How NASA Plans To Build The First Moon Base! 

I've discovered a clearly measurable reincarnation-like phenomenon, in the last years. If you tell me where you have been born, have grown up, have lived I with a high likelihood can predict locations of your next life. If you have lived in the Soviet Union, you'll probably live on Mars.

@Hansdunke Hilarious

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I hope I can live long enough to see a man step on Mars. I remember the first Moon landings.

@@HansDunkelberg1 Why don't you just cut to the chase and ask for his bank details?

Just a side note is the very real hazard of silicosis in the lungs from fine dust, I think from memory your lungs can expel > 5 micron dust, but smaller sharp fragments can scar the lung linings and it's not good.

The channel named Joe Scott actually addressed this too when he made a video about the Artemis program.

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@@onlythewise1 Yea, they're doing something like that w/ NASA's new Moon Suit. NASA knows what damage Moon Dust can do and why. I saw a YT vid somewhere that said the new suit will have the ability to "neutralize" whatever charges Moon Dust carries w/ it and supposedly shed the stuff. I guess compressed Dry Nitrogen is then used to blast off remaining particles. Means they've got to carry Nitrogen along w/ them as I don't thing it can be manufactured from the water NASA is going to "mine". Also, Moon Rocks are supposed to contain trapped Oxygen, but they've got to melt the Rock to extract it. I don't know where they're gonna get Nitrogen from but it sounds like it's gonna be needed for several reasons. And then there's the Equipment that remain out in the Sun that's gonna take a bath in that "Powdery Like Substance".

Yes we really need to be in an internalised environment completely isolated from the external environment. Ie. our spacesuits need to be more like capsules - always outside, enterable from the back. This way no dust would ever be within the habitat environment. However - I also think the suits themselves are too bulky to be long term solutions. The only real long term solution I can see is the Skintight Astronaut Suit - but more development time is needed to overcome material inflexibility under armpits and the groin area. Perhaps research into meta materials would yield results.

Years ago, we had the microwave...and that's about it.

US military began planning a moon base back in 1969....to be completed in 2030

After the Apollo missions the Moon race told us not to come back. It's that simple. Fifty years later and at least one government (USA) is working with them here on Earth and probably on the Moon. The fact that we are going there again probably means we've negotiated approval for these visits.

@@mnegreiff Ridiculous. And exactly HOW do you KNOW that to be so? Explain.

I agree completely! Moon colonization should be the first goal and/or priority, in total preparation, for further exploration, such as on Mars-(I know...still will be extremely hard), and possibly on to other planets and beyond.

lol who are " we " , you meant them

“We”? 🤡. Anyways. How about getting involved and trying to solve the problems here on earth/ur country. Instead of pretending ur like skywalker🙄

Wake up dude since nobody has ever been nor will be on the moon soon!

I think something some people fail to realize is that for at least the near-ish future, putting colonies on other planets farther than our moon would require them to basically be completely self-sufficient and more. Like hospitals with advanced surgical capability or toolsets and materials to fabricate new parts for machines that may break. The trip to other planets is long and requires certain launch conditions that mean in the case of an emergency there is almost never enough time to just send a solution from earth.

Even more in debt than now.

@@rayubinger9780 one of the biggest cons in world history.

Crazy. How is the United States of America going to accomplish this when yous can't even build highspeed bullet trains? Everyone is complaining about the 100 or so billion dollars for the California highspeed bullet train project and yet you wanna go to space for trillions? Infact you cant go, I cant go, only a few from the scientific community can go. Your country wount even spend the 20 billion dollars to eradicate homelessness in America or, 110 billion dollars to wipe out hunger but you wanna boldly go where no one has gone before? Haaaa, ha, ha, haaaa, lol!!! No wonder god no longer blesses America...

Sadly, it's more about militarizing space and a few companies and some politicians getting very rich.

@@hikesystem7721 Bang on

You really think we're going to explore the galaxy? How?

@@leonardgibney2997 With robotic probes, telescopes ( google Webb telescope), even manned missions to the moon and Mars are planned. The distances are too great to explore planets outside of our solar system, unless we make some scientific breakthroughs that allow us to travel at higher speeds than are currently possible.

If you spend Billions getting to an asteroid, what could you mine that would make it cost-effective? What can you mine on an asteroid you can't already mine on earth? Maybe when humans have large space stations it may be more cost effective to get resources from space. I don't believe mining asteroids is in our near future. Maybe mining on the moon to supply a moon base.

Once we have good infrastructure on the Moon and within Orbit, mining asteroids becomes significantly cheaper and more viable.

@@cxxx8492 agreed

@@TexanUSMC8089 maybe. Still it was an interesting concept and update would be cool.

