How SpaceX and NASA Plan To Build A Mars Colony!

How SpaceX and NASA Plan To Build A Mars Colony!

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[pary]

Came for the plan to colonise other planets and 5mins in and still getting a history lesson on Elon and SpaceX.

[jfrappier]

X is great and flourishing. I’d say him and Linda are doing a great job with it.

Vid was good too.

[General_Confusion]

If the Earth has only got a Billion years left, it's hardly worth me ordering that new lawnmower i was looking at.

[pfpchad]

Dude, you actually compared running Twitter to creating a Mars colony?

[davidadams]

Twitter is actually doing ALOT better…

[snrhufb]

Agreed. Nuclear propulsion is absolutely necessary for Mars colonization. If Starship/Space X could be equipped with nuclear engines- Game Changer!

[Gringosaurus]

How is twitter a failure? Advertisers abandoned it for political reasons not because the platform is broken. In fact its better than ever.

[stevenmitchell]

Nuclear thermal still requires massive amount of liquid fuel. A hybrid nuclear-powered ion/plasma engine would provide the necessary thrust and require less fuel. This concept requires these craft to stay in space thus requiring separate craft from surface to orbit and orbit to surface at each end of the trip. This therefore requires orbital "terminals/stations" for transfer of personnel, equipment, cargo, fuel, etc. between the separate craft. It's a matter of logistics and how to best address the needs. Alternatively, possibly a "frame" that would have six or more Starships docked into transport stations and then delivered to and from Mars with its own nuclear-powered ion/plasma drive. This would make the Starships themselves its cargo. Just an idea from an old, retired Industrial Design Engineer.

[dandevos]

Would it make more sense to 'colonize' the moon first and use that as a staging point to launch material to Mars....? Certaainly I don't know. Seems like a neat idea.

[d_baumberger]

Oh, PR project for NASA. I’d say nasa needs SpaceX more .

[chanchalibhuju]

I don’t think we’ll ever colonize mars.

[thundertmf]

i would imagine making a moon base would be far more practical than a mars excursion, for one the moon is right there, not eleventy trillion miles away, 2 the moon could be a launching staging point to get to mars later, 3 it would be a great beginning to train astronauts on the moon before attempting mars, 4 a moon base would be far easier to supply, maintain and man, and 5 it would be far cheaper to build it

[jroar]

A terminal/stations will also be required between Mars and Earth. Obviously it will have windows to make the trip and timing is extremely important. There might be time that crew will have to transfer to the station and wait until the distance becomes close enough to make the last part of the trip to Mars. So a number of StarShip will shuttle from Mars to the station and others will shuttle from Earth.

[MarkBarrett]

Nuclear engines are very heavy. The propellant is light and far more efficient, but the added weight of the nuclear reactor is a drawback.
The empty weight of the ship is heavier, but the loaded weight with propellant is less.
Also, nuclear reactors are very very temperamental to throttle controls. They don't like being off/on or quickly throttled.

[mundysmeadow]

As someone who works for the company in charge of the nuclear engine I am so excited for the future!

[MrJPI]

Saturn V could not put 50 metric tons to the surface of the moon, it could send about that amount towards the moon. The most part of that was the command and service module with its fuel. the lunar lander, LEM, weighted about 15, 800 kg, mostly fuel, and had an insignificant amount of crew life support supplies compared to its weight. So it makes no sense to estimate the needs for a Mars trip based on the TLI mass of about 50 tons.

[bradleywall]

NASA’s timeline for putting boots on Mars is a decade (at least) behind SpaceX’s ambitious plans. I think that NASA, ESA, and others will end up purchasing seats on a SpaceX trip to Mars before NASA is ready with a mission of their own.

[trautzz]

Glad to hear the suggestion that NASA SpaceX collaboration would help avoid catastrophe. Charging ahead is important, but so are decades of scientific testing and results, they could really benefit from working together.

[anomalous]

every single one of us is ready for mars after covid quarantine

[ADobbin]

personally I think they should stop trying to send starship to mars and instead use it to carry the materials and parts to build a giant ship in orbit. Use that to move stuff to mars and use a few starships as a ferry once you get there. Until they actually get to mars and try building something we can't tell how terrestrial materials will interact with the martian atmosphere, climates and gravity. They can model all they want but they wont know, which could leave the first manned trip kind of up a creek with no canoe, no paddle and short on water in the creek.