Craziest space projects that actually existed

Giant nuclear spaceships, interplanetary mosquitoes, and space squid robots. Since the dawn of the space age, there have been plenty of crazy projects. Some of them even reached certain stages of realization. In this video, we'll talk about a few of these examples

Stabilized video from the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2sjqmKeM5g
MOLAB video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNaoxY-dXOg
My video on ion engines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxntigaSI2U
My video on surviving lunar night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8JJBFvgUxM

00:00 - Intro
01:50 - Lunar projects
06:57 - Interplanetary
13:24 - Nuclear Rockets
18:11 - Orion and Aldebaran

Sources
MALLAR
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/forgotten-plans-reach-moon-apollo-180972695/
Open platform
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190031985/downloads/20190031985_rev1.pdf
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/excursion.php
MOLAB
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-had-plans-geology-lab-moon-180952137/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNaoxY-dXOg
Kuck’s Mosquito
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/infrastructure.php#kuckmosquito
Squid
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/soft-robotic-rover-with-electrodynamic-power-scavenging/
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/11-2015_phase_i_mason_peck_soft_robotic_rover_electrodynamic_power_scavenging.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/niac-2015-phase-i-and-phase-ii-selections/
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/soft-robotic-rover-with-electrodynamic-power-scavenging
Windbot
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/could-windbots-someday-explore-the-skies-of-jupiter
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/niac_2015_phasei_stoica_windbots_tagged.pdf
Orion
https://www.ans.org/news/article-1294/nuclear-pulse-propulsion-gateway-to-the-stars/
http://www.astronautix.com/o/orionnuclearpulsevehicle.html
http://www.astronautix.com/p/projectoriossiblerebirth.html
https://vehq.com/how-hot-does-a-combustion-chamber-get-in-a-vehicle/
Aldebaran
https://armaghplanet.com/the-amazing-aldebaran-spacecraft.html
https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=5353
More info
https://www.sociomix.com/diaries/entertainment/the-10-weirdest-spacecraft-ever-proposed/1615844445
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/5-of-the-weirdest-spaceships-being-considered-by-nasa
https://www.vox.com/2015/2/22/8077449/nasa-colony-missions