reliant space shuttle

[kiuhy8]

nice

[kanov]

As far as i'm concerned...i think that actually worked...how could some men with some quite low budget, from a comedic tv show and a university made a rocket attached to a very unaerodynamic robin went up straight to the sky, perfectly vertical...amazing

[teencomment]

This is such an epic fail, but at least it's hilarious.

[matdur2000]

ha ha i wonder how much money nasa spent to get that far

[DragonCuber]

A teacher at my school actually worked on this project xD

[rephilb]

@DragonCuber Wow. what part of the project was he involved with? i always wondered how realistic the portrayal was?

[DragonCuber]

@rephilb He was sketchy with the details but I think it was more the theory / calculation / design side to the project. Not sure how much of the project he helped build. He also did work on the Blue Peter Rocket and other work on professional rockets and satellites (JPEX rocket mainly).

[Lowneification]

@DragonCuber omg so was my teacher :O

[twork4]

The fuel vapour in the empty tank would have caused the explosion. It's not fake.

[FLIPPERKUNST]

@twork4 indeed! it is a fact it should explode, otherwise everything else would have been fake if we couldn't see an explosion

[rephilb]

@FLIPPERKUNST indeed!

[afrokidda]

i like the name steve :L

[bboyjtek]

England can't space

[MrMorg19]

@bboyjtek Except for when they build nasa's satellites

[Alembic25]

Where was the launch done? Spadeadam?

[SlowPuncture]

...is the music at the end from the Italian Job or James Bond or something like that, any one know?

[ApproachWithCaution]

Hammonds expression xD

[SlowPuncture]

......in fact I have just looked at the footage again and you can see that the explosion is added later, just before it crashes the foreground is light green short grass, as it explodes it is dark green bracken, shame they had to do that but hey... it is TV I guess.

[rephilb]

well it's a bit disappointing they felt they had to embellish what is an otherwise awesome bit of television. thanks for pointing it out thought.

[EdTwoOhNine]

@SlowPuncture: Watch it again. The light-green grass is in the background, you can't see the dark-green bracken before the explosion because it is in the foreground and the camera is still (tracking? panning?) down towards it *before* the detonation. There's a shot just after from a distance showing the bracken and it's surround grass.

[sogish]

@SlowPuncture I don't see what you're talking about; looks real to me. the camera just jerks a bit, that's all.

[SlowPuncture]

brilliant! I love top gear!! but one thing is nagging at me, why did it explode on impact, from the looks of it the fuel had all been burnt so therefore no explosion should have happened - was it edited in to make a more interesting conclusion?

[mbHotdog]

Best Top Gear episode

[rephilb]

what blows me away is it was almost worked. one bolt away from success. man those guys have some of the best jobs in the world.

[gavinsinleton]

that was frickin amazing

TOP GEAR RULES!!!!!!

[sheaanton1]

dat was soo funny

check out da game of dat too on da top gear website

[Killwizz61]

i laughed so hard when i first saw this one

[Evildancindude]

cool!

[mjh0055]

This was one of their best shows - thanks for the upload

Cheers