Machines | 5 Incredible Facts About the Orion Spacecraft

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1. I don't think parachutes have anything to do with slowing down from mach 35 to subsonic speeds. The video makes it sound like they are deployed while traveling at mach 35.
2. tell me. am I the only one that has a hard time getting excited about this ship when comparing it to how awesome the shuttle looks? I mean we're talking about something that has wings vs something that is roughly the same shape as a kiss chocolate.
3. This thing won't ever go beyond the moon. You can't send people to other planets in something this small unless they are in some kind of deep coma type hibernation. Imagine being stuck in something like your car seat for 9 months, and oh wtf is that smell buddy?
4. To Mars in such a tiny Capsule? And what is with food, water, oxygen? Or is it for 4 human like robots? Robots in space Suites? 😉
5. 2 decades not 1
6. Im going to be a revolutionary spaceship!!!
7. I see this and think something is wrong with this idea. There is no way 4 guys are going to Mars in this can. The moon maybe , which makes sense, but Mars. No way.
8. Athough there would be problems with the mass of the ship, making the trip longer you can just put a bigger better engine, which there are plenty of choices, all in all i think its the best way to go having a bigger ship
9. People need Bigger reusable ships, sure it'll be expensive Af but the journey will be more comfortable
10. 9 months in a small ship like that to a desolate and lonely planet isnt something to be a exited about
11. So what if there was ever life on Mars?!! Why the fuck do we care??! Shouldn't we solve world hunger rather than this shit?
12. Keep Orion and let SpaceX take care of the heavy lift rocket.
13. Those facts are not all that incredible. Perhaps to a millennial, not to those of us that grew up on this stuff.
14. They will go to mars to rescue Matt ❤️
15. me llevan
16. Sure Nasa's SLS will be the more powerful rocket to date after the Saturn V (hard to beat that thing) and together with the Orion will open for the first time (again after Saturn V) the option to actually send a manned mission to Mars (also to the Moon of course). However there are two problems: it missions will depend on political will (budget) and it will be VERY expensive per launch.
    
    For any mission other than manned Mars the upcoming SpaceX Falcon Heavy will be more efficient (pretty cheap for its capabilities), actually it's powerful enough for even a Moon mission, however not enough for Mars (at least not manned).
    
    So the only rockets capable of a manned lunar mission on the whole world are:
    - SLS
    - Falcon Heavy (may or may not requires 2 launches)
    
    And for Mars SLS will be the only one capable of a manned landing, using a Falcon Heavy could require ~4 launches or more, so that's not going to happen. We can bring up the Long March 9 from China, which will match SLS capabilities, however it remains under study. Just saying because so much people fails to realize we don't even have a rocket for such daring missions.
17. Thank you YouTube for mute button.
18. Hope this travel will be succesful
19. For month in a pace this small. No thanks.
20. NASA making some big plays.