Reliant Robin Space Shuttle | Top Gear Series 9 | BBC Studios
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Top Gear's Hammond and May try to make a Reliant Robin into a space shuttle, what could possibly go wrong?
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this feels like watching a live action version of kerbal space program
Yep
John Carver I came here to say this
+Óskar Steinn Gunnarsson Great contribution
+John Carver Essentially it was. And I now challenge any Kerbal Space Program Players who read this comment to build a Reliant Robin (or the closest approximation of one) in the game and fly it into space, then back to Kerbin in one piece.
+Shadowkey392 challenge accepted!!!
They should have done it with a Toyota pickup truck. That would have survived the crash
Too clumsy
a car with the spirit of a nokia 3310 with the resistance of a nokia 3310
But the pickup didn’t have the same spaceship shape as the Reliant Robin
lmao nokia cell phone back in the day were bricks lol i ran over my old phone still worked.... xD@@christianmirto1597
I'm surprised how much it ACTUALLY worked.
Good enough for Jeb to pilot!
Escape + revert to VAB
Nothing you couldnt handle right?
It did work! right up until the reliant failed to separate from the fuel tank and rode it down like Strangelove.
says jeb, the one who makes anything fly...
I hope the rocket guys who did the real work on this got some well-paid contracts out of it. Brilliant job.
The crazy part is if the fuel tank managed to detach it actually might have worked
Daeton Summerz True, since I saw it was going to be by remote control, I said it was going to fail... the remote control lost the signal, it went to high and then too far
Hector Matute they should have had a pilot with a ejector seat
+Daeton Summerz maaaagic
It's actually the flow of the air that often holds these things together. In the 1980s they spent tens of millions on a flight in the USA and the thing detached, got sucked back in by the slipstream, hit the tank and ultimately killed the pilot. Can't remember if the shuttle bit broke. So anyway they cancelled the program.
Yeah, it was obviously meant to fail
If top gear had NASAs budget Britain would have men on Pluto by now.
***** Could not handle the distance,it would clearly have to be an Austin Aleggro
+lemonscampi or would have to be a Dodge Challenger. Oh wait...
But would they still be in one piece when they got there?
This was honestly one of the best things they ever did on top gear. The excitement of those engineers was palpable. Quite upset that fuel tank failed to separate.
This has to be one of the awesomest things they've ever done.
I now challenge any Kerbal Space Program Players who read this comment to build a Reliant Robin (or the closest approximation of one) in the game and fly it into space, then back to Kerbin in one piece.
Four or five attempts later, and yet my friends and I have yet to achieve this. Mostly because we're still trying to take this challenge a bit more seriously and not build something that's deliberately designed to crash and explode on impact, usually aimed at Mission Control
I remember watching this and being amazed that it actually went airbourne. classic TV.
I thought it would explode on take off. Pretty impressive
Clud
This was one of the best things I have seen on any TV show ever. Hammond's facial expressions are perfect to use when describing what I felt when I saw that car soar into the air.
Probably the best Top Gear challenge ever.
What an amazing stunt! I can't believe that a TELEVISION SHOW was able to fly a car to 3000 feet.
9:13
The look on Hammond's face is just priceless!
I think the car and the "rocket" had not been separated on purpose. "TopGear" likes to blast everything.
Pavel Ratatoskov Right you are fellow stalin.
Pavel Ratatoskov Clever boy....
So this is where NASA got its idea for the Space Shuttle, sounds like copyright breach to me.....
Excellent.
Best one yet.
Never have I laughed as much.
The Launch was beautiful.
That was quite spectacular. It doesn't matter it crashed. The fact it flew steadily straight up for that long was quite a remarkable achievement in itself.
Still better than how the North Korean Space Program is going.
xD
SONBoomer xD
SONBoomer They got satellites into orbit.
Satellites and astronauts (or cosmonauts) are two different things (well, three, ideologically speaking, but you get my meaning).
SONBoomer I see. I give them credit for achieving it (successful launches) with limited resources.
Cracking footage. If Jeremy Clarkson had been riding on top of the car, wearing a Stetson and whooping like the USAAF officer in Dr Strangelove as it descended it would be an all time classic.
I remember watching this when it was first broadcast - I didn't think something of that weight would even get airborne in the first place. The engineers are worthy of much respect for achieving that alone ...
That take-off was absolutely brilliant. One of the best top gear challenges ever.
Oh my god I can't stop laughing for almost one minute.
NASA should support Top Gear to find to a way to go to Mars by cars
they should totally make another one!
Hell yeah! They got that far, not to separate again would be a travesty.
Absolutely freaking brilliant... Everything so good, and then the Reliant not separating from the main fuel tank. Total classic. This is real TV, not the 'Idol/Survivor/So You Think You Can Dance' nonsense. Well done the BBC, Clarkson, Hammond and May.
I wish they would try this again with a more aerodynamic car... I really wanted this to work...
9:17 The look on James' face after it crashed is priceless...
Kudos to the show, the producers and the engineers!... I think we were ALL emotionally invested when James musingly announced... "I'd quite like THIS ONE to work"...
Absolutely fantastic. By far the best entry to modern space oddeys from Europe, ever!
@9:04 New Top Gear in a nutshell
"It's gonna come down like a lift with the cable cut" - lol
the look on their faces right before the "landing" was priceless!!!!
Great that it worked as far as it did. I think it would work better as a Gemini capsule though, recover 2 rocket stages, and bring the reliant back down on parachutes. Wish they'd try it again.
evolution of Richards face is always amazing X D
I almost pissed my pants at the final shot of Hammond.
