From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid We take seatbelts, airbag and ejector seats for granted but in the early days of the jet age the effects of high-speed travel where unknown especially when you had to make a quick exit. One man made it his mission to find a way to protect jet crew and in the…

From Curious Droid. Instead of using rockets, could we use a giant space gun to launch satellites or even spacecraft into orbit?. Sounds crazy but the idea has been researched and tested on several occasions and although it might not be suitable for humans it could be a solution to getting raw materials like fuel,…

From Curious Droid. Strange things are happening in space but the cause is right below our feet. The earth’s core is changing and the magnetic poles could possibly flip in the not too distant future. We are just discovering a whole new hidden weather system in the earth molten core that has direct effects on…

From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Contrails are commonplace in the developed world and have been around for the last 50 plus years, about the same time as we have had rockets launching into space. However, as we have discovered during that time the dangers of burning diesel fuel on the ground in cars and trucks we…

From Curious Droid. With the advent of private and foreign space agencies revisiting the moon probably within the next decade, how will the U.S. and NASA protect the Apollo landing sites from accidental damage and treasure hunters. Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Sponsored by Kosmonaut, Muhammad Tauha Ali, Pascal Hausammann, Florian Hesse. Also Cameron Dyer, Mark Orser,…

From Curious Droid. When NASA was looking for a very large engine for the SLS boosters some of its engineers looked at resurrecting the Rocketdyne F-1 engines but what they found out might well surprise some people and just goes to show how things have moved on since the 1960’s. Patroen : https://www.patreon.com/curiousdroid Patroens :…

From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid If you thought Blue Origin and SpaceX invented vertical landing rockets with the New Shepard and Falcon 9 then think again. We have had vertical take of and landing systems for the best part of 60 years though its really only in the 1990’s that we had a rocket that we…

From Curious Droid. In the days of the space race three men in the Soviet Union led the way creating cutting-edge rockets that would be the match of the US in many ways but for all their genius they were also flawed and bring about almost as many problems for themselves as they fixed. This…

From Curious Droid. The X-33 was the prototype replacement for the Space Shuttle and would feature a range of cutting-edge technologies that would make much cheaper to operate and quicker to turn around with much less personal. Although 95% of the components had been made and delivered and a new flight centre had been built…

From Curious Droid. https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Over 50 years ago an engine was designed that overcame the inherent design inefficiencies of bell-shaped rocket nozzles, but despite much research in the 60’s, 70’s and 90’s and was to power the replacement for the Space Shuttle. But 50 years on and it still yet to be flight tested. So…

From Curious Droid. Many people think that NASA is out of touch and reliant on technology first developed 60 years ago for the Apollo program but is NASA really too slow?. Why does it seem to take decades to do anything these days when we sent men to the moon from scratch in 7 years…

From Curious Droid. In today’s live stream, we will be looking at the end of the universe with theoretical astrophysicist and science writer Ethan Siegel. Along the way we see how the knowledge that we have built up to come up with our best theory about the start of the universe could show us what…

From Curious Droid. SpaceX and Blue Origin may be the latest and most well-known advocates of reusable rockets but they are not the first and in this video we look at some of the other systems that have been designed but not always made to production and some of the latest ones from the likes…

From Curious Droid. In this live stream, we will be looking at USO’s or Unidentified Submerged Objects and what scientific explanations could be behind them. These could also be known as but technically incorrectly underwater UFO’s. These USO’s are objects which have been tracked by the world’s navies since the advent of modern sonar around…

From Curious Droid. What happened to the Ekranoplan, the huge ground effect vehicle the Soviets developed in the cold from the 1960’s to the 1980’s. This was a part plane, part boat that could fly just above the above the sea surface and carry huge loads of personnel or weapons at high speed. We look…