Walt Disney's Man In Space

"Wheelerguy" (wheelerguy) 09/06/2016 at 20:45 • Filed to: Man In Space, Spacelopnik

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Or why we would have gotten to Ares XIX, Diana XII and a bigger, adjustable artificial gravity-equipped ISS by by now.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Wheelerguy 09/06/2016 at 00:02

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I for sure will have to watch this.

X37.9XXS > Wheelerguy 09/06/2016 at 09:23

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Not enough

or

Wheelerguy > X37.9XXS 09/06/2016 at 09:25

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Nah, there’s just too much bureaucracy and political maneuvering. There’s more than enough money.

Wheelerguy > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 09/06/2016 at 09:26

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I mean, look at them, most of Ze Germans here are probably thinking: “Mein Fuhrer would have wanted to see this”, but they don’t care anymore.

ttyymmnn > Wheelerguy 09/06/2016 at 14:30

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As an armchair historian, I found that to be absolutely fascinating. And equally interesting to me is how much that video shows the payoff of having won WWII. Where would we have been without German scientists? And captured V-2 rockets? I’m sure we would have gotten there, but almost certainly not as quickly. And that atoll they proposed to build the space base on? Likely a prize won in the war with Japan. And the real mind blower for me is that von Braun proposed a reusable space shuttle in 1959, though it was only 22 years until Columbia made its first flight. He also clearly understood the importance of government support and funding, and his 10-year timeframe was spot on, at least for putting a man on the Moon. I also found it interesting that the concept of the space plane still made it look like an atmospheric aircraft, complete with yoke and astral navigation dome. But 10 astronauts on the first flight? I think he had a lot of faith in his testing program.

Try to imagine watching that film as a school kid in 1959. Those proposed rockets weren’t all that far off from what kids would have been reading about in pulp science fiction novels of the day. I wonder how many future aerospace engineers were inspired by such grand thinking (and Cold War budgets) back in that era.

Really great stuff. Thanks so much for sharing.

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 09/06/2016 at 21:04

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Hey, give credit where credit is due! If Sweden did not sell raw materials and provide railway access to the Nazis, then the Allies would have won before the Nazis perfected the V2! Then where would the Americans and Soviets have found rocket scientists?

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > Wheelerguy 09/06/2016 at 23:47

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For a lot of the Nazi scientists it was merely a chance to get to work on their craziest ideas, I would bet a lot of them were not fully committed to the cause and only want the chance to work on advancing science.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ttyymmnn 09/06/2016 at 23:51

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The German rocket scientists were completely baffled the us Yanks hadn’t given Robert Goddard any attention. It took ze Germans using his ideas as weapons before the US military could see the benefit of rockets.

As much as the US is a great nation, I still shake my head that we ignore anything that is new until we can use it to kill people with.

AuthiCooper1300 > ttyymmnn 09/07/2016 at 11:38

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*Paperclip*