Short history of reusable rockets and spacecraft

Short history of reusable rockets and spacecraft

A short, incomplete, history of reusable rockets and spacecraft, from Wernher von Braun’s ideas, to the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane, NASA’s Space Shuttle, the soviet Spiral, Buran and Baikal, NASA’s DC-X, JAXA’s RVT, Blue Origin’s New Shepard, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser. Credits: NASA/Roscosmos/Мосфильм/JAXA/United States Air Force/Blue Origin/SpaceX/Sierra Nevada Corp Music: Blue Danube by Strauss courtesy of YouTube Audio Library