How NASA Plans To Get Astronauts Back From Mars! 

I witnessed the first human Moon landing in 1969. I'm not holding my breath to see any human land on Mars and return safely

It's not interstellar travel if you aren't travelling between stars

A solve to the problem of the rocket being unable to launch vertically on mars could be hydraulics. They could be used to stabilize a launch pad or just the rocket itself. The lower gravity of mars would require less power to level it too.

I'm loving this Modern Space Race this century. Very intrigued how things will turn out. Lot's of big and small players trying to race their way to the top.

Mars rocket lad attempts their first ocean recovery. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)

I think the SpaceX Starship is supposed to address all of these problems.

Amazing video ! I like it so much . Thank you for sharing . Happy week-end to you !

This is really well done. The editing keeps you engaged with much of the information not found elsewhere, unless of course you do your research. If you're time is constrained, this channel allows you to thin out your subscription list so to speak.

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Some sort of nuclear powered booster should be sitting in orbit around both planets, then other craft could use these to travel to and from the moon/mars - meaning the fuel they carry is only used landing or taking off from Mars - sounds too easy to be doable - only problem is we just don't have nuclear powered boosters. Though I'm sure NASA and others are working on that. I'll go an watch the podcast :) Great content as usual.

Fascinating it will be amazing times in the future

The Space Race, another good video. However, at the 2:00 mark, I was surprised to hear you say that a trip to the moon (not Alpha Centauri) is interstellar travel on easy mode. I guess so, as I've always thought this trip qualifies as interplanetary, since the prefix 'inter' means 'between', i.e., 'between planets', and interstellar means travel between stars, as they do on Star Trek and Star Wars, at faster than light speeds. Right?

What about the relative timing of transfer windows? How much time is there after a hohmann transfer to mars before the beginning and end of the hohmann transfer window from mars to earth?

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Sounds great

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It’s CRAZY how much more advanced SpaceX is… Any update from other rocket companies I here I’m just shocked. They are all at least a decade behind SpaceX (maybe even 20-30 years behind, based on their speed of iteration)

Thanks for another interesting and well-researched video from a subscriber. I wanted to point out, though, that "Lunar LEM" (2:28) is a bit redundant (the "L" in "LEM" or "LM" stands for "Lunar").

Let's make Mars great again

Rocket science is freaking hard, you got to make everything near protect

There has to be several uncrew missions to Mars that safely return to earth before we sent humans to do the same in the future. Keep in mind, that there has never been a spacecraft returning safely to earth from Mars; such it has been the case of the moon when several Soviet space probes took samples on the Moon, and then return to earth. The Chinese has done the same within the last year, I believe.

yes

I’m so lucky being young in this age so I can experience this when it happens. The human fascination in space is just bonkers.

If life is found on mars at any level, those people can NEVER come back

This is like, my favorite Space Channel rn. I like the stock editing 😅 and it feels very personable. Very underrated channel. Love this

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Red Planet was such an underrated movie.

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You will get there..

Ya.... right!

Note that this guy has a podcast as well “also called The Space Race”

"We have to get those people back home again..." --or do we?--

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“The Mars Ascent Vehicle, or MAV.” Huh. The Martian was so accurate, it predicted the names of the vehicles. 😂

A link to the Mars podcast might have been nice.

Where can I watch the podcast

The tech to refuel on Mars is the key to it. We need to prioritize, fund and accelerate that technology. Methane and oxygen seem the right choices, since we know both exist there.

water was detected around the äquator too .. for example in the valey marianes ..

The first person to die on Mars is born already....

Would it be possible to send an automated excavator thing to mars just to build a landing strip for a space shuttle type vehicle.

I think the first step is to establish dry docks on Mars so the vehicles are not stuck in the elements as all of the components are relatively delicate. We need infrastructure in place so we can have a reliable way home

A swimming rocket is the way to go

NASA: "The astronauts think they're coming home from Mars?"

One word for that question, fusion.

will it be difficult to make a loggy ?

I know the answer to this title NASA is going to hire SpaceX. That’s how they’re going to do it do it.

A flight to Mars is not a short distance run; strengths and capabilities must be calculated especially realistically and carefully. And most importantly, you need a long-term, meaningful goal and strategy. Current plans look lightweight and illusory.

Knew it was one way tripp..

Thinking outside the box, imagine a modified Starship cargo area with a faring that would be jettisoned to present a 9 meter diameter flat surface with a central docking hatch. The the RVAC engines would jettison and present the same 9 meter flat surface with docking port. Incorporate the classic central merging sections to expand the system in a multi axis configuration like ISS… except 9mX9m sections. Expandable to the point of the classic Von Braun station… Just saying…

People who can’t stand camping for a week should not be dreaming of space travel.

They are "EXCITED". You can't be excited about something so complex and dangerous. That will make people rush things and make hidden errors.

It's a one way trip letsnotkid ourselves.

