Space Stations: Past, Present, And Future | Answers With Joe
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If we're going to become a space-faring civilization and travel to Mars and beyond, we need to know how to live and work in space. So while space stations aren't the most headline-grabbing aspect of the space race, they are vitally important.
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"Wouldn't it be great if all wars were just two countries just trying to out-nerd each other."
EPIC!
In fact, I'm pretty sure that it is exactly what all wars are! Even the Cold ones.
we rolled a 6. but russia rolled a 2.
we both suck, but we won!
YES!
not real Mr evil.
not any wars, we tech nerds
solve challenges in a race
let's race China
LOL not
@@intothemaze8865 lol nerds DO get dragged into wars,but they aren't necessary. Wars could still be fought with bows, arrows, swords, horses and pikes, and they would be just as deadly.
Interesting fact:
"Mir" means "peace" in Russian. A nice name for a space station during that insane time.
Well, let's not forget that it also means "World" (in the broad sense of the word) so it gives it a neat double meaning.
In all Slavic languages, МИР (Mir) is Peace ;)
In olden Polish (it is no longer in use in day to day language) it meant 'prosperity'
"Mir" doesn't exactly mean "peace". The etymology of the word means "no war". That is a very grim cultural background.
Retired librarian
They were dropping hints
"Skylab LANDED near Perth?" That's a generous way to put it. ;-)
Kelly Freas, renowned science fiction artist, did a painting of Skylab that is awesome. It was used on the cover of "Analog" magazine and the response was so huge they ended up doing prints for sale. I have one, framed.
I also have the "cartoon" from Christian Science Monitor memorializing McAuliffe's death, framed. It's getting old and yellow and I've thought about buying a new print from the artists, but I like having the original up.
Retired librarian, and science possibilities fan from birth
"Stan Thornton, who was 17 at the time, won $10,000 after picking up the first piece of Skylab - which fell on his shed." lmao
At the time NASA was all like “ehhhh it’ll be fine, Australia. It will probably burn up in the atmosphere...” yep! No worries mate she’ll be right...!
Now do it with an O'Neill.
@@Joshua_N-A drop it on Sydney probably
It seems space stations are basically going to be celestial truck stops. I wonder if there will be celestial lot lizards.
@M 40 lol yeah we need to be safe and smart for our safety radiation is rlly dangerous but mars is always constantly being hit by radiation so i feel sorry for the future martians or maybe there will be a technology that can block radiation who knows? there a lot of smart geniusis out there to make it possible...
@M 40 Agree. Prestige alone cannot justify a Mars settlement. Under current technology, there is about a 50 percent chance that any person who would make a trip to Mars would die during or soon after it. Maybe with artificial magnetic fields, and speedy magneto-plasma transit it could be doable, but those are a long way off.
I volunteer to go to Antarctica! But I'll settle for the North Pole.
Have you ever played outer worlds? Cos the people you recruit in space stations are just that
The large space habitats such as O'Neill Cylinders, Bernal Spheres and Stanford Toruses are to provide a market and economy in space, and a labor force and infrastructure for manufacturing in space, not just a way station as they can actually be maneuvered to where they are needed. And yes, I'm sure the oldest profession will still prosper but with additional microgravity offerings and more likely to be on call or brothels rather than strolling between docked and berthed vehicles even though skin tight mechanical compression space suits are a distinct possibility over bulky pressure suits. The question is whether telepresence androids or virtual reality will open employment in the field to a broader population and would this remove the human trafficking element of the business.
Good ole video from father time Joe.
Im not sure how long ago i found this channel
But there really is something very unique and entertaining about his videos.
They actually make me feel happy whenever he comes out with a video.
Joe, your channel is amazing and the topics you cover are always i entertaining, informative, and it has a hint of comedy with it.
I watched your video with John Godier (my favorite futurist and science fiction author none the less)
And it was very eye opening
I am very happy that you got that one question about the fermi paradox that really made this channel what it is today.
Thank you for the upload Joe.
Hey thanks man!
