Meet the Sea Dragon: The Biggest Rocket Ever Designed

The 1960s were an optimistic time for space exploration - so much so that a team designed a rocket called the Sea Dragon that was big enough to launch an entire space station from the sea in one go! Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880069339.pdf http://www.gravityassist.com/IAF1/Ref.%201-48.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a238697.pdf http://neverworld.net/truax/ http://www.quarkweb.com/foyle/lc-desc/leocheapdesc.html https://sova.si.edu//record/NASM.2016.0008 http://www.astronautix.com/s/seabee.html http://www.astronautix.com/s/seahorse.html https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25915/sea-dragon-history-curious-droid/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/vintagespace/2017/08/11/sea-dragon-biggest-rocket-ever-dreamed/#.XOT135NKgWp https://web.archive.org/web/20050206233144/http://astronautix.com/lvs/searagon.htm http://www.citizensinspace.org/2013/01/historical-note-the-legend-of-the-sea-dragon/ https://thehighfrontier.blog/2016/02/16/sea-dragons-skycycles-the-life-and-rockets-of-bob-truax/ Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Truax.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SeaDragonRocket.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_v_schematic.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SVSD-4.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buzz_Aldrin_by_Neil_Armstrong.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sea-Dragon.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok_8K72K.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comparison_of_Sea_Dragon_to_ITS.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_the_Apollo_9_space_vehicle_on_the_way_from_the_Vehicle_Assembly_Building_to_Pad_A.jpg