The Very First Rocket Ship - `1950s Von Braun

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This is just the first in many on Von Braun's rocket designs and other space craft, so buckle down and prepare to stay a while :)

In 1955, Disney aired a special called Man In Space - In it Von Braun showed off what was to be, the then, future of space travel, with the ferry rocket being front and center.

but did you know that this rocket was actually DUMBED DOWN by disney?

Thats right, as imaginative as the house of the mouse might be in the world of fantasy - they actually hid Von Brauns original rocket vision.

A rocket of insane propotions, that was so tall and collosal that it looks like its right out of the war of the worlds - from the martian side
i know that the Martians didn't actually use rockets depending on which version you read but its a good imagery

A fleet of ten would be built to construct a orbitial platform for a 50 man moon base, with escape pods on the side and the ability to be reused within a week of landing.

Today on Escape Velocity, we will examine the original von braun spacecraft, with no other name, than the very first - Rocket Ship

Wernher Von Braun was a very controversial figure, but one who undoubtedly saw humanities future among the stars

and was willing to help develop technology to get there -

even if the initial rockets would be aimed at Moscow rather than the moon.

Formally a nazi in name and creator of the V2, his work on rockets during the war secured him a role as the defacto leader ofg the US amrys missile program.

With his new found source of funds and celebrity status, he pushed for more civil applications of his rockets, and to turn what was mostly science fiction into near future reality.

In a 1952 article in Colliers Magazine, he outlined an ambitious timetable for mans future in space.

It featured milestones such as the construction of a rotating space station by 1967,

large space going freighters to head to the moon by 1977,

and a moon base with 50 personnel by the same year,

with the trip to mars to follow.

Truely ambitious and will be the focus of future videos on this channel - so hit that subscribe button if you want to hang around for that.

All of these plans relied on a reusable launch vehicle, a space craft that could do multiple trips consistently and reliably,

and be far larger than anything the Americans had seen before. And remember, this is 1952 and 1953 - almost a decade before the saturn V would be built. And this would be far bigger in almost every way.

And boy did it look good.

It was called simply - the rocket ship. It did have some simulartiy to previouis designs by Von Braun, such as the A-11 and A-12, and had appeared in some publications before hand, but this version was the pinnicle of his design career.