How SpaceX Will Build The First Moon Base

How SpaceX Will Build The First Moon Base

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[alfonsopayra]

so the title of this video should be "How do I think SpaceX will build a moonbase"

[JesbaamSanchez]

1:40 the reason why you would want white paint is to deflect as much solar radition/heat as much as possible. White is known for its best deflection of all visible wavelengths. The Northrop Grumman Moon lander had that thermal blanket Kelvar to protect it's equipment from the exteme heat and cold. So no it's not a marketing choice.

[richardbloemenkamp]

Well, if you need a horizontal interior in a Starship, then why not send one that has a mostly horizontal interior from the start. During the travel in space there is no gravity so not preferred orientation. The few hours during take-off/landing they can manage in some orientation adjustable seats like they have in Dragon.
Furthermore, if they want to put the starship from vertical to horizontal on the moon, then they can already at some extendable supports, hinges, hoisting structure etc. on the starship from the start. It is not that you fly the Starship to the Moon, land vertically and then decide that it might be a good idea to put it horizontal. Planning is everything in space flight.

[lawrencemanning]

That conversation from vertical configuration to a horizontal configuration is never gonna happen and is a mental idea. Much more sensible would be to launch it like that, but presumably it would have to have no crew aboard.

[dpjanes]

It might be easier just to launch a starship mostly configured for horizontal use and landing. Then use another Starship or a tug of some sort to move it to the moon.

[Bulletin-mfdy]

The ideal solution would be for Space X to make HLS modular. Essentially if the crew portion of the ship could pop off and be lowered down via crane it could function as a lunar habitat without the need for renovations. Add a dedicated transport vehicle and it could be relocated anywhere. By placing them into a hexagonal ring, connecting them together via corridor, Space X could create a 7 module lunar base with each module possessing 4 stories. Next, use the crane to set down the fuel tanks so that they can be converted into a storage facility, laboratory, garden, machine shop, rover parking, and etcetera. Moreover, if the legs could pop off and be pop into pre-built hard points on the fuel tanks sides, it would stabilize the tank and mitigate the need for digging a trench to stop it from rolling. This could be made easier through the use of pre-built doors that could be bolted on with built-in cutting guides for astronauts to cut a clean hole. Once renovated and reinforced, both the habitat and storage facility can be covered with compacted and hardened regolith to finish Stage 1 of the lunar base.

[nuwave]

Leave it vertical and re-use the tanks, with pre-installed floors as perforated tank baffling, for expansion space. Have 2-3 floors of finished hab with extra equipment to be moved into the lower decks later. The ship and tanks can be shorter than currently designed, since there is no intention to leave the moon, and less likely to tip over. quarters on the lower levels and shield the bottom of the ship with regolith, bulldoze, sandbag or 3d print bricks. Circumferential water-wall on higher levels.

[thomasherzig]

when they use the hull of lunar starship as a moon habitat enclosure, they need to bring a second starship that brings the crew back to lunar gateway at least. And each starship needs 10-12 more starship launches to be refilled in LEO.
Then you only have an empty hull. All the modules for ceilings, walls furniture, and machinery still needs to be brought as cargo/ payload extra. if you install optimized inflatable moon habitat modules and cover them with loose regolith. you can fit all the required components into the cargo compartment of one starship and this one starship is available for leaving the moon again

[steves]

1st thing humans will build on the moon: cemetery

[nutier]

Awesome video ! Thank you for sharing . Happy Friday to you !

[lordslygentleman]

I could swear this was an episode from Star Trek. The one with Captain Archer, I think?

[judahdatoy]

My Take. Is that the first starship to land on moon inside a crater cave or very very close to a cave mouth and land on its side. The head of ship detaches and it is actually a Boring Tunnel Worm, that would immediately bore a tunnel unto the ground connecting the moon-lava-tunnels or accessing Lunar-Cave.

The rest of starship cargo are lunar rovers and Optimus's and they will work on sealing the formed tubular caves with regolith tiles and, pressurizing the tunnels, and cementing living spaces.

Next Starship are Human Colonists of the Moon that will install other infrastructure, mapping out, human type of jobs, etc.

A full Starship could be an entire farm for greens, mushrooms, oxygen source, water facility and it is also landing on its side on the Lunar Colony.

[nickrakemer]

Instead of tipping over the vertically landed StartShip on Moon and Mars, Space X can simply build a StartShip version that does a flip maneuver just before it touches ground and make it tip over gently with cold gas thrusters on top cushioning the impact on legs installed on the SIDES of the Ship

[manikantaperneedi]

Who wants to go to space atleast once in their lifetime

[Comin_at_U_Live]

Can you imagine waking up and finding yourself on the moon..? Just for that split second it would be crazy ..

[xXSwaghetti.YoloneseXx-ufbb]

Also, will the inital lunar Starship have wet-workshop capability, maybe not pressurised but to use the empty fueltanks as storage?
I don't think they'll be any starship tipping for a long time, the effort it would take to remodel the interior in-situ is crazy, better off sending a lunar starship up that has inflatable modules that can be covered with regolith - which could be done using automated rovers. I don't think we'll see any "building" done on the moon within the next decade, but a moon brick factory using regolith and 3d printing would be cool.
Furthermore, will the lunar starship have some sort of cover on the nose solar panels? I'd be surprised if they're not damaged on the way up due to the extreme speeds.
Is there going to be a backup ladder to get down/up?

[_Abjuranax_]

Even rotating around a gyroscope located in the nose could possibly safely lay the craft on the moon from its upright position.

[wthharrison]

Might be best to make it land vertically. Put landing legs on the front, middle and back. Put the draco thrusters front, middle and back. If it's going to stay and not come back. Make the insides for this type of stay.

[bobfree]

Lunar thrusters toward the top of the lander is primarily about not kicking up damaging lunar dust.

To guard against tippage, it'd be best to put the thrusters near the top (as indicated in most renderings) - NOT near the center of mass, assuming the bottom is essentially a pivot.

[RickyDownhillRDH]

They could just design and build the interior of the starship in a "horizontal orientation" here on Earth, that would make more sense. Also if they have those landing thrusters at the top maybe they could burn the ones on the right to get the ship to start tipping and then as it starts to fall ignite the ones on the opposite side for just an instant to slow down the momentum as it falls the the moons surface. Just a thought.