Platinum and Gold and other noble metals actually aren't that rare in the solar system compared to Lead, but they are rare on the surface of Earth and our Moon because we were entirely molten in the past, which allowed any metals which didn't bond with oxygen/sulfur/halogens to sink to the core, leaving the crust and mantle on top. Any primordial asteroid which has never been molten or which was part of the core of a small planetoid (we're pretty sure of a few of those) will have all of those noble metals at the surface and throughout in what would seem to us like insane concentrations. There's a pot of gold at the center of the earth and the moon, but that's WAAAAAAAYYYYYYY harder to get to than space is, even with traditional rockets

Lets try to survive corporate greed until after 2025- 2030 on Earth, that is going to be challenge enough preserving* our species, until then we have no future.

The universe "awaits our species"??? Really?

We'll never get out of our own solar system without warp drive.

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So a dude producing videos for clicks about fake space travel and the big lie elephant in the room that is the moon landing lifts your spirits in humanity. Sock Puppets everywhere. I can't with this species, the level of ignorance and how gullible people are is mindnumbing. I'll take What is a closed system? for 3000 Chuck. Ignorant humans will believe anything.

Me too man. Me too indeed.

Hard to grow weed on the moon. You obviously smoke plenty of it here.

1/6th gravity? Not likely.

I watched 'the Expanse' no thanks 😅

Well, that's basically how space stations were constructed since the earliest days of space exploration - parts of rockets, refurbished as bases/livable area. And in general, cannibalizing spaceship is one of the main ideas for early settlement on any planet/moon. With your Starship example, you use the hull and dig it in the regolith, you use engines for some hopper craft for lunar surface, you use fuel tanks for air/water storage (remove them from the superstructure) etc. A cannibalization process like that would be a very important exercise in space construction and exploitation of resources. Because, if we continue relying on building stuff completely in the place of origin (be it Earth or some other place in the future) and shipping it to another body, we won't reach far or fast. Designing the craft from the start so that they can be repurposed at the destination is a huge deal.

@@Wustenfuchs109 Starship all by itself has a larger internal area than the ISS. One Starship in orbit would be the largest space station humanity has ever built.

We need to find a way to use local materials to build what we need though - I think the solution is in panellised construction built from melting regolith, incorporating airtightness, radiation protection and insulation into one solution.

@@TexanUSMC8089 That does not contradict anything I said, nor does it bring anything to the conversation - so what is the point of it?

@@hub5343 We won't be doing that until there is a sufficient economic need for it. For an entire industrial process of mining, refining and manufacturing of parts with ISRU (in-situ resource utilization) we would probably need a colony of thousands of people. Maybe some smaller every day parts being done with 3D printers with supplied raw resources before that. But that is not going to happen for quite some time. You need to justify it with more than "I need parts". Because, if you need parts to create a small base, then it will be MUCH cheaper to make it on Earth and ship it in segments. Think of it this way - have you ever seen even a small mining operation? It usually involves at least 100 people and some very heavy and specialized machinery. All of which you'd have to ship from Earth and supply from Earth. Then, there is an ore refining process. Refineries are HUGE energy consumers, no matter what you refine, and again - huge facilities, lot of people of various professions, so again at least 100 people. And, at the end of it all, production. Again, large facility, workers, machinery for at least several basic components (pipes of various size, sheets of metal, wires, bolts...) which is again huge and energy intensive. Another 100 people. So, from the start, you are talking about ~300 people workforce and 3 very large and energy intensive facilities in a very hostile environment. You need to house those 300 people, meaning in addition to those mining, refining and production facilities, you need an apartment complex and a small transportation network (we are already talking the size of a village here, and being very conservative) - and all that needs maintenance crew PLUS power! And a power unit for all of that has to be HUGE, either a decently sized nuclear reactor or a huge photo-voltaic panel field, both of which require nice workforce. All in all, just to kickstart a production on the Moon, you are talking about creating an entire village's worth of infrastructure, plus a small industrial zone and constant supply for almost 500 people (you need redundancies, shifts etc.). It will cost you. A lot. That is more material and manpower than humanity has shipped into space, combined, in its entire history. Which is fine - but only if you already have funds, resources, manpower and need to build a presence in space for thousands of people so that building all that can facilitate that growth better than shipping from Earth. It's like on Earth, you have a distant island, or Antarctica. Can they make a factory of their own for stuff they need? Sure. But is simply cheaper to ship it in for the size of population they have. If they planned to grow to 10 million people, then yes, they would probably invest in some basic production capability. But as long as numbers are low, that ain't happening because there is no economic reasoning to do so. So, in terms of space and ISRU, while we will probably have some space industry in the future, it is a distant future. Apart from some feasibility experiments in that field being done, I don't think you can expect anything like that before the year 2100.

