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    HOW ROCKETS ARE MADE (Rocket Factory Tour - United Launch Alliance) - Smarter Every Day 231

    SmarterEveryDay

    5 HN recommenders · recommended in 8 months, 2020–2025

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    54:16 · 13M views · Feb 29, 2020

    Destin Sandlin tours United Launch Alliance's rocket factory with CEO Tory Bruno, showing friction stir welding, structural rocket skins and large milled parts.

    HN recommends it as a rare look inside a rocket factory and cites it for manufacturing details like welding methods.

    Engineering, Transport & MakingManufacturing & industrial processesSpace exploration & spaceflight
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    8 comments from Hacker News

    1. @tastyfreezeDec 2020· in “Starship SN9 damaged in an accident in the high-bay”

      A lot of rocketry advancement would not be happening if SpaceX didn't enter as a competitor. For that reason alone SpaceX should be lauded. It helps that SpaceX is pursuing the dream of a space faring civilization that was promised decades ago. Relativity Space looks cool. But until they launch they will sit in the stack of neat tech to maybe be excited about. I am excited by humans doing things to advance the species. I don't care much who is doing it. But, I have been burned by too much vaporware to get excited by marketing pieces. If you haven't watched Smarter Every Day's ULA factory tour I highly recommend it. There is even a nice bit about how their materials have improved as computers were better able to model stresses. this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @polytelyAug 2021· in “Everyday Astronaut: Starbase Factory Tour with Elon Musk”

      It's so cool to get a tour like this, fascinating stuff. The part at 13:30 seems to be some really valuable knowledge, when he says: if you are not occasionally adding things back in, it means that you are not eliminating stuff aggressively enough. Smarter Everyday did a tour of the ULA facilities [0], which is also worth checking out if you like this kind of thing. [0]: this video

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    3. @tiffanyhDec 2025· in “Former ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno Joins Blue Origin”

      There’s a great “Smarter Every Day” video on how rockets are made and the guest host was Tory Bruno. this video Two things I recall from this video from years ago 1. Tory really seemed to be a true expert. Not a typical “CEO”. 2. Seems like a genuinely nice guy, see this moment when Tory recognized Dustin’s dad [LINK]

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    4. @725686May 2020· in “Crew Dragon Docks with ISS”

      Smarter Every Day has a very interesting video[1] inside the factory of United Launch Alliance in which, among a lot of other things, shows the friction stir welding used in their Atlas Rocket[2]: [1] this video [2] this video

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    5. @AdamJacobMullerJun 2024· in “Navigating Starlink's FCC Paper Trail”

      In fairness, ULA has done that too. this video Also literally everything Destin/SmarterEveryDay puts online is worth watching.

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