The Cancellation of Constellation 

Two absolute banger vids in a row. Great content!

Ares V was an absolute unit, wish we got that timeline

One could only imagine what could have actually happened when constellation wasn't cancelled, but one thing is sure: With constellation never cancelled, there will be no Artemis and Commercial Crew

You literally have the best voice for this kind of thing. Such an impressive video.

This was top quality. Constellation is something that’s close to me since it’s what got me into spaceflight in the first place. I was too young to experience anything to do with Shuttle but in 2014 I saw the Orion test flight on Delta IV Heavy. Makes me sad that this program never materialized. It’s so much more cooler than Artemis.

God that lifting body aeroshell for the Mars mission concept looks so damn cool.

I remember seeing an animation of how constellation would’ve went when I was 10. I wish it went ahead. We would’ve been to Mars by like 2035. Btw this is really fucking good quality for a small channel.

So you're a space commentary RU-vidr now and not just a KSP youtuber?

As a kid I remember looking at stuff about constellation on the NASA website and looking forward to seeing a moon mission. This video brought back memories of that. :)

This is awesome!

Fantastic Job Man! I have never found a video that has done this good of a job of showing the Constellation Program’s ambitions plans and potential. I learned so much. Great Work!

Love it! #SLSGang at it again!!

Absolutely delightful video!!! I never knew the Constellation program was so interesting!!

Such a treat to see another one of your videos in my feed!!! I love it!

This is really top notch content we needed someone like you to teach us about NASA programs and not only spacex blue origin ula ect. I think your channel will grow big keep it up!

Newfound appreciation for Constellation! Really good video, gutted it never occurred!

Willis gets a lot of criticism online for his steadfast support of SLS, but this was an informative and enjoyable review of the Constellation program. Well done!

Great video David! I see you found some actually decent music. I really enjoyed the 3D animations in both this and the SLS video. Can’t wait to see what comes next!

I'm glad to know you enjoy making these because i enjoy watching them. You could talk about the rest of NASA's programs next, Shuttle and Apollo

Another great video! That whole plan for Mars for straight out insane.

This must be one of the best Videos on the platform - good job!

I still have to watch the whole video but let me tell you, THIS IS AWESOME MAN, GREAT JOB!

Another great video. So crazy that the Ares 1 was so tall and skinny lol. take your time with the next one and just aim to make each one better than the one before. No need to rush things.

Wow! This is such a great and informative video. Excellent work!

Amazing and detailed video covering the overview of this almost forgotten program!

A great compilation on this massive and ambitious program. Thanks, David, for all your research and editing to put this together. Anthony Young, author: The Saturn V F-1 Engine - Powering Apollo into History (Springer, 2009).

Amazing Video! Love your voice and the well researched informations. Also you have some amazing backround music dude

My guy is extemely underrated. Amazing vid btw!

This is very good! Keep it up mate

A david vid is always an epic vid

Ay man you're really good at this kinda stuff. Much better than I'd do lol

While starship will be useful if it works correctly, I think we need a Martian-style space transport station to ferry missions around the solar system.

J-2X my beloved

This was such a great video that educated me about the constellation project missions and objectives.This made me exited for a future that wasn’t. I hope the spacex starship would succeed and actually bring us to mars.

Just watched this video, thinking the guy sounded familiar... After looking at the channel, I understood why. Haha. Great content!

Really well done man

That was so awesome! Thank you I learnt a ton. Keep up the awesome work

Great video! Subscribed!

You have a great documentary narrator voice.

THIS IS EPIC VIDEO

Really cool video

Great job!

Fantastic vid!

fantastic content i love constellation

Very enjoyable video

great video david!

This is very good!!!!

Amazing

I wish this wasn’t canceled

Good video!

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I can't even imagine the alternate universe were we have the Ares 1 "Stick" instead of the Falcon 9 Crew Dragon

Great vid, shame the whole thing went so heavily over budget in the end. Also, it seems FFairing has 7 youtube accounts (currently)

WOW that would have been an EXPEN$IVE program had it gone through/survived to see the light of launch (on 39B..?) Very very cool video though!

Just a little tip: there’s background noise in your audio so it’s noticeable when an audio track ends, to mitigate this just fade out the audio at the end of the track

wow the constellation project was so inspirational! Pretty disappointing to have it canceled, hopefully, artemins happens.

I kinda hoped that after all this high stuff, we will get ares-1X launch with jurassic park theme on melodica

I like

Yessssss!!!

Finally somebody is talking about this

BADASS!

im sad now

Good video! Although I have to say that it was really more on "the Constellation program itself" rather than "The Cancellation of Constellation". One final question: what about the Ares IV? Seems interesting as it was basically the concept of SLS Block I.

instead of Ares 5 being the most powerful rocket, Spacex's starship will take the mantle!

great vid

Damn david this video was soooo good But where was the starship cameo

Worked/working on all those projects and we called Orion, RE-POLLO.

containment of mission ares v 1 : used for crew transport ares heavy lifter : cargo aka moon lander element

The sad part is that the j2x was never had a chance not even on sls

0:35 Epic aerospace moment

Ares-5 specifications were significantly superior to SLS Block-2 Cargo and had more payload capability ! ! ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

We got the sls block 2. i doubt besides starliner and dragon making the LEO and gateway trips there is much different than the insane inefficiency of sending a starship to land 3 people. So a different lander will replace the starship, spacex can only bleed money for so long. but it is sad that until starliner launches, space X has a stranglehold on our ability to get into orbit.

