The Nazi Space Shuttle

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[bigemugamer]

It's crazy Wernher von Braun was born before the launch of the first liquid fuelled rocket in 1926 and survived beyond the milestone of helping to sucessfully send and return a man to another planetary body in 1969.

[oracleofdelphi]

I believe it might have been a TIFO project where Simon covered Zambia's Space Program. I would love to see that again in Blaze format.

[Sashquatsch]

Very nice. Sanger and Iréne should have gotten more recognition. You've shown images of the X-20 one version with mid wing a german design and another with the wings lowered flat with the fuselage an American idea, afterward all space planes had flat bellies. Sanger knew that his space plane would melt, his wind tunnel tests up to Mach 8 showed that he had not found a solution for fighting heat from air friction.

[pamelamays]

Suggestion: The Soviet Union's version of "Operation Paperclip" in which many German scientists weren't as much recruited as they were literally kidnapped in the middle of the night.

[kirinrias]

as a german my self i always have mixed feelings watching content like this, on one side its horrifying what the nazis did, on the other im kind of proud of the technologies they came up with

[douggaudiosi]

4:30 the first description of a ufo was described as a "saucer skipping across water" just like that aircraft

[AcmeRacing]

Air and Space Smithsonian magazine published a great article about "lifting bodies" in the 1990s. The Shuttles were the most famous application, but extensive work was done before that on flat bottomed craft that generated a bit of lift from the fuselage, with little wing area.

[ThroneOfBhaal]

3:45 Nerd fact: Hermann Oberth, the name sake for the Oberth Class science/supply ships in Star Trek. :)

[allangibson]

The plans for attacks on the United States weren’t to use high explosives - they were to use chemical weapons - like nerve gases (Sarin, Tabun, Soman and Cyclosarin) and fire agents like Chlorine Trifluoride.
The actual attack was in preparation for May 10th 1945 and was aborted by the surrender of Germany on May 9th. The submarine (U-530) detailed for the attack jettisoned its munitions and deck gun in the Atlantic and sailed to Argentina where it surrendered in July 1945.

[cujimmy]

The SR71's fuel was curculated around the aircraft to help cool it down. Am guessing it also cooled the jets/rockets down also.

[LibraLevin]

Thank you for providing entertaining videos I can listen to while I work in the lab. I appreciate it!!!!

[NorceCodine]

It was called the antipodal bomber. The trick is that with the right speed and altitude it would skip across the atmosphere just the right number of times to circle the Earth and so get back to Germany, thereby solving the problem of returning the pilot, for which von Braun had no solution with the A9/10 booster rocket/shuttle combination.

[mikescherrer]

As an American, it's a shame that none of these idea worked out. Think of the Call of Duty set pieces that we missed out on.

[negyt]

Simon. Your beard. Goals. Beard goals.

[jesseallerdings]

Cool, I recently read an alternate history novel by Allen Steele about this project actually being developed and the American countermeasures to it. The title is VS Day.

[databoge]

May you should look at Dr. Sängers project to build 900 A4 rockets for Egypt.

[WeirdWithBeard]

Are there any more configurations of lights and wardrobes that can be turned into a channel in that room?

[NotTheFirstOneToNotice]

The british concept space plane Skylon has got a similar design. Hope they try to build it.

[RobRoss]

So you’re saying Hydra’s airship in the first Captain America movie is real? 🤔

[Jayjay-qeum]

One lasting legacy of the Silverbird design is the "regenerative cooling-regenerative engine" design, in which fuel oxidizer is run in tubes around the engine bell to cool the bell and pressurize the fluid. Almost all modern rocket engines use a similar design.