NASA Could Have Been Ahead of SpaceX #shorts

NASA had access to reusable rocket technology almost 20 years before SpaceX landed its first rocket vertically. But why NASA never went through with the DC-X rocket, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #shorts

Music:
Lagom - Ooyy

Footage:
NASA
US Department of Defense

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[destoc]

"Which never took off" tells the whole story.

[rskeyesful]

Delta Clipper was the way to go. Nasa really screwed up on that one. The Agena Rocket motor was Legendary for its dependability and they're still being used today.

[Mujiboy]

And my mom is telling me the Children in Africa will be sad if I don't eat my vegetables?!

[MrGreen]

When he says "30 years ago in the 1990s" I feel old

[rs]

NASA in the 1980 onwards: “No that’s too cheap and will work we should go with the expensive failure instead”

[airliner]

You got my attention when you mentioned NASA refusing to make a 50-million-dollar fix on one spacecraft, then sinking almost a billion into a spaceplane that never took off.

[bazoo]

Finally, somebody remembered DC-X!
BTW, X33 was also abandoned when 95% finished, with only remaining problems with composite fuel tanks.

[micahshapiro]

“Off the shelf parts”. Where are you buying your rocket parts lol?

[cutgras]

"NASA is swamped in buracracy"
Never have truer words been spoken.

[ram]

I still remember when it was shown on the discovery channel..miss those days of those shows..

[willymakeit]

I was there at White Sands several times when the Delta Clipper flew. I was there, and Col. John P. Stapp was standing behind me when the side of the craft blew off, and it still safely landed itself! In 18 months McDonnell Douglas went from a blank computer screen to flying hardware! Damn it, I saw it with my own eyes, the NASA, or the Nation Against Space Advancement,

[duncanmcgee]

I feel like that 20 year shift in the technology put us in a wildly different place

[docsavage]

NASA is the perfect example of the US Government spending.

[toxicrealitymedia]

Thanks for posting this! I'm an x McDonnell Douglas employee of 20yrs and was very disappointed this program didn't go further. People don't believe me when i tell them about this.

[YogiBear-kdyp]

We should give NASA a bigger budget than the army just for one year. I wonder how much progress will be done

[larspossum]

"It's not from us so regardless of a revolutionary invention, we're saying fuck you and letting it die."

[DigitalYojimbo]

"my boy NASA, wasting money like it's 1999"

[Adidas]

Video Correction:
The cause was one of the four landing gear struts had not been connected. The open line failed to support the strut causing the DC-XA to tip over and then explode.

[emersonsrandomvideos]

Aliens must have laughed so loud at NASA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[jtjr]

What people don’t realize is like everywhere else NASA is giant bureaucracy with huge dose of not from here. It’s only very recently they have been forced consider launch vehicles not developed there because there is no budget to develop their own anymore.