Chinese space Station is collaborate with Russian New generation space station...

@@immunelist2376 Chinese space station is all Chinese.

Totally on board. Think modular.

davidheckt3398 The astronauts living in the empty fuel tanks of the landing stage? Don’t think so…

Not to forget the almost perfect protection from small meteorites and radiation. With an airtight lock at the end of tubes (or when a void interrupts it) it should make a great and safe habitat. When the voids are later covered with glass roofs they can even start farming. And they still have a safe bunker nearby, just in case.

Why would there be underground water on the Moon?

And if, in the future, we want to put a colony where there aren't lava tubes the Boring Company will come to the rescue.

@@johndododoe1411 Because NASA found ice at the poles. Some might’ve been trapped underground during the many meteorite bombardments and insulated from the surface. Perhaps an aquifer extending into the lava tube making the settlement self-sufficient. Got water, you got everything! Same for Mars!

@@philiplongee1149 Underground liquid water would seep to the surface and evaporate.

I don't know why kicking up dust would be a problem anyway. It immediately falls back to the surface. It isn't as though it floats around in an atmosphere, as it does here on Earth.

@@craigcorson3036 from what I’ve heard, the gravity of the Moon is so low, the dust kicked up would be sent into orbit around the Moon and would not just settle back down as on Earth.

@@craigcorson3036 >_> I cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not. but assuming it isn't, kicked up dust is a huge issue, becuase of the low gravity the dust can spread around the moon. and the dust is essentially made out of tiny blade like shards of rocks.

@@craigcorson3036 the dust can damage the engines on landing, a very bad thing.

@@curruptedJimbo No. There is NO ATMOSPHERE to speak of on the moon. Any dust that is kicked up IMMEDIATELY falls back to the surface. It is not going to "spread around the moon". It would be no more dangerous that the dust on the surface.

I thought i was the only one that noticed that 😆

In space, it is basically planned to be done via "bakeries". You'd take regolith and bake the Al out of it - mirrors, solar energy. At least when we talk about the Moon specifically. But until there is a really developed lunar industry, I doubt making aluminium would be anything but a test on a small scale. To justify the entire aluminium mining and refining facility, its cost of construction and operation must have financial justification. If we are talking about bases in the next several decades, it would be much cheaper to build what you need on Earth and ship it. In the similar way that we import aluminium when we need it, even a continent away, rather than making an entire mine, refinery and parts factory in a place we need aluminium parts at. To build an entire complex, we would need a huge demand for it on a certain location, as well as a good enough source. It will be quite some time before our lunar presence creates enough of a demand to justify the production on the spot. The best example would be Antarctic. There are raw resources there, quite a lot. And it has population that is bigger than the Moon can hope to have in the next 100 years probably - ports, dozens of bases with 1.000-4.000 people combined. But still, we ship everything there. Moon is much further away and shipping is not cheap - but still, I don't see an industrial complex, even a small one, for quite some time. Some test facility to test the concept? Sure. Some 3D printer to fabricate the critical part from the raw resources brought from Earth? Sure. But the entire process from mining to finished part, on the Moon, to fuel the expansion? Call me a pessimist, but I don't see it happening before 2100, if even then.

Me too! I wish they'd hurry, I'm not getting any younger

There are pictures of the Mars Lava Tubes with the "skin" broken. One can see what's inside of those breaks and with close examination can make out signs of intelligent life.

Just go see their flight and land test done like a year ago or something. There you go, the answer you were looking for.

Its center of thrust is closer to its center of mass as it has landing thrusters on the top of the ship rather than on the bottom as to not kick up moon dust.

Keithmorse9716. ”Speeding up transmission”? Do You talk about radio signals? They can never be faster than the speed of light. So we are stuck with the speed of communication we have today.

Different but not the way u imagine.

I thought this video was made in part by someone who has ADHD

And dangerous to epileptics.

Stop being a baby. The rest of us like it

😂😂😂. I’m sure he’ll think of only you next time

@@chad735 he actually eliminated the flickering effect, which causes discomfort not just to me but also to other people.

I'm sure they aren't aware of that.

They probably could remotely drive vehicles from lunar orbit, but radio waves travel at the speed of light, so there is much latency from earth to the moon.

@@TexanUSMC8089 not really, 1.5 - 3 seconds. However there is a blind spot once every orbit, therefore it might be only done in emergencies

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@dulap1814 The early Explorers had breathable air, Fredh water and food all around them. Not so on other world.

Don't give up your day job.

The dust will be an issue but it won't billow up and hang there like the picture shows. Since there is no atmosphere it will only react to the thrust of the lander it which kicks up will quickly be pulled back down by gravety.

I think they'll get a chance to figure that out after the find a way through the van allen radiation belts.