Congratulations, Joe actually responded to your comment, not just a like but a real response. ( not sarcasm ) ugh I just realized I'm a Joe fan boy. 😲😲🤣🤣
@@joescott thank you joe
You are a big inspiration in my life.
@@tommyc9898 i would make sure you got that notification bell on and ger up at around 7am
He tends to upload from bewteen 6am and 8am on the days he makes content.
I mean the earlier the more traction it gets i guess
Yeah I know, I'm usually at work. I just happened to be off today, and saw a Joe video alert he's one of the few I follow, and subscribe to
I feel like my years are burning up to fast, I feel that there is something big just around the corner but yet so far I will not be here to see it. But I guess that's been the same for everyone.
I totally understand what you're going trough. I was 5 years old when Amstrong stepped on the moon and I remember it as if it happened yesterday. That saturday was special, no one in town were doing anything but watching TV, outside it looked like a ghost town. Now at only 3 months from my 55th birthday, if health permits, I look forward to when men will set foot on Mars.
@@Particulator you may even be one of them, or even be able to be apart of suborbital travel.
FooBar Maximus Or, you can just say fuck it like I because you don’t give a damn what folks like you think.
I named my son star walker.... I might not travel to distant stars... But my child might.... Or my grand child might...
Welcome to the 55 Club!!
I want a full video on the ISS, that would be AWESOME Joe! Thanks for all that you do!😍😍
I'm 16 now in 2019 and really want to become interstellar in my lifetime, so i watch every new video about space from this channel! Thanks Joe! I really love your videos! You're doing a great stuff!
Optimist. Interplanetary, maybe, multiplanetwry not terribly likely, interstellar hard to imagibe. Unless you plan on living far longer than a hundred years...
@@DagarCoH living far longer than a hundred years is the point
@@DagarCoH Optimist. You'll be lucky if your grandkids will be able to call Earth a 'home' as opposed to 'the place we're stuck with'
@@DagarCoH nobody knew in 70-90s that there would an Iphone! So be realistic!
@@asadbekmuminov3603 Yeah they did, the first smart phone was created in 1992(?) and a similar device had been thought of for a long time
It’s visible from space, huh?
Shouldn’t have signed that one sided treaty with the Romulans banning cloaking devices.
Damn it you beat me to it.
I was going to say :
Visible in space space with the naked eye for a very short period of time. Until your eyes dies
What the heck are you guys talking about?
S Stills It's a Star Trek reference.
@@foobarmaximus3506 don't get your knickers (panties) in a twist
@@foobarmaximus3506 if you work for NASA then that means you are a government bureaucrat sucking off the teet of the taxpayer.
You forget the space strike on Skylab
Killua
- I forgot about that . . . "We're taking a break. Your schedule is too much."
More like miss communication, but yeah, space mutiny
Not to mention the issues with it when it was launched:
"The station was damaged during launch when the micrometeoroid shield tore away from the workshop, taking one of the main solar panel arrays with it and jamming the other main array. This deprived Skylab of most of its electrical power, and also removed protection from intense solar heating, threatening to make it unusable. The first crew was able to save Skylab by deploying a replacement heat shade and freeing the jammed solar panels. This was the first time a repair of this magnitude had been performed in space."
The space station is "visible from space with the naked eye." Wow. That is amazing. But seriously, thanks for the great videos, Joe. I'm also enjoying the OLF collaboration. Keep up the good work!
Ya know, I'm not really a science/engineer of any kind and don't know how I passed a majority of my science courses, but I really enjoy these videos. I might not get it all, but they are funny and informative. There is rarely a time you post a video I'm not interested in, even if it is just slightly
2:44 "This was the first time anybody died in reentering." Well at least the first time russians admitted that. There is suspicion that one female cosmonaut had died in reentry a couple of months after Gagarin returned from orbit. There are rumors that there were few cosmonauts that didn't make it back before him either.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Joe done a video on that subject not long ago, talking about the female voice recording. Sounded like she was burning up during reentry yet Russia denied ever having a woman up there at the time
there are 12 Dead Russian Cozmonauts on the MOON from various Missions.