I mean all questions here are very valid. For instance, I’m very concerned just with the landing aspect of a vertical tower. It’s even tricky landing on earth with concrete platforms and such now imagine nothing on the surface of Mars. I know what some may say “oh we got the falcon 9 landing well” but I’d say is a starship that has landed only once and yeah it wasn’t even fully straight standing remember that. Lol There may be a lot of work on those landing legs. Then how to refuel the Red Bull can back again (The equipment men/women power to to all this) Give me a minute my head hurts😬. I mean the design of the starship is not even fully complete. Ok, yeah they say 100 people fit in it, that’s with nothing in that 35% of the tip or so of the ship cause all else is basically for fuel🚀. Food, water, equipment, and like what to sustain maybe 10sh people or less for a very short duration, since this is basically our first try. Ok I know that there will be risks involved like Elon says, but I think the risk assessment has to be greater so we can bring everyone back. 😬

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A day is too long to spend in a spacecraft the size of the LM ascent? Apollo J missions had 2 astros on the lunar surface for about 3 days!

NASA podcasts always seem to have a "dont mention spacex" policy. The problem is, that there is no mars mission without spacex (within 20 years). I hope NASA will be more open once/if starship proves to be viable.

NASA would only send 2 people at a time at 1st to Mars? NASA`s motto should be 'To meekly go where no one has gone before`

Very carefully I assume

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I would suspect they will definitely use starship when it has proven itself instead of any other lander.

Why even land humans on Mars at the onset ? Robotic landers can go first and establish a habitat and fuel production facility for the humans that will arrive later. These self repairing construction robots can be remotely controlled from Mars orbit from a space station and satellite links.

Just wanted to say. Love the video but one thing is bugging me. U use the moon version of the starship in the thumbnail. Thats all have a good day

the video is not exactly off topic, but it is not on topic either

They should carry umbrellas.

Interplanetary journey...

NASA should just give it to Space X and write the check.

@5:46 Angry Astronaut has a video talking about NASA having found water at the equator. Video is called "New Discovery! Huge water source found on Mars.."

Send artificial intelligence first to build space stations and lunar modules and 3D building materials

First we should deliver dozons of starship carrying plenty of fuels and foods and other basic facilities needed for our first astronauts, so that they can easily survibe there more than year without tention of returning back and hunger! The starship should be developed in that way that,it can land and take off on grounds that don't have landing pads ready! If landing problem is solved we can think about interstettravel as well after that!

I’d actually call travel travel to & from the moon inter-solar travel on easy instead of interstellar travel on easy

a lot less gravitation pull on mars so less fuel needed to fly up. less then half a tank to fly out of it.

The scary thing I see is that such a high percentage of earth launches are scrubbed or delayed because of issues ... how will Mars be different?

It seems pretty clear at this point that if indeed NASA gets an astronaut to Mars, they shouldn't have a problem taking off and returning to Earth. I say this because there will probably be a lot of SpaceX astronauts and Engineers living on Mars by the time NASA gets there.

How's perseverance now?

I also believed you need AI robotics to go to Mars to assist with building infrastructure to make things work.

Talk talk talk thats all.

There will be enough volunteers that don't want or need to come back to earth. I would send them ... at least at first.

Maybe we should make all astronauts get a neuralink and exoskeleton fitted as a requirement for now on? Support for atrophy and bone support, help colonization, support the weight of pressure suits....

I certainly would entertain the idea about first sending A.I. robots, fully scaled up to human dimensions And programming them to autonomously Carry out building and walking through the different scenarios that will certainly be encountered. Let them walk through the process of greenhouse production, safety and quality control procedures that would be the survival standards for human beings All while building and assembling the first inhabitable structures that could come online to eventually except actual living human beings. Anyway, it would get things rolling on 2 feet you might say, instead of little rovers and wheeled machines, of course these will also be vital elements and extremely useful tools. But having an exact replica of a human in A.I. form might just work out to everyone's benefit in the long run. Take the time it takes -- to take less time...

The comment should be 'How NASA 'HOPES" to get Astronauts back from Mars. ' If they all get there to begin with!!

Satellite recovery ships

Martian sandstorms arent anything like the Martian movie make out. They will dust the MAV. Not bury it.

“That’s the neat part: you don’t.”

Bathrooms are an amenity?? More like a necessity

Best place is phobos station.

Make 'em walk...

Mars long range get anyone

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How about those Van Allen belts??

Sence we know now that propeller vehicles work really good why not have a jetson or something like that so its modified to fit mars for himan travel idk

Why not a cargo rocket to deliver lunarnauts + supplies plus a fuel pod to a space taxi whose sole purpose is to do multiple return journeys between Earth and Moon using the fuel pod. Space taxi mates with lunar lander whose purpose is to do return journeys between lunar surface and low lunar orbit. Space taxi and lunar lander are reusable, and specific to their single simpler purpose. Fuel pods deliverable via taxi to lunar orbit.

Nasa's next goal is to return to the moon. By the time they get there, SpaceX will already be on Mars.

The probable method would be to have AI built the habitats and resources before the fitst colonists departed and they stay there permanently.

The robots will load the dead bodies for the trip home.

Dr. Robert Zubrin, Ph.D wrote the book. "The Case For Mars" where he outlined the way that N.A.S.A. could do everything that needed to be done for Mars Exploration. Obviously, N.A.S.A. didn't want to listen to Dr. Zubrin.

Geesus.. why not just send the fuel in a tank and have it orbit Mars so the landing unit can fuel up before landing?

Virus and bacteria?? But if we are there with many missions and they never discovered something like that..