Craziest space projects that actually existed

Giant nuclear spaceships, interplanetary mosquitoes, and space squid robots. Since the dawn of the space age, there have been plenty of crazy projects. Some of them even reached certain stages of realization. In this video, we'll talk about a few of these examples

Stabilized video from the Moon
   • Lunar Rover Follows its Tracks Home: ...  
MOLAB video
   • MOLAB LUNAR VEHICLE  
My video on ion engines
   • Sci-fi engines that became a reality....  
My video on surviving lunar night
   • How to Survive on the ‘Dark Side’ of ...  

00:00 - Intro
01:50 - Lunar projects
06:57 - Interplanetary
13:24 - Nuclear Rockets
18:11 - Orion and Aldebaran

Sources
MALLAR
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-sp...
Open platform
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/2...
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html...
MOLAB
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...
   • MOLAB LUNAR VEHICLE  
Kuck’s Mosquito
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html...
Squid
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/soft-rob...
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/niac-201...
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/soft...
Windbot
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/could-w...
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...
Orion
https://www.ans.org/news/article-1294...
http://www.astronautix.com/o/orionnuc...
http://www.astronautix.com/p/projecto...
https://vehq.com/how-hot-does-a-combu...
Aldebaran
https://armaghplanet.com/the-amazing-...
https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=5353
More info
https://www.sociomix.com/diaries/ente...
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innov...
https://www.vox.com/2015/2/22/8077449...