Chopped B-52 Stratofortress Could Have Carried the Space Shuttle, NASA Said No
27 Jun 2024, 10:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Animation shows two of the proposals for Space Shuttle carriers that were rejected by American space agency NASA back in the 1970s
SpaceX Falcon XX Is the Unborn Sibling of a Rocket That Sent a Car in Space
29 May 2024, 11:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Before the Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy got here, SpaceX was considering all sorts of rockets, including a massive one called Falcon XX
Seven Never-Made Boeing Rocket Concepts Shown in Stunning Video as Starliner Launch Looms
30 Apr 2024, 09:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An animation video shows seven Boeing rocket and spacecraft concepts from the past just as the company is getting ready to launch the Starliner
Saturn MLV Would Have Been the Mother of All Space Rockets, Here It Goes Like It Never Did
15 Apr 2024, 07:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Saturn Modified Launch Vehicle (MLV) was the be a series of rockets meant to succeed the successful rocket of the Apollo program
Never-Made Russian Moon - Mars Rocket Takes Flight for the First Time in Glorious Sim
6 Apr 2024, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A computer animation shows the Soviet Energia Vulkan rocket that was supposed to to reach Earth's orbit, the Moon, and Mars.
Space Rocket Concept That Breathes Air for Extra Thrust Will Knock the Wind Out of You
7 Mar 2024, 23:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new CGI video shows another of the many rocket concepts that never came to be, the Martin-designed Renova airbreathing rocket
Boeing Recoverable Launch Booster Would Have Been the Beauty Queen of Space Rockets
19 Feb 2024, 12:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An animation showing the Boeing Model 832-40 winged double-body booster in action gives us a glimpse of what the world missed out on in space exploration
Soviet Polyblock Rocket Could Have Dropped the Tsar Nuclear Bomb Right on America's Lap
2 Feb 2024, 14:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new animation video imagines the flight of a Russian rocket that never came to be, the Tsar bomb-capable R-56 polublock
This Ugly Russian Space Shoe Could Have Stolen America's Thunder
15 Jan 2024, 14:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Animated video briefly brings back one of the glorious projects of 1960s Russia, the MiG-105 spaceplane that would have competed with the Space Shuttle
Russian-Made Kliper Spaceplane Would Have Looked Like a Penguin Floating in Orbit
6 Dec 2023, 09:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new CGI video breathes life into yet another spacecraft project that was never realized, the Kliper spaceplane imagined in Russia.
Junkers Saenger Rocket-on-a-Sled Looks Like a Ridiculous Way of Launching a Spaceplane
20 Nov 2023, 08:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A long-gone German spaceplane design and its wacky way of launching have been brought to life by means of computer animation.
Fleet of Spaceships Going for the Moon Is How Wernher von Braun Imagined the Future
13 Nov 2023, 11:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new Hazegrayart video shows an animation of spaceships and landers heading for the Moon, as envisioned by German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun
Insane Hydrofoil-Launched Soviet Space Shuttle Comes to Life With CGI
20 Oct 2023, 15:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Like a SpaceX Falcon 9 with wings, the second-stage rocket plane/booster vehicle was engineered to glide back to Earth after deploying the third-stage shuttle.
Crazy Lander Concept Would Have Carried Moon Astronauts on the Outside
10 Oct 2023, 06:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A lunar lander design idea called for unpressurized transport of astronauts to the surface of the Moon, CGI clip gives us a taste of it
Flash Gordon Rocket Ship Imagined as Real-Life Explorer, Visits All Sol's Planets
2 Oct 2023, 07:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Flash Gordon rocket ship predates the flight of the first true rocket by several years, here it is imagined as a real-life planet explorer
Huge Nexus SSTO Rocket Is How America Should Have Looked Like Going to the Heavens
25 Sep 2023, 07:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A CGI video shows for the first time in action the Nexus single-stage-to-orbit rocket, the hardware that could have dwarfed Saturn V
Spacemaster Is the Wacky Shuttle That Might Have Been, CGI Makes It Fly for the First Time
15 Sep 2023, 08:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Martin Marietta Spacemaster was a spaceship design proposed and rejected in the 1960s, it's an aternative take on the Shuttle we know and love
The German SpaceX of the 1970s Imagined This Crazy Pipe-Powered Rocket
29 Aug 2023, 08:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / CGI video shows the crazy concept of a German rocket that used a multitude of fuel-loaded pipes instead of a regular booster
CGI Shows How China's Space Station Looks Like in Orbit
16 Aug 2023, 14:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new video published by space tech specialist Hazegrayart puts the Chinese Tiangong space station into perspective and in virtual orbit.
Project Orion Was a Nuclear Bomb-Powered Starship, Here It Is Going Off in CGI
12 Jun 2023, 11:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Project Orion was meant to create in the 1950s and 1960s a nuclear pulse propulsion spaceship that could one day turn into an interstellar ark