HOTOL - Spaceplane of the future

HOTOL was a 1980s British project to build a totally reusable Space Shuttle. The project was cancelled and as it existed in the pre-internet age it’s hard to find information about it. Whilst I was making my Spaceplanes video I came across a HOTOL brochure from 1985. I thought I would go through it and give an overview of this extremely interesting project. For an explanation of why I think SSTO spaceplanes are the future of space travel check out my spaceplanes video: I’d like to thank the Secret Projects Forum as the source for a lot of the resources used in making this video: The background rolling Earth orbit video is from: “ORBIT - A Journey Around Earth in Real Time“