(181) NASA’s INSANE plan to launch 86 astronauts at once - The Passenger Space Shuttle That Almost Existed - YouTube

Become smarter in 5 minutes by signing up for free today: - Thanks to Morning Brew for sponsoring today’s video. Website: Discord: BUSINESS INQUIRES: Jared@ In the 1970s, the USA was planning vast network of solar power stations, or SPS, to wean the country off oil and avoid using nuclear power. These stations would have been huge and required vast lifting spaceplanes like the Boeing space freighter or the Star Raker to get materials into orbit. But hold on, There was an essential component of the SPS program that we skipped over - that the star raker for all its glory was actually not designed to carry passengers. that these gigantic SPSs in orbit 300 nautical miles above the earth would in fact require a huge workforce of zero g workers as well - but how would they get there? That role would fall on a different spacecraft entirely. Essentially, a passenger