NASA and SpaceX unveil a new plan to colonize Mars with Starship!

It turns out that NASA is interested in colonizing Mars after all! And this time, they have a plan that relies completely on Starship! But will it work?
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[BrianKelsay]

To be fair to SpaceX and Elon, the ESA laughed about being able to land a booster. SpaceX did it. It took several tries and infrastructure, but it worked and brought down the cost of launch. Same with heavy lift. They landed all 3 boosters, two on land and one far downrange. Then they caught a booster the size of a building. Send robots, robot driven dozers, robot builders and planters. Clear a landing pad, set up a drill rig for water, a tank to store it once a large source is found, then set up the Sabatier devices and reactor. From a protected distance, setup a bunch of long tents for farming tests. Whatever equipment you need to process the soil to remove perchlorates and add nutrients should be near the tents. Bury a water pipeline from storage tanks to the soil system and the grow tents. Just keep sending robots, supplies and devices before humans go.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

[jeremyoberg]

Starship isn't just one rocket design from one company. Starship is the first of a new class of space vehicles. Starship class vehicles can be designed and manufactured with different specialties by different companies in the future.

[TitanIV_Pad_Rat]

One thing that Elon has stated. I don’t know if he still holds to it. But the first set of colonists should be prepared to live out their entire life on Mars. For the first several groups it is a one-way trip. Not to have them go and die, but you have them go and truly colonize. Just as the pilgrims came to the states without having a thought of going back. So if you have volunteers that are willing to go and be true colonization that eliminates a lot of the issue of return flights. It is possible that somewhere in their future there may be a spot on a starship coming back that they could actually come back. But I’m pretty sure that he’s requesting his volunteers to be committed to a one late trip.

[i-love-space]

This one of the best Angry Astronaut episode in quite a while. Good job.

[tompava]

Set goals, make progress. Time is important but, it is also the last consideration. Most "agencies" doing "studies" do not live in SpaceX world. Which is why no one else is doing what they are doing.

[richinvancouver]

Notice how the paper doesn’t mention Optimus robots. Elon mentioned them going to mars in the first wave. Image 100s that can be tasked and monitored 24/7. No sleep just a few charges in the 24 hours. The work that could be accomplished is mind boggling.

[yas]

Thanks! Appreciate all of the research and the team for all that you do! ❤🎉

[antonnym]

For landing pads, we could use a front-end loader type of bulldozer which would be nuclear powered. It could excavate a nice, flat area for a landing pad, then melt the excavated regolith to form a "lava" which would then be re-deposited back into the excavated area. Would make a very nice, flat, smooth, heat-resistant base for landing a Starship.

[the_new_project]

This is where Optimis will be very important and a game changer.

[Orion]

Angry Astronaut: We need water collectors, power, storage, infrastructure...
Elon: Soooo, more Starships then?

[thexfile.]

Mars is like a roach motel, you check in but you don't check out. 😂

[GreatBumbino]

It’d actually kind of make sense to send people along on the initial robotic mission too. They can stay in orbit, as long as you have supplies for them, and then you have a crew that can run operations without having to deal with a time delay. You get reps in keeping people alive out there without the risk of landing them on Mars first too.

[antonnym]

Outstanding Graphics by Mark Thank you for reporting on this! Mars is my specialty (and some would say it is my home planet.) You have to love that Noctis area at the west end of the Valles Marineris. How ironic and full-circle would it be if we make use of the ice there to the extent we end up sending it by artificial canals to other settlements? 2028 is ambitious. I would love to be around to see that.

[i-love-space]

Clearly, we will need YEARS of robotic missions to construct the infrastructure to insure that humans don't die when we finally send them.
And for all you guys out there that say that the effort to go to Mars would be better spent on figuring out how to live sustainably on Earth, I say you are pretty well correct. However, the effort we will harness to survive on the Moon and Mars will be exactly what we need to survive on Earth. It will make us be able to survive some sort of planet killing disaster.

[pandemik]

Currently SpaceX Falcon launchs 1-2 times per week. That will be the cadence of fully reusable startship. That will also come a lot sooner than you think. Such low cost tonnage to orbit solves so many problems. It means much lower cost to mars.

[patelk]

SpaceX should put a few Optimus Bots in their next Starship lauch just to see how they fare.

[gbye]

I love that you question everything, but still are enthusiastic about space.

[alanrickett]

Anyone else remember when angry wanted fast development and people to try new things

[jessematlock]

Love watching Mars colony's exploring type subject's.thanks

[DanVolk]

Great perspective, which of course, I expect.

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