A History Of Reused Spacecraft

SpaceX are getting to reuse a Dragon Capsule for their latest delivery to the ISS, this is the latest in a small number of spacecraft which have visited space on more than one occasion.

[seaweed]

Возвращаемый Аппарат(voz-vra-shcha-ye-miy apparat) - it basically translates to "returnable device"

[oalessandroo]

"They need a hatch through the heat shield" must one of the scariest sentences an astronaut has ever heard.

[TheBostonDangler]

my favorite reused space hardware:
john glenn

[macdjord]

Weird. Just 4 years ago, SpaceX reusing parts of their spacecraft was *news.* Now it's news when they *fail* to recover something.

[Jacob-bioq]

Hey Scott, What rocket had the most stages in history?

[detaildr]

NASA : "You can't use reuseable spacecraft! That wasn't part of the deal!"

Space X: "I'm altering the deal, pray I don't alter it again!"

[_PV]

Sadly, Buran can't be in this list.

[kurtkoben]

Next video should be Rocket designs that only flew once

[paulfigueiredo]

I wonder what is in Scott Manley's rather impressive vinyl collection.

[pavelZhd]

Oh yes. You did butcher the Russian word.
And fun fact:
This word actually means "Return Vehicle". Essintially this classification was used for anything that was supposed to survive reentry and landing. And it didn't have any connotation for being reusable.
Also Soyuz (which was only ever used as Return Vehicle) got into a different classification - Space Ship, because it was intended to be used on Lunar missions...

[junovzla]

4:06 "they were flown on top of the other" that's the most kerbal thing i've ever heard

[NikopolAU]

3:45
It was so bad, that involuntary clenching of my teeth destroyed my coffee mug.

[maxwellmondo]

171st
last time i was this early, the Space Shuttle was still being used.

[sheepmasterrace]

My kindergarten teacher thought the space shuttle landed in the ocean. She was teaching the class this, when I said wait a minute. They land on runways, don't they? After arguing a bit, i persuaded her to search a video of a space shuttle landing. In the video, the space shuttle landed at a runway, at cape canveral. What a stupid teacher.

[gkossatzgmxde]

The A5 was a scaled-down test model of the A4 which replaced the former unsuccessful A3 in this role. It was flown from 1938 to 1942, and played a vital role in testing the aerodynamics and technology of the A4. Its rocket engine was identical to the A3, with a new control system and a shape similar to the A4. 25 were launched, some several times; it was fitted with a parachute recovery system and could float for up to two hours before sinking to allow recovery by boat. Variants were constructed both with no propulsion system and monopropellant engines for air drop testing.

[duploman]

"...But whilst they were still experimenting with landing..." *carnage*

[EstorilEm]

My god how much has changed in three years (a split second in space travel) - we have now reused a HUMAN-rated capsule vehicle, powered by a reused launch vehicle (multiple times) and made it look boring in the process. Oh yeah, and by a completely privately owned commercial entity. 😳

When you plot that out on a graph, space-x getting selected for the lunar lander isnt so ridiculous in the slightest.

[thehoodedteddy]

That astronaut holding up the for sale sign made me laugh way too hard.

[listerdave]

We often talk of the Space Shuttle having been extremely expensive to fly but somehow it was still the cheapest way to get people to and from the ISS, or indeed into any orbit. Currently it is costing the US some 90 million dollars for a trip on the Soyuz whilst the shuttle would carry seven people for less than $500 million, that is less than 80 million per person. Not only that, but in addition to the 7 people it would also carry some twenty or so tons of cargo.
Also worth noting that despite deciding that the Space Shuttle was to expensive to operate they are still paying ULA almost as much as a shuttle flight for putting 25 tons into LEO, something which will hopefully end if/when the Falcon Heavy goes into service.

[Gameslinx]

Learn something every day. Thanks scott :)