SPICY

Great general outline of Constellation. However, the longer Constellation lingered, the more and more unrealistic it seemed. The foundation for its start was a study done of what NASA should do in the wake of the Columbia disaster, which was to return to the moon and head to Mars. The resulting program was Constellation. There were criticisms at the beginning that instead of taking advantge of bold new technologies as was suggested in the Bush exploration report, that Constellation was just a big relplay of Apollo, and was not really a fundamental step forward in technology, but just something to delay an eventual Mars mission. By the time metal was being cut for it, its budget required that the ISS be de-orbited as NASA could not afford to keep it going and fund Constellation, and the Altair lander would have required an unrealistically large increase in NASA's budget. Also, there were some severe engineering reports, including one from the Air Force stating that the crew could not survive a first-stage explosion due to the rate of expansion of its fireball being able to overtake the escape system rocket. This was significant because a major part of the rationale in killing the shuttle was that there was no way for the crew to escape a launch problem, as had doomed the Challenger crew. Even the case for returning to the moon was not stated, and it did not have broad support from the public or even within NASA, as it would have been so expensive that NASA would only be able to do an underfunded Constellation and little else. Artemis has gained more support because it does have the stated goal of finding and making use of the moon's resources, and it makes use of commercially provided components, and apparently it requires much smaller increases in NASA's budget to pull it off than did Constellation. Politically, it gains some support by its use of the in-progress SLS and Orion, and in general Artemis is open ended and can evolve to take advantage of what we find on the moon and commercially driven technology, instead of just committing to a prohibitively expensive lunar delivery system with no clear purpose. It should be stated though, that thanks to Constellation, the LCROSS mission (that verified lunar water at the south pole) and the LRO that accompanied it, did fly on time as the first Constellation elements, and have contributed a lot to illustrate the importance of the moon to exploration. www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/bush_vision.html phys.org/news/2009-07-air-ares-crew-couldnt-survive.html

I mean, u are right, constellation program was the best NASA engeeniers could have imagine, but, due to the contractors, and partially due to the specs requiered it was simply so much expensive, maybe id they have gone in to a 2 stages medium lift querosene propulsión vehicule, maybe today we could have an Ares 1, and then, the awesome Ares 5 that enormous project should have never be founded or even propose until Ares 1 crewed maiden flight. Let' s hope on the elon and jeff way cause it seems like NASA can no compete with the SLS, even Europa Clipper must lift off in the Falcon Heavy or New Glenn, if ready, because vibrations on the SLS

Honestly, too bad that it got cancelled. Humanity lost a great program 🥺

Anyone have a link for the ''mood'' music used in this video cause i cant find it anywhere :( (starts at 4:40)

@Dawid Willis Can You please give me the link to the music which starts somewhere between here: 4:55 or before that?

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When a kerbal engineer plays nasa space program

Given the state of things now… wish we had gone this way….

1:24 bro really called it “Apollo on steroids”

Whats the song at 9:42?

Now I wonder if the Russian space agency ever came up with plans similar to this…..

Constellation didn't need cancellation; just pragmatic alteration.

16:15 What would history have been like if we landed on the moon in 2020 I suspect the astronauts would have to isolate on return not because of possible moon bugs like 1969 but because of covid.

So the Altair, with the cryogenic fuel in it, would be parked up there in LEO, waiting for the Orion to show up. Surely there was a time limit for this before too much fuel boiled away. What was the official answer to this obvious question? Surely there was one, and boy would I like to know.

Why couldn't they reuse the apollo lander?

Ares V became SLS

Imagine it worked out

What about cancelation of venture star developed in the Clinton administration by Bush at the beginning of his first mandate?

well at least the Orion survived, right?

Constellation would have been so cool, but if it weren't canceled we wouldn't have SpaceX and rockets that land themselves

VERY SAD THAT CONSTELLATION PROGRAM WAS CANCELLED ! ! ! WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AND YOU CAN ALWAYS RELY ON GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY AND POLITICS TO FUCK THINGS UP ! ! ! HOPEFULLY THE SPACE POLICY IS NOW CORRECT THIS TIME AROUND BUT WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT WHY COULDN'T THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE SPACE POLICY GET IT RIGHT FIRST TIME AROUND ? ? ? 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Sls but have ares 1 instead of srbs

Ayo I'm first on mars

Why wasn't it Cancellation Program lol.

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ! ! ! ? ? ? VERY SAD THAT THE CONSTELLATION (MORELIKE THE CONSTERNATION PROGRAM ! ! !) PROGRAM WAS CANCELLED BY INCOMPETENT POLITICIANS AND BEAN COUNTERS ! ! ! THAT'S BEAUROCRACY FOR YOU ! ! !😭😭😭😭😭😭😭