Launch of worlds largest model rocket (Saturn V)

[Dr Mordrid]

OK NASA, let's see you land one back upright.

VTOL rockets you want 'eh? Well, a NASA test program did it in 1995/

Meet the Delta Clipper -

YouTube video.....

Delta Clipper


NASA canceled it, but the tech is still unded development by Jeff Bezos company Blue Origin as the New Shepard (named after Alan Shepard). It's first flight is in this video, a short hop just to make sure the system worked before it went into a series of very secret tests that continue to this day in various forms -

YouTube video - ground view....

New Shepard - first of a series under very secret testing


and this is a collection of tests by John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, mainly tests of their X-Prize Cup Northrop-Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge prototype autonamous lunar lander's guts. Some are successful, some are less so and some are downright silliness like the rocket powered crane truck , but they are dead serious and could be launching people a lot sooner than more publicised outfits.

The path flown by the lander is the N-G/LLC test sequence: up/hover/translate a few hundred meters/hover/land, and do it twice in a couple of hours. Since this video they have done it successfully several times.

YouTube video - mixed.....

X-Prize Cup lunar lander entries


and what's on the slab in the lab - an LEO launcher that goes into testing very soon

[Nowhere]

Sort of...meh.

I guess for me it's not a model of Saturn V at all.

Does it look like Saturn V? Yup.
Is it dynamically similar to Saturn V? Uhmmm...almost couldn't be further from it (perhaps they should think about igniting its engines in sequence, during flight, so to provide just enough force for liftoff...)

Sort of like I wasn't really impressed by aerobatics made with B-52 model posted here some time ago; totally shatters suspension of disbelief.

[cjolley]

OK NASA, let's see you land one back upright.

[KRSESQ]

Beautiful.

Kevin

[Dr Mordrid]

36 feet tall and 1,600 lbs

YouTube link....

Cool

He needs to take that pup out west to a salt flat and do a multi-stage launch.

THAT, ladies and gentlemen, would be way beyond cool.