The Truth About NASA's New Space Station! (Axiom) 

Have to admit that being able to help build something like the ISS, and then decades later, get to build your own space station using the ISS as it's base, and then leave, like a child leaving home, would be all kinds of awesome.

Axiom is not the first nor the only commercial module docked to the ISS. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) has been docked to the ISS since 2016...

Didnt know axiom was just nasa in a business suit. Thats crazy

I honestly see no issue with Axiom having so much experience. I think it makes them less likely to make the same mistakes and keep costs down.

“The Right Stuff” was about the NASA Mercury Program and the original NASA astronauts., not the Apollo program.

You forget the inflatable Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, still docked to the ISS and serving as an additional storage space. Sadly, Bigelow suspended operations two years ago, but this _was_ the first module by a private company to be docked to the ISS.

That test stand had a long time to cure. These additions are going to seal the deal for quite a few launches. Great job SpaceX and all of you fighting the good fight on the ground and being our eyes and ears for this journey! ❤🎉

Very cost effective. the augments in tech and design are well thought out for a station 3.0 PS--- props for "Skylab" 😊

Brilliant video! These get better and better, keep up the good work and thanks for the news.

Assuming that the Axiom leadership is dedicated to the mission and not "take the money and run" as ppl in executive positions of other companies have done in the past (golden parachutes), then the company goals of building the new station are admirable and obtainable. 😎

Great info. On one hand I'm glad they are utilizing the wisdom and experience of people who are exceptionally qualified. On the other hand I worry that this was a no bid attempt to create a clique where they take care of their friends and expect to be taken care of themselves in the future.

What I didn't see you talk about was the orbital maneuvering section and the refueling system. Without periodic boosting, the new Station will decay. It also needs a system to orient the station in orbit, either with powerful gyros or an RCS system (or both, since gyros eventually develop too much spin.) The RCS needs refueling. If there is no thrust and control module, which spacecraft in the US inventory will be re-boosting the Station? Dragon 2 has the OMS facing the wrong direction. I think the Starliner may have the re-boost capability. Not sure if Dream Chaser has any nose thruster that can re-boost, since it docks the Service Module to the station.

I bet on SpaceX. With a custom non-reusable second stage, one starship would easily double the usable volume of the entire ISS. All you need is build a hub, dock a dozen of these one-way modules, than two regular starships as shuttle, maybe a bunch of escape pods if people are really paranoid.

Weird, surely every single piece of the ISS can repurposed, or recycled for use in a new station, instead of becoming atmosphere or ocean waste.

You could save a lot of launch & equipment costs if the new station was allowed to salvage equipment off the old station before they deorbit it.

honestly they should repurpose some of the modules as storage etc dont see why they need to just abondone them

Great video, thanks. Only one minor error, The Right Stuff book is about Mercury, not Apollo.

EXPERIENCE is everything.

They named the space station after the one in WALL-E lol

I'm all for hosting scientific experiments in LEO, however, what we really need is a true manufacturing plant up there in LEO which can manufacture the parts needed for a much larger manufacturing plant in L1 or L2. That plant would basically build out larger spacecraft that wouldn't need to go back and forth out of Earth's gravity well. It's like building a shipyard.. you wouldn't build one out in the middle of nowhere without access to the actual ocean; nor are you expected to haul a cruise ship (or other large oceanic craft) back to being land-bound.

What I find interesting in the comments to this video is how anti-human crewed space flight many of them are. May I remind people, all major US companies which are doing or planning human crewed space flight receive government funding through NASA. That includes SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Since the Axion crew quarters are nicer than the ISS quarters. I predict the ISS crew will be a little jealous of the newer rooms.

love the intro with the music and snaps of zooming in

Overvaluing inspiration over experience is important. Experience has pluses and minuses.

I spotted no mention of re-boosting the orbit of Axiom once it has un-docked from ISS. How will that be done?

To be honest I *really* want the current ISS to be saved, not destroyed, even if at present it is only mothballed somehow. Surely it could be boosted into a MEO and left? Assuming we survive as a species for the next decades, it could be one of the first items in humanity's Space Archaeology museum! Also, getting all that mass into orbit has cost a lot, surely there will be a use for it even if it cannot be realized right now?

