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

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

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

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.

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'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.

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

Excellent stuff bro

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.

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.

Great video bro 👍

New subscriber here. Fantastic content. I love your clarity and knowledge but not too out there that I loose interest. 👍😊🇨🇦

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?

Fascinating it will be amazing times in the future

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)

Thank you.

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.

Sounds great

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").

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

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Let's make Mars great again

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

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.

Where can I watch the podcast

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

Ya.... right!

You will get there..

I've been on Starlink for more than 2 years and I'm pretty happy with it. Hoping they can increase bandwidth and reduce latency further. Upload bandwidth is the biggest limitation for me, but I make it work.

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…

Red Planet was such an underrated movie.

will it be difficult to make a loggy ?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

“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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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....

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

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

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Knew it was one way tripp..

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

How's perseverance now?

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

i have a solution for a toilet and shower in space. housing in my ship will be standard. 10w 10l 8ish foot high. with connecting shower area and toilet that is 4w by 5l each and a 5l by 2foot wide closet for space suit and personal stuff. the 3 wide 4 foot high 6 long bed folds up and a tv screen is their. the couch across 3w6l4h. will have 4 draws for storage space.

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

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.

Very carefully I assume

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

By Hyper Sleep?

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

Interplanetary journey...

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!

A swimming rocket is the way to go

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?

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

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.

One word for that question, fusion.

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

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`

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

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...

Satellite recovery ships

@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.."

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

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.

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

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

How about those Van Allen belts??

Hold up a minuet fella. First answer the question of how are you going to get them there before presupposing you would could possibly have any idea how to return from somewhere you have never been!

Best place is phobos station.

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launch various comms to a median orbit around the sun between earth and mars that when the planets are farthest apart there can be laser connectivity between the various satellites sending messages at the speed of light.

Landing The MAV and any other needed equipment first at or near main human landing area First would be best? An on Mars habitat module ? vehicle garage module? science module ? equipment repair workshop module? etc modules that land low to surface in a flat not pencil landing? After all are ready or replaced by ones that arrive intact? Land the lander return Module or Modules? Mars moons could be a rendezvous base camp Remote robot Real time control center and master command. Mars is not the back room Moon of earth time delay and communication is too long

They should carry umbrellas.

Here is what I think have some thing on the moon, which is closer to earth. Then you have one rocket ship on the moon, and one on its way to Mars so for instants live in Mars, stop on the moon refuel, leave the moon, and come back to earth.🚀🚀💡⏳⌛️🤔

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

Talk talk talk thats all.

I see exploration by robotics and we can experience by visual reality technology. No point risking human lives.

3D print some or all of the return vehicle on Mars

It's a one way trip letsnotkid ourselves.

From what I've read, the people planning to go to Mars were told they would be permanent residents for life. It does seem rather final but being able to return seems like a good goal.

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

Mars long range get anyone

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

Probability of life on Mars is close to zero - because the Martian top soil is equivalent to the most aggressive sterilising chemicals used on earth (extreme oxidising chemistry).