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Soviet Rocket Engines
Soviet rocket engines - this article is about their history, their development, their use and their rockets.
Starbase Tour and Interview with Elon Musk
Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut, interviewed Elon Musk about Starship, its development, Raptor, Starbase, and Musk's engineering philosophy.
New Shepard VS SpaceShipTwo
Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic will enter the commercial spaceflight sector at virtually the same time with New Shepard and SpaceShipTwo.
The King Of Small Sat Launchers – A Comparison
As the components required to build a satellite have gotten smaller, a new market has been born: small sat launchers! Let's compare!
Starship and its Belly Flop Maneuver
Starship's belly flop maneuver consists of topics like terminal velocity, gravity drag, or thrust to weight ratio, so it lands vertically.
The Definitive Guide To Starship: Starship vs Falcon 9, what’s new and improved?
Starship poses the ultimate challenge in aerospace engineering: a fully and rapidly reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle, capable of taking 150 tonnes to low Earth orbit. That’s more payload than the Saturn V, and it’ll be fully reusable!
Artemis VS Apollo – Will Artemis actually be sustainable?
The Artemis Program - NASA is working hard on getting humans back to the surface of the Moon. If all goes well, this could happen in 2024!
How do you get back to Earth from Orbit? How NASA astronauts Bob and Doug get home.
How do you get back from orbit? Do you pump the brakes and fall right out of space? We do a summary of how you deorbit, go over the hardware that allows the Crew Dragon capsule to reenter and safely splashdown.
Perseverance VS Curiosity – What’s New?
We do an overview of NASA's Perseverance Rover (formerly Mars 2020), the rocket that will take it there, the timeline, and the landing sequence. All the while, drawing comparison to its older sibling, Curiosity, to see what’s changed and what has stayed the same.
Crew Dragon Launch Day Timeline: From Suit Up to Docking with the ISS
A timeline video that follows Bob and Doug from suit-up, transport to the launch site, entering the Dragon, fuelling, launch, and docking with the International Space Station. Weather scrub criteria is also included.