As indicated by certain shortwave comms that were chance picked up by radio amateurs in the West during the 50's and 60's.
Thank you for always uploading great videos :)
Joe's killin' it...the topics, writing & delivery. The quality of his productions is second to none...streamlined! :)
Love the way you package and present your research and information. Just realised I've watched this one before :)
I look forward to someday financially support your channel.
6:12 Visible from space with the naked eye? Hmmmmmm... Maybe because it is in space?
??????? no logic
wups
I think was like .visible from earth kind of
The wording wasnt great but we all know what he meant. Leave Joe alone
"Winchester mystery house in space." The best description of MIR I have ever heard.
AWESOME update and summary of everything-space stations. (Just found your show and playing catch-up on your videos.)
Another great video Joe. Except..... no mention of Sierra Nevada Corporations Inflatable Habitat, as part of the gateway foundation! (Including the very cool in-space food growth). Hopefully it’ll be in your ‘alluded to’ future video. 😉
"Wouldn't it be great if all wars were just two countries just trying to outnerd each other?"
It would, indeed.
Then "World Wars" would be the greatest gifts to mankind.
Cheers Joe - love your channel. Been watching all kinds of mind bending stuff from your archive. Thanks for the smiles :)
Joe, thank you for your endurance and top notch quality content.
Best wishes for you and your team.
Till your next upload.
Best regards
GREAT VIDEO!! but i though today you were going to talk about the black hole's first image.. :3
Lol 2 days later
Visible from 'Earth' with the naked eye, good video.
6:10
With your link I subscribed to the CuriosityStream. I watched the moon documentary and it's awesome. Thanks!
I've been fortunate enough to meet Michael Foale, at 5:08 top row third in from the left, he has flown on Shuttles, Soyuz and been to MIR (and ISS to if I remember correctly). Awesome guy!
I'm excited for the gatewayfoundation stations. I personally think that going 'interplanetary' instead of multiplanetary is probably a much better approach, since you can tailor your environment much easier on spacestations than trying to terraform a planet that wont give you 1G no matter how hard you try. I'd love to see and visit a o'neill cylinder in my lifetime.... I can have dreams.
Also, in order to go to mars and further, we'd need well engineered spacestations anyway, because any spaceship that is able to support life for a longish time (until you get to another planet) is already exactly that, a spacestation. So why not try to get those done and perfected primarily? Elon? please? xD
the gatewayfoundation station is a joke. At least the Von Braun concept.
You can't experience weightlessness there nor can you watch the earth without vomiting violently because it is zipping by a few times per minute.
Without earth observation and weightlessness you have lost your two only arguments for a Space Station in LEO.
@@3gunslingers the thing is, we don't really know how people would react being in a rotational habitat. We have to find out, and I have yet to see someone being more serious about this kind of concept than them. And with non rotating habitats closer to the center you could easily have the weightlessness you need... and a more pleasent sight on earth. Or you use it just as a stayover for astronauts that a working on a nearby station. Anyway, just calling it a joke isn't really fair, I think. It's only supposed to be a proof of concept after all.
@@rickotap3859 the Gateway foundation proposals are scifi by a long shot. Anyone can draw up some fancy pictures and call them a 'proof of concept'. At least Bigelow has actual test units of their space station ideas built on Earth to guide development.
@@rickotap3859
The "vomiting violently" part was about the quick moving earth outside of the windows, not about the Coriolis effect on humans.
_"And with non rotating habitats closer to the center you could easily have the weightlessness you need... and a more pleasent sight on earth."_ That's the very problem I'm talking about. The gateway foundation doesn't plan on any such non-rotating habitats.
_"Or you use it just as a stayover for astronauts that a working on a nearby station. "_ Not possible. The fuel needed for ferrying and station keeping would be enormous.
This concept station will ONLY demonstrate that you can build a ring in space and rotate it. It will not be a proof of concept of a financial feasible station like they claim.
You have to ask yourself: Would you pay to stay there?