I like the idea of the transparent bubble at the bottom of the station. I would rather see one big enough to have a lounge kind of seating area for people to sit and socialize. I would be like a getaway from the closed in feeling the Space station may create. It might be a way for people to relax and destress. I think that once Space X solves all of their problems with Star Ship and make it a complete success, they should start focusing on ways to create much larger space stations with all of the capabilities that humans need to spend years in orbit around other planets and moons in our solar system. These capabilities must include these top features: 1) Gravitational spin. 2) Complete protection from solar radiation. 3) Recycling systems. 4) Several dock ports (that might just be mainly for small shuttles) 5) A second smaller space station in orbit near the main space station that would act as a parking lot for other ships that wish to visit the main station. The second station would not need Gravitational Spin, or as much radiation shielding. Visitors would only be staying at the smaller station for a few days at a time. The smaller station would also act as an emergency place to go if there was a major catastraphy on the main station. 6) There would need to be greenhouses for growing on the station. 6) There would need to be a medical bay. 7) There would need to be accomodations for hundreds of people at the very least.

That intro was fire🔥🔥

Good vid, will be interesting to see what they make when starship is online

I think SpaceX Super Heavy could be a basis for a space station also.

The floating civilization station in the movie Wall-E was called Axiom. 😶 Life imitates art; was Pixar predicting our future?

so is there any new design to launch spaceship from station´s launch pad to study sun or to moon´s surface?

Axiom modules will now doubt catch a ride with Space X, either on a falcon 9, falcon heavy, or a starship. I think NASA should pay space X to build them a station, but the more the merrier I guess. We probably should have 3 or 4 different stations being built simultaneously in case one does not work, goes over budget or takes too long...

I've often wondered if moving the ISS into a junkyard orbit with plans to eventually let another innovator melt down the already refined metals would be more useful than launching new stuff at $10k per kilo

"Solar Pannel"??

A seamless bubble would be cooler window for the window room.

Not a bad gig; take the government paycheck, get your head around NASA's intentions, then 'leverage' your expertise (I'm being polite here) and rake the big bucks.

Impressive!

This was great information!!

They hired people that know what they are doing. Good plan.

Cool Northrop Grumman is making a space station. Realization hits: O-O

So, Space Station Mitosis.

The US Space Force needs to have their own orbital space station.

The reason they are mostly old guys is because the length of time it takes to gain knowledge and experience to do hard stuff.

nice job, enjoyed the video

I wanna go...

This is vrey innovative. It's at the cutting edge of technology!!

Yo NASA instead of throwing away the ISS why not push it into a higher orbit and use it as like a Orbital Warehouse and emergency Orbital Oasis/lifeboat? Stock it up with some extra parts, food, water, oxygen fuel Etc... that way if anything happens to the new space station or any other space station they will be able to get some stuff to fix them up... and in case somebody spaceship has a catastrophic failure they would have a place to hang out until a rescue ship can get there...

Class as always

Hmmmm I was only 4th this time. I do always learn from your great videos, even though I am one of those old guys.

Exiting...don't forget the 'disconnect' feature! ☝️😬

Using the ISS to build a new space station sounds promising. But using yesterday's technology is not always a good idea... NASA boss Bill Nelson is beginning to look a little fossilized. He was largely responsible for ensuring that the SLS was built for $23.8 billion by resurrecting the few remaining RS-25 Space Shuttle engines. Older people have valuable experience but this tends to make them less open to creative out-of-the-box thinking. BTW I'm a 77-year old AMAB 🤣

If they build it in space they can probably build it with one of them spinning gravity mechanisms were the astronauts physical training and sleeping quarters. People could stay longer if there is some gravity.

Axiom = Wall-E

Ngl it looks like a subnautica base

Is there any hardware that they could salvage from the iss? Solar panels for example?

Skylab was underrated in terms of design, both functionally and aesthetically. Much more pleasant and interesting than the ISS

Did Axiom figure out how to protect windows from debris and meteoroids?

that video clip in the beginning looks cool. where's it from?

