What happened to Sea Dragon rocket?

What happened to Sea Dragon rocket?

Sea Dragon 17 was an unmanned resupply mission to the Jamestown Moon base using the Sea Dragon rocket. The rocket was carrying nuclear weapons (allegedly), to be used against the Soviets. It was destroyed by missiles fired by Edward Baldwin from the Pathfinder in orbit around the Moon.

Is the Sea Dragon possible?

The Sea Dragon never flew in real-life history. As conceived, Sea Dragon would have consisted of two stages. It would have been around 400 feet tall, 75 feet in diameter at its widest point, and it would have weighed 40 million pounds. It would have been capable of putting 550 metric tons into low Earth orbit.

Is the Sea Dragon rocket a real thing?

It turns out that the rocket was a Sea Dragon, a real-world proposal of what would have been the mightiest launch vehicle ever built. The Sea Dragon never flew in real-life history. Had it been built, its capabilities would have inspired awe.

Do you think the sea dragon will ever be built?

Not the way Sea Dragon was envisioned, anyway. I doubt it will ever get built, but it would be extremely useful. The payload capacity of the sea dragon is amazing (1.2 million pounds to LEO) that could get giant ships into orbit to go to Mars. It would be amazing, but I don’t think anyone will build it.

Why didn’t the Air Force build the Sea Dragon?

The Air Force has an inventory of expendable rockets such as the Atlas and the Titan that it used for satellite launches. The cutbacks that occurred to the space program starting in the mid-1960s forestalled any notion of actually building a Sea Dragon.

Can a sea dragon go to Mars?

The payload capacity of the sea dragon is amazing (1.2 million pounds to LEO) that could get giant ships into orbit to go to Mars. It would be amazing, but I don’t think anyone will build it. Development costs would be large and the cost of building, transporting, and launching it would probably prevent it from being built.