@@3gunslingers I do not think that a spacestation rotating at 1-4 rpm (which are the numbers I encountered mostly) would produce a vomit-summoning view. The earth would essentially move like a really slow pendulum. It could maybe be a bit disorienting, but I doubt that you wouldn't be able to get used to that. And yes, they do not seem to plan for a non rotating part for the von Braun, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't be added later, and I think it was planned for the actual Gateway. Although I would need to check that. And no, you wouldn't need a lot of fuel to ferry between stations, as long as they would be in fixed positions relative to each other. You would need to be precise though, or the stations would need to be much closer. In the last case you could also just connect them with a Tether and use clamps with electric rolls or something, so you'd only need a bit of electricity. And surely I would pay for a visit! As long as I could afford it.
Don't get me wrong, I will remain skeptical about the gateway Foundation until they actually have something telling in orbit. I am just happy that someone keeps this kind of concept alive, I couldn't care less who actually does it in the end. As long as someone is doing it.
Edit: when it comes to proofing that you can build a giant rotating ring with habitats in orbit, that's already a big deal, and would make them being able to rent that place for horrendous prices, which they are already kind of teasing they will. Disgusting, but a valid strategy for Investors, which COULD make it feasible. At least it would proof that their bigger structure is possible.
Hey a new video from Joe 👍
love all your space videos!!! keep up the great work as always!
Another great video! deffinatly MORE on future space stations, please!
Please do a video on artificial gravity..
RIP Discovery Channel.
Danielle Spargo it’s ok, we have Joe now!
Chelsea Dodson
Thank god for that! 😊
That it is!
How do you make every video a banger Joe? I found your channel about a month or two ago and there is almost nothing about your channel I haven't liked. Keep up the great work!
Great video as always. Tantalisingly close to talking about the possibility of gravity simulation and the von braun space station plans
I am speed! Haven't watched but but know it will be awesome!
Awesome topic! (It’s fitting for the past week we had.) I thought I knew all the past space stations, but again you teach me otherwise.
Amazing topic with awesome delivery ..... BRAVO buddy @joe_scott
Hey Joe! Love the video as always. Was wondering if u could do a video (another video) on black holes since they finally captured a picture of one....(wishing I had the reference material for you so you didn't have to look it up..sorry) and what it might now mean for us
1:43 Mixing up imperial and metric units always leads to trouble
antimatter + matter, not good bedfellows
although good Rage-fuel though!
@@livethefuture2492 would get us to Mars, though, but then we'd get lost
American's cant seem to just get on board with the metric system.
Oh yes, as an engineer and a mathematics Geek, I totally agree with you. The number of mistakes in manufacturing and engineering related to unit conversion are well documented. In the Netherlands at the Phillips headquarters, there is a giant shutoff valve that was supposed to be manufactured using millimetres, but the American engineering firm used inches and yards, it was shipped via the Panama canal instead of air cargo if it actually manufactured to specification. Just one example of many. Cheers from Canada.
Could we have a vid on metallic hydrogen
For the LAST time, NO
(jk, that'd be great)
Great post joe, loving your last weeks post, well done
Hearing the possibility of having a network of space stations makes me somehow really happy!
I thought 'it's visible from space' was a hilarious deadpan joke! I'll assume Joe meant it like that to not ruin the fun.
You can actually see the ISS when it happens to pass over your location (weather permitting.) Several sites on the Web will give you the timing.
>If we're going to become a space-faring civilization and travel to Mars and beyond
*Oye beltalowdas!*
Who are we? *MMC!*
sa sa ke
REMEMBER THE CANT
you CANT take the sky from me ;)
Love your shirt man! I'm also glad I found you on CZcams
Dude, I just spent half my day watching a video after video...and have about 9 tabs open as I am writing this! This is insane! I am lovin it, thank you! Great stuff! Please keep creating!
6:10 So used to the sentence "It´s visible from space with the naked eye" for things on the earth surface ;-)
Should it not be "visible with the naked eye in the nights sky" for the ISS? ;-)
Keep looking up! :-)
Gpcas9
Check out the app GoISSWatch! Visible Passes...