Guess they didn't learn their lessons from Apollo one? Padded walls, with electric lighting and wiring right behind the padding is a recipe for a space fire. Just as lethal in space, as on the ground. Hab one needs massive redesign. No padded room. Geez. A little common sense goes a long way, Axium. As for that glass bucket, it'll blow out, as soon as it passes the Carmon line. Way too much glass, or polycarbonate, and not enough structural metal. That's why the cupola on ISS has smaller view ports, and MMOD shield shutters.

What is the music in the beginning?

There is nothing wrong with old guys and experience in leadership, there is however a problem with ONLY old people in leadership. To survive and grow long term, an influx of fresh blood is important, and the people who have the skill need to get the chance to grow all the way to the top.

At 7.03 min was that Darth Vader ? 😂🤣😂🤣

NASA/Axiom: Good ole boys club.

Amazing....

Tbh, I'd like starship to bring the iss down, piece by piece, and then reassemble it in a museum

Say some thing about , new methods to safeguard space station from debri or micro impacts

Does it have life pods?

Wish there was a way to keep the ISS power super structure and just deorbit the rest of the station.

100 mile high club.....I wonder how many people have thought that when they see that glass dome 😉

Is the glass going to be “transparent aluminum” instead of plexiglass for transparency and strength?

I think they should deconstruct the ISS and bring it down via large cargo rockets and then reconstruct it in a space museum to preserve it.

Well the hardware is already up there!

i hope glass dome has anti-micro meteorite measures.

It’s an eye opener that individuals can pay $55M to travel to space. And, there’s a waiting list! That blows me away!

"How did Axiom get this exclusive contract?" - They're mates with all the people who decide who wins the contracts...

I was the 7th person to like this amazing video. Keep up the good work!

What about adding a telescope?

We need to get a shuttle program going again they should kept shuttles going

We should be able to save many lab modules and docking spheres. Why waste the technology!

Tom Wolfe’s book was on the MERCURY program NOT the APOLLO program.

Meilleur souhait !!!

It's really for the Aliens. I sure hope they don't de-orbit the entire ISS all at once. They should break it up and do one module at a time.

Wait the ship from wallie was named axiom

They actually decided to name it after the ship in WALL-E

It would be possible to build a much bigger and much better space station with SuperHeavy and StarShip. Axiom Space Station could become outdated before it separates from the ISS.

Folks might wish to question the likely HEFTY draw of the Axiom's leadership team's deep rolodex of agency contacts in influencing the selection of the enterprise for ISS2.

it would be Good to Have a liveable space station where people can live for years as astronauts are working on mars to make it a liveable planet for people to be able live on

Why cant you add booster rockets to take the old space station into a further orbit so we can still use it instead of letting it burn up and losing all the material and cost.

Wasn't "the right stuff" more about the Gemini project? Maybe I just didn't make it to the Apollo part.

It’s should be pushed into a storage orbit, also build the station from one end and discard old parts from the other end.

The observatory is huge for tourism. If they fly 1 week out of 4, they will make just over 2 billion per year to upgrade and maintain their station. They will need that funding because there are no taxpayers footing the bill. The funding needs to come from somewhere.

Given the extreme cost of putting things into space, WHY aren’t they trying to recycle most or all of the ISS?

Axiom has better personnel strategy than Oceangate.

We’ll done on the video. Not sure if you are open to suggestions, but there is an aspect of this topic that has yet to be fully explored. Soon, there will be a human rated Starship. Once that occurs, it won’t just be a lowered cost for people to get to orbit, but a massive increase in capacity. If a fully crewed Starship wants to bring people to orbit, where will it take them? Not to the ISS. No room for that many people. Axiom? Haven One? Nope… Demand will exceed supply from the moment Starship is ready to launch people to space. Who is working on the first space station capable of hosting 100+ people? Emphasis on the plus, because there will certainly be more than one crew Starships

Feels like the end of an era.

Move the station to an orbit around the moon. It will give us a launching pad for our work there

I wonder if anyone’s ever knocked one out in Space to see how far there splooge flew in zero gravity

Interesting times! .. the power of money is literally astronomical.. lucky for some! 💵🚀🌍

Thank you