SpaceX reveals NEW Alpha Moonbase SHOCKED NASA! Musk declared...

SpaceX reveals NEW Alpha Moonbase SHOCKED NASA! Musk declared...
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00:00: Intro
0:31: Elon Musk's ambition
1:26: Elon Musk’s Starship HlS update
4:15: Build Moonbase Alpha
8:12 : Conclusion
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SpaceX reveals NEW Alpha Moonbase SHOCKED NASA! Musk declared...
Elon Musk's SpaceX, the aerospace company, is currently at its prime with Falcon and Starship.
But they never stop and will continue to do many things that no other organization in the space race can do.
Recently, the SpaceX tycoon announced its plans to build its own space base on the Moon.
SpaceX reveals NEW Alpha Moonbase SHOCKED NASA! Musk declared...This revelation has shocked NASA as well as Russia and China, as SpaceX aims to establish its lunar outpost using a fleet of Starship HLS spacecraft.
Let’s find out on today’s episode of Alpha Tech:
Elon Musk's ambition
SpaceX reveals NEW Alpha Moonbase SHOCKED NASA! Musk declared...Starship is a dream in development. Recently, it completed its third test flight, during which the spacecraft successfully took off and correctly separated from its first stage. Although the spacecraft and the booster that propelled it to orbital speed were lost, the mission achieved its goal, and the engineers behind the feat managed to gather enough information to further improve it.
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[alvermillioncranky]

I'm 71 and I remember JFK's speech. That was when I caught the Dream. I'd be willing to go and work on Luna Alpha Base One.

[linguistk]

Right! Who needs NASA to build a moon base when SpaceX can build one better, faster, and cheaper! Go SpaceX!

[Stephanie-pk]

I'm wondering about the 4 legged landing supports. Unless the landing zone is completely flat, it'll likely be tippy. 3 legs is stable regardless of flatness.

[DGC]

Alfa Moonbase sounds like a really good idea! NASA always has a problem of being funded then defunded So you'll never know if their moon base idea will ever come to fruition. Private companies seem like the most logical way of ever getting this accomplished.

[tbur]

Don't send the raptor engines back to earth, use them later on to build a 'lunar hopper' better known as Eagle :)

[lauriedooker]

Return a rocket engine ? To earth ? To reuse ? No way ! You know what a gallon of fuel goes for on the moon ? Well, me either but it’s more than a second hand rocket engines .

[billweaver]

4:32 Something tells me either the writer or the voice person (if real) has not heard of the Gerry Anderson series Space: 1999.

[jessiemartinfostersr.]

GENTALMAN, I AM IMPRESSED WITH YOUR VISION AND GOALS,
HOPE MY ACOLADES, CAN INSPÌRE YOU TO EVAN HIGHER GOALS, ,, YOU ARE GIVING A NEW MEANING TO THE AMERICAN VISION OF PIONEERING INTO SPACE,
MICHAEL FLEMMING WOULD HAVE BEEN SO PROUD TO HAVE
WORKED WITH YOU TOWARDS THAT GOAL ...

[pedrosura]

They should look into landing Starship horizontally like Space 1999. No need to turn it horizontal, more stable, no need for complex elevators…
Vertical landing makes no sense.

[thomassisk]

I have said from the beginning that SpaceX needs to make the SpaceX Bar and Grill Lunar location then throw welcome to the moon parties for everyone that comes after them

[yourhandlehere]

I still don't like that big elevator idea. They are going to get stuck outside their ship.

[wolfe]

Why send engines back to earth when you could keep them for spare parts

[mynameissolongbecauseilike]

I know it's a really cool idea and all but space is scary af.

[ColbyAzimuth]

They probably already thought of this but ...
Perhaps put one (or two or three) long steel *sleeves over the entire length* of the StarShip,
not for heat shielding but to be removed on the Moon surface for extra building structures, telescoping beyond the basic StarShip inside.
_Project Name: Elongate_

[ColbyAzimuth]

Big Question: When the first 3 Starships crash on impact, *_will there be a fireball in the vacuum of space?_*
We've had great results here on Earth, but the Moon has no atmosphere and 1/8th the gravity.

[brett]

How does the starship get on its side for the moon base?
How do they send raptors and other things back to earth if all the moon starships are oneway?
How to they refuel a starship to go back to earth without methane?

[mpdunner]

Fun idea to dram about. But nothing in this "planning" addresses the power and life support systems needed for sustained living on the moon. And where are the construction guys doing all of the "repurposing" of the sideways startup?

[garylester]

Glad to hear they are starting to work on moon base concepts.

One Idea I just recieved from the either, was building a lunar lander starship variant with the tanks as three external pods, equally sized, one hydrogen, two oxy, then the high Goddard cofiguration engines between them. This would allow having landing gear on outside of the three fuel pods, and having the cargo area of the central vertical ship hull close enough to the lunar surface to use a ramp for the cargo.
Then you could have your cargo elevator inside the ship between decks.

This would create a tip over proof design, and be way more practical than the tall configuration with the outside elevator.

Also the tanks and engines could be pinned onto the hull, for easy removal, or seperate launch back into lunar orbit to be reused as a lander for another hull. which could be a habitat, or tankage, or troop carrier module. This way you could bring stuff from Earth and get into lunar orbit, then get it to the lunar surface using two different systems. one an Earth orbit sub tank and engines, and second a lunar specialized. then you wouldnt need to transfer engines etc back and forth, just use a minimal engine system to exchange orbits. perhaps even with several hulls racked together for each trip, and using minimal thrust, and more time, on non perishable loads.

This would allow designing a system that was a standard diameter tube that any module type could fit into. and that pinned onto Earth lifter and into lunar lander/lifter module.

Translation: more efficient better designed system that leaves more of what you want on the Moon, and reuses the parts you dont need on the moon, or they could be repuposed via a shorty pod to fit into lander ring, to make lunar hoppers and lifters to orbit that were smaller as most cargo will be one way for the foreseeable future.

So, your Earth launcher stage goes under the hull, your lunar lander and orbiter stage goes around the hull.

I would recommend the standard diameter be an even ten meters, thats a nice size space in a round structure. like a very large Yurt for each deck.

Also another thought, instead of a crane to lay ships on their sides, perhaps consider using penetrator explosives to create a crater, and using the three tank lander to lower the pods into the crater. then take off the lander orbiter, back fill the crater, and for what sticks up, use clip togerher sheet metal rings to create a stepped tier system back filled with regolith. they could be filled by slinging regolith at the ship...
End result a stepped round pyramid shape that shielded the habitat pod, and stabilized it further.

And get away from living in round tanks on their side, and into large diameter Yurt like spaces with flat floors or decks and vertical wall or bulkheads.

Would help immensely with troop morale.

Also the elevator between decks could be centered and be a backup airlock... this way you could get past un pressurized decks.
As cargo areas better left hard vacuum to prevent stowaway vermin.

Way nicer system, upper decks could have nice views, lower decks very protected, way better cargo handling, and not shipping crap back and forth as much.
And these upright structures could be connected together via side hatches at surface level burried.
Way more pleasant living.. suggest the designer nerds try living in old tanks laid on their sides to promote reality based thinking...

[dalek]

I love it. Excellent name and great homage to Gerry Anderson. RIP
Perhaps attached balloons could be used to safely lower the Lunar ship horizontal. Retro booster to tilt over the ship,
then deflate the balloons until it's flat.

[darkfox]

Now we need to create a new deep space network system that is in orbit around the Sun to get wider communication skills. Could call it "orbital deep space network"