NASA has a plan for a Mars Colony! New habitats for bases, rovers and even Starship!

NASA has a plan to colonize Mars! Modular habitats that you can put on a base, rover or even a space taxi!
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[davidswift]

...Getting closer to the 'Space 1999' Eagle design!

[MarcAus]

What I love about this is being modular gives you redundency. As long as you arent wandering around in one of these things completely isolated from any other infrastructure, you can cannibalize parts from less needed constructions to at least maintain a 'lifeboat' to keep people alive while waiting for a repair mission.

[definitelynotRoberto]

I think the best thing we could do with Mars is to cap the canyons. Mariner Valley is gigantic, but it has branches that can be relatively narrow. Mars has already given us 2 or 3 walls of a skyscraper (cliffscraper?). I'm picturing arcologies built throughout the valley. As they grow, they can push out and create ever larger "open air" spaces under the domes.

But it would start with the first base, basically a cargo container designed to hang on to the side of a canyon.

[freedomoperator]

These engineers certainly play Kerbal.

[ErikBongers]

I so hope that this Starship tech will take off. It's already changing how people are thinking about the future of space development.

[johnmcque]

This may work for a while, but not a long term visit, they will need to have a RV type of vehicle that is solar charged and needs zero fuel. It will need continuous track wheels like a tank. Basically a E-RV tank like vehicle.

[Astronist]

The mobile base will no doubt have its uses, but misses the most important point: that to get any kind of permanent foothold on Mars requires large-scale permanent industrial infrastructure for water and minerals extraction. Only a fixed site can offer the basis for growth, without which Mars missions will remain scientific sorties and vulnerable to cancellation at the next change of government.

[snivla]

Hi I did mention this type of landing on the moon for Starship. I mentioned I saw a video where Starship lands on its belly or gets hoisted to a horizontal configuration and they remove he propellant tanks for use as more habitat or farm or science lab modules. I was basically told off by another viewer for being an armchair astronaut . I was simply saying that as huge and top heavy as starship will be once arriving at the moon I thought it a bit backward trying to land vertically and even if Starship had a very long and sturdy landing stanchions there is still a great possibility it couldnt land on those without it falling over. We know NASAs last mission to the moon and Jaxxa s had this problem and NASA's lander was mainly devised to get data on landing on the lunar surface. I think its just common sense to try and keep Starship in its current format and to land on its belly instead of vertically . After all any extra equipment added to it like these longer legs are just going to weigh a lot more and complicate things further. If you want to take off again it would be much easier to hoist it back up if needed and that equipment and its components should be available as the idea was a lift to the bottom in which case you can repurpose a lift as a hoist ..Great great stuff you are doing here thanks so much angry ..

[steve]

Ever since NASA showed the Alpaca lunar lander, I've been pleading on this and other channels that it should be on wheels not standard pads. I am ecstatic that someone else finally thought this might be a good idea.

[contestvoter]

Excellent - I considered a mobile habitat years ago. Surface to LEO, interorbit, etc. it would be attached to whatever was the next transport system. Getting there!

[joezolo]

Over time, isn't this what The Boring company is for. dig a tunnel from colony to colony. Then either rovers or some sort of EV or an electric train goes from colony to colony. I assume the majority of living space will be underground, due to the radiation.

[CaptWho]

I agree that this solution is mobile and there are definite advantages to mobility, but the thing that I would worry about is radiation protection. I would assume that to keep weight down there would not be a lot of shielding to protect the occupants. I believe that having habitats underground would be a safer solution utilizing existing caves or simply piling dirt on top of wherever habitat is built and using this solution primarily for exploration.

[moosethompson]

I like the inherent interchangeable parts of this system. I wouldn't want to be stuck on Mars with incompatible parts. Once a large enough colony is established 3D printing and the like could lessen this need.

[NicholasNerios]

Great habitats,
And might as well study the moon Phobos as much as we can before it falls too Mars surface, or breaks up into a ring blocking the sun for solar energy, further cooling the planet, and training down rock abs debris on your colony.

[charlesblithfield]

I don’t see Starship being the vehicle that puts this equipment mass on Mars, at least Starship in current architecture. The belly flop, the number of retankings needed and the tall craft with narrow base all constrain it for these purposes IMO.

[brookestephen]

pre-building, prior to astronaut arrival, is the dream. Will we ever manage it? There's just so many critical things that could go wrong - the more complex you make it.

[nekomakhea]

> compact modular mars base for mobile exploration
He invented the Camper Van RV

[anthonyhunt]

Maybe this might be where Dyentics might still shine eh?🤔

[williamconnors]

This concept deserves a "wow!"

[keithnance]

I love all of the mental gymnastics of the overly complicated solutions presented in this video and yet Starship having to refuel multiple times is considered ridiculous brings me a chuckle…SpaceX and Elon really are showing everyone how things actually get done!