SpaceX Will Save NASA's Mars Mission?

I explain how SpaceX could end up saving NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission!

#SpaceX #starship #elonmusk #starbase

Editing: John Young, Alex Potvin, Stefanie Schlang
Photography: John Cargile, John Winkopp & Stefanie Schlang
3D Animation: Voop3D
Script & Research: Nathan, Soren, Oskar Wrobel, Felix Schlang
LIVE Production: Astro Roadie, Jonahan Heuer
Host: Felix Schlang
Production: Stefanie & Felix Schlang
Graphics & Media Processing: Jonathan Heuer, Felix Schlang

Credit:

⭐SpaceX
⭐NASA
⭐VirtualSpace_3D on X: @Lolomatico3d
⭐The Ring Watchers on X: @RingWatchers
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[rs]

NASA: “Ok we are going to need some help getting our Mars soil samples back to earth”
Northrop: “We can do it with a specific lander that will take some time and cost some money”
Boeing: “We can do it with a specific lander but it will take a lot of time and a lot of money. Plus we probably won’t even get the samples”
SpaceX: “Well we are building a Mars base. Want us to pick up your samples along the way?”

[benp]

Spacex: Do you want us to chuck some of the rubble from tunnel 4 into an empty starship and send it back?

[Andrew-]

Here’s an idea:
Send a simple, lightweight rover to Mars with three jobs: 1. Roam around and collect all the samples. Bring them to a collection point.
2. Have a mechanical arm to load all samples into a payload canister of a return rocket. Maybe two arms.
3. Have a 360-VR video camera with stereo microphones, held by the mechanical arm up at 5 feet above the ground to record all the rover trips around the Martian surface and transmit the data back to Earth so we can all experience walking on Mars in VR goggles…in 1:1 scale as if we were actually there. The VR camera can be used by the computer to autonomously load the samples onto the return rocket(s).

Return rocket:
Also, include one or two highly specialized Raytheon Patriot missile-derived rockets with solid propellant motors, as payload of a Falcon Heavy, along with the rover, packed inside a reentry vehicle with ablative shield. The Patriot, with some versions able to reach 160, 000 feet on Earth might be able to achieve escape velocity from Mars? …with its warhead replaced with a reentry module with extendable heat shield and parachute, that would carry the samples. It will be taking off in 1/3rd gravity through much thinner atmosphere, as if starting from 100, 000 feet altitude on Earth.

Target this mission for launch about December 2028.

[MrHeuvaladao]

Elon: "Aw, shit... here we go again"

[medtecha]

I hope they don’t give Boeing any money

[jorgecavaco]

Love your chanel, thanks for your content from Portugal

[henry-nkzy]

Starship can Transport the Länder to Mars and return!

[dominicbrunsmeier]

Ngl NASA became somewhat of a disgrace over the lack of budget.

[BIGJATPSU]

Tell us we didn't all know this was going to happen anyway years ago. My only error, I thought it'd be a HUMAN riding in a Starship bringing them back... still might be, never know.

[patrickhatton]

It could also be cool to see a return of the red dragon concept where if it can land accurately deploy a small Rover to retrieve samples and have it returned to the dragon, then dock with an interplanetary transfer stage. That'd be really cool

[LottoYt]

I wish all of them would combine into one company

[bradywomack]

Believe it when it happens. Over budget, late, and by a different company.

[homefront]

I wonder, if a private company had their own want to go to Mars, could they help subsidize the total cost?

[Tinman_]

Even a "small" amount of money from NASA to these companies doesn't guarantee the 'concept' or the follow thru of construction and execution of a mission

[jkoonce]

's a good thing that you're the middle man for all these companies and speaking for them otherwise we would never know u we todd did

[sanjosemike]

Solution for returning samples: Land SpaceX on Mars, which Musk intends to do anyway:

1. Set up SpaceX rocket with an "open bay door" on Mars. Put a few helicopters in the bay. Assign each one with a sample to pick up and return to the bay.

2. Close bay door after the samples have been retrieved: (Shut the pod bay doors, Hal). LOL

3. Take off from Mars. Meet it halfway with another SpaceX filled with fuel, to return it to the Earth. Transfer the fuel to the Mars returning rocket.

4. Land it on the Mechazilla.

Problem solved.

Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

[jjojo]

We shouldn’t think of any of this as a “competition” between GOV and Private Industry—but they work together to leverage each others advantages and disadvsntages! In the end, its a SPACE WIN FOR THE USA! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[keithscott]

Once they have the craft heading home, why don't they have international space station retrieve it?

[Andreas-ghis]

Right now they can't even reach and return from LEO. They need to get that finished before going to Mars, because Artemis is already behind because of SpaceX.

[musiqlgreen]

What about just send a starship with optimus on board and he goes out picks up the samples himself im jokingly serious, although that depends on how spread put the samples are