We need a base on the MOON NOW!
Florida*ARMY*VET
Or a few of them!
Nobody wants to pay local taxes, eh?
I mean we don’t NEED it. It would be cool though.
Your videos are nearly the only ones I find myself consistently finishing without 2x speed. good work.
Joe Scott - that's because most Space craft coast all the way to their Desination.
with a VASMIR thruster you are Thrusting for MOST of the way there, then do a Burn or Orbiting and back again, Whole process can take just 1 Month using VASMIR.
Space exploration is progressing way too slowly.
I am disappointed that the Moon has no habitat by now. That is for sure. I don't get why Bigelow does not privately contract with SpaceX and 'git er dun'
Your image makes me feel so old.
@@whocares2087.1 I know that feel...
The company that puts a small mine on the moon to refine He3 for pickup would return it's investment a thousandfold within a year, it's just that that initial investment would still be something that is out of reach of even the private sector at the moment, but a lot of rich folk are working on it. Both Richard Branson and Paul Allen own companies working on stratospheric launch vehicles while Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos fight it out in the rocket department.
Thank government cutbacks for that.
Just checked the Wikipedia which says OPSEK was cancelled due to funding and technical issues.....
Very informational, and well presented. Cheers!
Its incredible how much has changed in 4 years! Keep up the good work Joe.
The chinese "tended to go their own way". That's americaspeak for "the U.S. would only cooperate to help build and fund it if china was specifically not invited to participate".
Or China only wanted to be apart of the group if they could put up surveillance cameras everywhere and sound recorders. Oh and it must be made of Chinese materials. Haha because everything with a "made in China sticker" is reliable haha
@Nathan Zhang Cherry picking examples won't gain you much credibility. I direct you to a website called wish for a couple hundred examples (not all but many) of less than par quality created in China. After wish you can browse AliExpress, then Alibaba. For many, not all, examples of sub par quality.
Now I have a sudden urge to watch Gravity(2013) again!
Damn that trippy picture of yours.
"DaSilva has a hole in his helmet. And his head."
OMG! That came out in 2013! Time needs to flow the flip down!
@@BRUXXUS I know right? I just went to the OST and it said "Uploaded 5 years ago" and that made me realize how fast time flies...
This video got me hooked on this channel.
Joe, have you read Seven Eves? Would be interesting to get a technical "analysis" on some of the "space cities" and other tech the book talks about.
I read the Tropic of Cancer
I wonder how astronaut dealing with diarrhea during their mission on ISS?
Russians have advanced shitter, Americans eat constipation foods.
@@axl1004 Well, that's two ways to deal with it. 😂
😂 ha! There’s a GREAT book called “Packing for Mars” by the outstanding author Mary Roach that discusses these types of topics in space travel. Apparently the more typical response is *ahem* blockage.
DEPENDS.
axl 100 - the NASA Shrimp Cocktail is Quite good, tasty too. and the Fiesta Chicken is NOT bad Either.
Damn, I came too early to read comments.
Same.
Dayala Singh then how are you replying
@@legolilpump2356 there weren't many
I really enjoy your videos
I live for these videos. Thanks joe
Joe: "We haven't mastered living in space".
Illuminati: Time for WW3
Feng Shui
Great job Joe! To be fair, I think China isn't part of the ISS project because of the US objections, not because they didn't want to.
You are correct
From what I've seen on China uncensored I think they made a good decision.
@@homersimpson9352 It really only hinders progress in what has been an almost entirely non-military project. At the very least an agreement to use the same docking ports so that if the political landscape changes in the future we don't have to once again hash out another unified docking port like we did with Russia and the ESA, or worse, add exponentially more potential points of failure mechanically and logistically through the use of adapters which cost a lot to send up there for the tiny amount of purpose they actually serve. As well, the US govt is just as worried about Russia gaining access to our military technology as anyone else yet we are perfectly capable of playing nice with them when it comes to non-military space applications like the ISS. And collaboration through the ISS does not really affect each other's politics in any way other than to boost pride in a country's scientific prowess. Its up to each partner country to advertise and spin news from the ISS to their own public, so the US wouldn't really have to worry about Chinese influence on the US political landscape, at least not in anyway that the US wouldn't want. Sure, China may have many more than questionable political issues going on in their country (and I know that this is putting it almost too lightly), but excluding them from international collaboration only serves to show them that they should further ignore international requests and pressures and instead go it alone and not listen to international appeal on things. If they were allowed to collaborate it could serve as a stepping stone to opening up collaboration in other areas.
