Why don't NASA Build Rockets Like This? Are they Stupid?

Let us imagine an alternate history where Robert Goddard’s original rocket design was never questioned, and humanity just accepted that rockets should have their engines at the top and fuel hanging underneath. And then, let's take that idea to its absolute extreme and build the a fully reusable SSTO pendulum rocket, that can carry 3 Kerbals to the Mun and back!

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Pendulum Rocket Fallacy? What is that?

The song used in the intro is by the awesome Approaching Nirvana!
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The song used was Don't Look Down, and you can stream it on Spotify:
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This video is intended for audiences 13+ years old.

#goddard #ksp #kerbalspaceprogram

VISUAL MODS:
⭐ Waterfall
⭐ Restock
⭐ 4kSP
⭐ Scatterer
⭐ Environmental Visual Enhancements
⭐ Stock Volumetric Clouds
⭐ KSPBurst
⭐ TUFX
⭐ Deferred Rendering
⭐ HUDReplacer with ZTheme
⭐ PlanetShine
⭐ Parallax Continued
⭐ VaporCones
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⚡ Outer Planets
⚡ Stockalike Station Parts Expansion Redux
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⚡ Kerbal Engineer Redux
⚡ Promised Worlds
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The Kerbal Space Program OST was used as a backing track in this video.
The songs are composed by Kevin MacLeod and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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