loved it!

[jackfetzer]

Who is watching this after the demo-2 launch

[tobywoollaston]

I loved that book on how the dragon was born 😂😂
Great video, keep this great content coming!

[Giratina]

The hype is real for the falcon HEAVY!!

[MirekHeikkila]

Awww that was so adorable with the lil egg around 1:00 .. Awesome Channel BTW!! :)

[KreefS]

Wait... he only has 19K subscribers? This is the first video I have seen from this channel and I thought he has well over 500K. Good job on making these videos, I am definitely subscribing!

[GameplayReviewUK]

OMG I had those very same binoculars when I was a kid too :) The little touches make these vids so special.

[joshuapinter]

Great explanation. Really appreciate the deep dive and video. And you're absolutely correct: SpaceX doesn't do anything unless it supports their long-term plans and has no problem re-assessing and changing directions if conditions change.

[TheMyguitarisblue]

As other people have said, your videos are honestly crazy good and I've watched like half of them since yesterday. I genuinely thought that your sub count would be at least 10x as high when I first checked because of the quality of your productions. Keep this up and there's no way that you won't be huge as a Space related content creator.

[passthebutterrobot]

Thanks, I love your videos. I agreed, being flexible & quick on their feet is one of Space-X's greatest strengths. Seeing spaceships land on thrusters is darned cool though.

[Mqrius]

This aged okay for a while, however, today NASA announced that they enable propulsive landing of Dragons as a backup option in case the parachutes fail. Apparently this has already been enabled before but not on NASA missions (presumably on Polaris?)

[dukeofworcestershire]

6:10 When you researched for the presentation but didn't bother practicing