China's space program is technically a military problem, so, the US Government gets a bit cranky
@@homersimpson9352 the problem is right there, you are watching a propaganda channel.
Love space stuff. Also I really like your channel!
A module that can separate into two parts connected by long carbon fiber cables, then spun up, would be a cheap and presently feasible way to provide psuedo-gravity. Long enough cables could reduce the Coriolis effect and even half gravity should prevent bone loss and most other ills suffered by long term astronauts. If the 'anchor' module was heavy enough (small nuclear reactor?) the habitation module would be able to rotate at a slow enough speed to make celestial observation and resupply possible...
Yes. But space with gravity will be less fun :) joking :p
6:11 "It is visible from space with a naked eye." - You mean from Earth.
Damn my prediction was incorrect
Great video. Looking at the Mir illustrations, I can't help but think it was the original Kerbal space station.
This was a really good episode :) Thanks Joe
Space stations, LMAO yeah right. Show me just f*** one. But the first thing you need to do is show me f*** space.
Good luck with that.
You can see some of them from earth
SpaceX proved Space with its Rocketman.
Nobody "needs" to do anything for you, why don't you figure it out for yourself?
Communist got to space first and created the first space station? But i was told Communist were bad guys?
Christianity is responsible for 50 million deaths from 380CE to Reinassance era. @@SomeRussianSoup
The Nazis had the first rocket that flew over the Karman-Line. But I wouldn't call them the good guys.
@@finalfrontier001 Christianity lasted 2000 years, and that's all. And some of those deaths are even debatable. Communism did twice that and is one twentieth the age
@@briandiehl9257
No Christian deaths are not debate what is debate is 100 million number you made up. We have records of Christian deaths we have no records of these random deaths in 20 century.
Communism itself isn’t evil. It’s those in power that are.
Even though I'm just a teenager, I will be 75 before we make it to Pluto 😔 and its to late to explore our own world, aside from Atlantis and the Fountain of Youth. I hope our children won't be electronic addicts and explore deep space 🤞
Always insightful & entertaining. I noted the passing Von Braun concept, & it evoked a memory from my old geezer noggin. As a kid in the 1960's and as one who was there opening day for "2001, a space odyssey" I've always wondered: whatever happened to the giant wheel in space?
Yes I agree with you, but why have we not adopted the Von Braun Gateway design concept previously ? The Gateway Foundation appears to be on the right track.
Automated construction techniques used on high rise and car production means this design is cost effective and could be built in a few years not generations.
We really need the artificial rotational force to replace gravity until we understand how to produce it ourselves.
I hope the Gateway Foundation makes this all real sooner rather than later.
Really looking forward to that next video. Space stations are probably my favorite space topic. I'm too old to be a "colonist", but I'd probably do it anyway if I got that chance. But visiting a space station some day before I leave this planet permanently is vaguely possible and I would do it in a heart beat.
Always happy to see another Space related video. I agree that having an space station between Earth and the Moon would be a waste of time and money.
Damn, the Mir was the space-station equivalent of an AK-47: no matter how much you beat it up, it keeps working.
Russian buid items grow better by pouring vodka on it... Like iss walls.
Hello Joe!! I was hoping you would make a video of the black hole photo that finally came out. very good video
Space X's Starship would be a game changer for the future of space stations by increasing cargo capacity by an order of magnitude while at the same time reducing payload cost by orders of magnitude. New massive scale space stations becomes feasible. Before humans learn to live on Mars, I think we should have a human colony living in space on massive stations in earth or moon orbits with artificial gravity to develop necessary technologies for living in deep space first. The Von Braun station is a neat concept though I think it needs some serious engineering focused on it to move it along from the 'concept' phase. To think in the next decade Starship flights will become as routine as Falcon 9s are now and what new possibilities it bring for 21st century human exploration and expansion.
