Venture star was the craft i worked on inside Lockheed.Should be in use today , but was scrapped no true answer why.

The Clipper was a great idea and they could have probably flushed out the technology but they gave up.

The Aerospike on the SR71 was a new piece of info for me. 👍

Best ideas and accomplishments usually come from someone’s garage or private business

1998, and theres an F35 3D image on the intro... who wouldve thought it’d take 20 years to develop a fighter? Jeez

1.21 Jiggawatts, 1.21 Jiggawatts!

Lockheed Martin, im my humblest opinion: *should perfect the technology within the UHL Zeppelin project. And, combine with this. If you can lift the rocket, far above the thickest part of the atmosphere, you've cut way down on initial weight, as tons of fuel and it's tanks would not be necessary. A heavy lift Helium, or hydrogen (i know it's explosive, but it has 2x the buoyancy of Helium.) To the upper atmosphere, then launch single stage to orbit.* Just a little idea i had earlier after smoking. 💥💥💥☀️😎☀️💥💥💥

Corruption and Boeing ended this project.

Cancelled just like every other project in the 90s it's a shame because of technology could have worked that was the whole problem they played around forever to they could find a replacement for the space shuttle and what did we do go back to the Apollo style spacecrafts one day they will be another space shuttle we're going to miss that ability to take payload to space and bring it home safely

The number of satellites will increase ten-fold until 2010? Let's see, number of satellites in 1998 (when this documentary came out) was 673, and the number of satellites in 2010 was 997. So yeah, that was bullshit... we're still "only" at about 3000 at 2020, and that's only thanks to SpaceX. We may reach those ~7000 in the coming years though, but again only thanks to SpaceX, and about 15 years later than this documentary shows. If we hadn't SpaceX, Boeing and Co would still tell us "sure, in 10 years we'll be on Mars" or some bullshit like that, instead, Boeing ULA etc are still telling us what SpaceX can't do, while they're doing it ^^ Yeah, good luck with that engine catching on your Vulcan while SpaceX is flying Starships ^^

🤣 VentureStar!! So ambitious! So...strange. My favorite part about the whole thing is that for 'simplicity sake' they used an aerospike and that goofy mobile hangar... Edit 44:03 No, it's not. That would be StarShip's methane chugging full flow staged combustion cycle engine, the Raptor! Can't wait to see it happen!

...and then the 21st century happened...and it all went to shit from there.

Where is Venture Star now?

we have became so apathetic as a country we have no ambition anymore its very sad.

Its so cute how confident and wrong they were about ssto. Although I do have the advantage of 20 years of retrospect...

All pipe dreams that went up in smoke ...lol

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and again elon claim this is his own idea lol ...... like with everything what he copied

Com esse desenho essas aeronaves vão ter sustentação ?

I thought SSTO was dred

Drawing board only and always

Does anyone know if Elon Musk instructed his engineers to make his rocket look exactly like a penis, or if that was accident, or if maybe they did it on purpose as a joke, or what???

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Space Force...

Why are they still talking about Rockets they have anti-gravity flying ships this is ridiculous in a big waste of money taxpayers money to

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This might have been informative in 1999. Today it is total garbage featuring multiple failed projects. Waste of time watching.