His face is just priceless, and then he says: 'How are they gonna use it again!?'
Brilliant. :)
I'd say they should have used a Dodge Challenger... but it probably would have exploded mid air.
BA-DUM-TISS
Ehhhhhhhh
+Griffin Hankins (Challenger shuttle refernece)
+Yardie Noh Old joke is Old.
Have a necro post.
Mustafa Rehman i know. EHHHHhhhhhh
+Yardie Noh
That was _pun_-ishing.
This should be re-uploaded in at least 720p
Hans Wurst Thanks! =D
Nice kaboom there Top Gear. That was worthy of Wily Coyote.
This is quite possibly the most awesome thing they ever did.
That was pretty amazing! The take off and initial release looked spectacular. So did the touch down
Noice quality there mate. 144p bloody hell BBC. And it's on RUclips so the colonists are paying for the hosting not the local council.
+Daniel Murray (NomaLens) They doing that to send you to their website.
+Daniel Murray (NomaLens) It was 2008. I don't think youtube supported anything higher than that back then.
RUclips didn't support anything higher than 240p I think in 2008
goddamn state broadcasting and its unlimited monies
Awesome every time I watch it, great work on pulling it off.
In my opinion this is the most exciting and daring thing I've ever seen on TV, love it.
Jeb approves.
:p
I approve :D
Interstellar: The Beginning.
THAT DID SO WELL. For one go at it, that was simply amazing.
You've got to love James' "Oh Yeah!"
Should have used a Toyota Hilux.
What... what is their budget?
I've thought the same when I saw Robin on the rocket...
..those cars are really expensive nowadays
Yep they have doubled in value in recent years. You'd be hard pushed to find one for less that a tenner these days.
One of my favourite Top Gear challenges!
All the world's a Monty Python episode to these guys..My wife doesn't get it..perhaps I should divorce her
wow, didnt expect such a sweet lift off. well done those men
This is hte best episode of a programme I have seen in my whole life.
This is just incredible.
This is one of my favorite challenges it's brilliant.
By far the most ambitious thing they ever did, and not even that rubbish. I really tought they'd never get any further than just the model. It must have cost millions to make that thing but it probably didn't cause the bbc had to pay for this. Incredible that they even got it of the ground!
I think this is the best task ever been done by Top Gear!! I LOVE IT!!!
That was honestly one of the coolest things I have ever seen. They should try it again for sure.
This is amongst the coolest things I have ever seen. Well done.
Those engineers....bloody legends they are.
This quality is extremely good! Compared to the quality of my downloaded Top Gear episodes, this is like HD.
That explosion was glorious!
That was the best payoff i could have hoped for! Beautiful flight, and a big fat explosion at the end! This couldn't have gone any better! That rocket was insane!
this by far is the most amazing bit you've done
This is the episode that started it all for me. This episode is the reason i fell in love with this show. First episode i ever saw.
Hammonds face at 9:00 is classic.
One of the greatest things I've ever seen!
That was pure awesomeness!
That was AMAZING.
"I thought the robin was a good place to start because it is pointy at one end....that is as far as I got with that" lol
9:17 is one of the most hilarious top gear moments. Ever. Both of their faces...
The fact that it worked at all, albeit briefly, is still incredible.
They need to revisit this someday and try again.
"whats it actually going to feel like to fly do you think?"
"well, its going to come down like a lift with the cable cut"
lmao.
This is the most amazing thing I've seen.
What an amazing classic
9:11 best part of it all! Really liked that explosion!
That.
WAS EPIC!
"How are you going to re use it?!"
Considering that a few university students designed a viable way to pick up a small car in a, let's face it, relatively small rocket system, and the fact that it launched at all is pretty amazing. The fact that the apogee motors kicked in at all to dump the solid rocket boosters is pretty amazing as well, it really was inevitable that the bloody thing was going to crash the way that it did. Props to them for getting it to go as far as they did.
"and I was worried about the landing" LOL
James' exclamation as the rocket lifts off.. epic.
best topgear car challenge ever!
"The Reliant is a problem aerodynamically"
"Well they didn't really design it with this in mind did they" loll
definately one of the most epic top gear episodes EVER
when my mum watched this she didn't beleive they were actually going to launch it!!
only topgear would be mad enough to do this. Gentlemen, in this age of risk assessments and economics, I salute you.
I have to say, this is HUGE WIN!! ..probably not for TopGear presenters, but for buliders! I would drop a tear after start!
Love these videos!
best telly ever, i cried genuine tears of joy
Excellent, have at it Howard Hughes, can't wait hear about it.
Intergalactic smugness. I like that 😂
I was expecting it to blow up on the launch pad. I must say, I'm freaking impressed!
best thing ive seen on TV in my life
This project really sums up Top Gear, just pure EPICNESS!!! :D
I felt so bad for these guys when it failed to separate. So much time and sleepless nights, as well as being their most impressive project to date. You could tell they were completely crushed when it... well... got crushed. Still, impressive nonetheless, and the SRB separation was definitely the best part and it went perfectly. Not bad for five months.
That was AWESOME! I work at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida & damn if that don't look like a genuine Shuttle launch. The ending was frighting because an RTLS (return to launch site) landing has never been attempted during accent. I fear that's what would happen for real. Good job guys.
Back then i was truly amased by the fact it did actually launch properly and seem to go to space ,And by the face of hammond and Captain slow.
Indeed best project ever!!
They should def do this again, they can make it work!
I love Richard's face, lol! It's all like
O_O
That is awesome success in my view !!!
That was brilliant.