Cargo capability are are huge point about space things .by far
Yes! More space station videos, and any info on possible lunar bases!
The idea of space stations to me is an incredible way to learn to deal with the rigors of space travel while still being close enough to Earth to get help if needed. The lunar orbital stations is a fantastic idea! (why haven't we done this already?) Not only does it provide a presence outside of the magnetic shield, it also gives a way to study the Lunar surface over a period of time from much closer (not to mention a way to view the whole moon as its tidally locked and all)... Love your videos, you always provide ample information to understand the current concepts and more than enough to fuel the imagination for what the future may hold. Better still, with so much darkness in our world, it is nice to see there is some light still and gives me hope for a better tomorrow. Thank you.
Great video as always Joe
Pixar 2008: Welcome aboard the Axiom
2034 IRl: Axiom Space Hotels
so this is what you were working on your falcon heavy escapade!
man your job's awesome!
HAN piloted the FORD Falcon.
I was thinking about what the first long term mars or moon base might look like and would like to hear your thoughts!
Most artists and design students show bases with huge glass domes or complicated geometries, but I think things will need to be much simpler.
I think the first permanent habitats will be made by cutting or dozing a long trench (think continuous surface miner), covering this with an arch of compressed regolith bricks, then placing a layer of soil over everything for radiation shielding (just like a cut and cover tunnel). Air tightness will come from rolling out and inflating a lightweight flexible membrane to fill the tunnel. Internal features (air locks, flooring, walls, furniture, light fixtures, etc..) and the membrane will need to be shipped in with the first colonists, but the brick production, excavation, and arch construction could be carried out by robots ahead of time.
Curious People ,
There definitely IS one thing that we have not mastered , when it comes to docking spacecraft with space-stations , and that is "landing" ships on spinning stations . So far , we've fumbled badly just trying to dock capsules with non- rotating ones , so the current concept of threading-the-needle to insert a large ship into a small center-hole is a VERY difficult and dangerous one .
A much more forgiving and safe idea is to take the helicopter approach instead . This would require a very large center- dish with a raised protective rim . Arriving ships would center themselves above the landing-pad , then slowly descend , eventually touching-down in it's center . The casters on the ship's landing-legs would roll sideways , gently braking it's circular motion , until it came to a stop , relative to the station . At this point , electromagnetic grapples would extend , and bind the ship to the pad . Shortly afterwards , mechanical tie- downs would be affixed .
This system allows for the "landing" of very large ships on the station , without the necessity for precision automated computer-piloting , and without the risk of mass-induced "out-of-round" issues for the station .
*To examine the types of propulsion- systems likely to be used in the ships mentioned above , read my post at :
quora.com/How-do-impulse-engines-work/
Really interesting and thanks for the link!
great vid as always
4:06 Hey Joe .... my Brother snapped the only shots of Skylab's de-orbit ( that wasn't one of them : weather was crap! ). He was a government astronomer at the time, based in the Perth hills. Thanks : ) BTW, you are wearing my nerd shirt ; forgot that I had been subbed so long.
another video to make my day :D
Early morning cup of java with Joe
Absolutely love the shirts that you wear , but this one with the Tesla Roadster going to Mars that's the best one yet
As a world builder my current world is just starting to get into the space age and this video is very helpful for when they start building space stations.
Great vid, and I love the shirt
Would you give your input on the idea of an orbital ring? Specifically, in reference to Isaac Arthur's video on it
I had read about the depressurisation of Soyuz 11 but had no idea it was returning from Salyut 1 at the time with three guys who had just entered the history books :/ I remember reading about how when they opened Soyuz 11 they found that one of the cosmonauts had released himself from his harness and had been fighting to fix the valve that took their atmosphere away :/
Great topic, Joe! 😊
Thanks for the shoutout Joe!
Mornin Joe!