NASA Destination Tomorrow - Lifting Bodies

Short 5 minute segment on Dale Reed, a NASA Research Engineer who pioneered the lifting body projects. Interesting segment on how Dale fought to get his voice heard and the value of the lifting body concept proven to NASA leadership. The result was the M2-F1 a wingless lifting body that was prove to be a design that concepts for future reusable spacecraft would employ including the Space Shuttle. Great story of how Dale used ingenuity and r/c mockup models in 1962 to get the program off the ground.

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[highlander2107]

Anyone who brings up the Buran, show them this video. Buran is copied technology. Nothing more.

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@WC3POchannel10A NASA: Never A Straight Answer I appreciate you response,my friend! I will send you a video of my work- Jets&Turbines,not rockets. Google has a $30M prize for the first private team to get to the Moon. We just have to get there- no return or payload required,as I understand it. Are you in? Dream BIG!

[WC3POchannel10A]

@jetpoweredgriffin Ha! Yeah. Or...... Steve Austin, lifting body pilot for OSI. Every week gliding into bad guy territory in is mach speed machine. Oh, I was also there for the X-33. Great concept, Lockheed just could not pull off the engine technology for that thing.

[WC3POchannel10A]

@jetpoweredgriffin When I was at Dryden in the 90's. We were working with JSC to get the X-38 going. Stupidity cancelled the X-38! Who knows? If the X-38 had gone into production and modified to fly on a booster. We could have had a simple replacement for the Shuttle in getting astronauts to and from the ISS. Now, we rely on the Russians to get Americans in space. It's so sad. Do you have Dale's book? I'm sorry he did not live to see a lifting body as an every day operation space system.

[jetpoweredgriffin]

Part 2

They really DID take it and,

"Re-build it...

made it better than it was before....

BETTER....

STRONGER...

FASTER!"

They should have made a show about this era instead of one about cyborgs...

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@WC

I totally agree with you.

Men like this inspire me.

It is the man with The Dream who will not give up that changes history for the better!

Dale was very generous and humble in how he relates the story.

I was not there at Dryden like you but from what I heard

those who opposed were rather obnoxious about it.

Dale&Co. went on to solve the stability problem after the "experts" left it as trash for them to clean up.

THE COOLEST PART is that they really did what the $6M Man pretended to do...

[jetpoweredgriffin]

@19thSFGA

This is about making history,

not fashion statements.

[WC3POchannel10A]

Thanks for posting this. I had the honor of knowing and working with Dale Reed at NASA Dryden. I named a playlist in his honor here on my YouTube page. This video will go at the top of that page so that visitors will know who this great scientist was. Though there is so much more than shown here.