How SpaceX and NASA Will Colonize The Moon!

we choose to go to the moon and for the first time in five decades humans are setting their sights again on the moon as a destination for scientific accomplishment while going to the moon won't be easy we are fortunate that it won't be nearly as hard as it was back in the 1960s the apollo missions of the 60s pushed nasa's capabilities to the absolute limit people died in pursuit of the moon and others barely survived by the skin of their teeth you ever seen apollo 11 yeah that movie was crazy going to space back in the day was absolutely terrifying so if we can resurrect that sheer force of will that got us to the moon to begin with and combine that with the insane technology that we're packing in the modern day then not only will we be going to the moon but this time we'll be conquering the moon people will be living on the moon in this decade and doing so many other things so let's talk about that today hey elonites and musketeers welcome to the tesla space where we share the latest news rumors and insights into all things tesla spacex and elon musk alright did i fit enough kennedy speech references into the intro drop your fs in the comments for jfk man was a true og the artemis program is the new nasa mission to the moon that is scheduled to deliver the first astronauts in the year 2024. yes we are getting to spacex and elon musk and our usual fanboy stuff eventually but nasa are the ones leading the charge here and that's pretty damn cool this is the most ambitious thing that nasa has done in way too damn long and this project was born during the trump administration which is say what you will about him but the guy loves space so with the government finally on board providing the funding that they need nasa are flexing with the artemis program the first goal is to land people on the moon in 2024 the second goal is to establish an artemis base camp on the moon by 2028. that means people living and working on the moon in this decade this all starts with the sls rocket system and the orion as in oh my god it's ryan seacrest spacecraft sorry every time i read that i laugh now i know this is an elon musk channel and elon simps are going to be saying why didn't they use the falcon heavy rocket well the spacex falcons are just not strong enough for this particular job nasa's sls or space launch system rocket will take over the crown as the most powerful rocket booster ever made all of this is to get the orion spacecraft into orbit so that it can travel from the earth to the moon and back again orion can transport up to six people at once but the plan right now is to send four at a time the first test flight for sls and orion is scheduled for november 2021 and this will be an uncrewed flight that will accomplish a practical test of the whole system plus deliver some research satellites into each orbit a crude flight test is hopeful for 2022 that will take orion to a lunar orbit and back again and if all goes well then in 2024 we go to the moon and touch down before astronauts reach the moon's surface they first stop off at the gateway that's basically a space station very similar to the international space station that will be in orbit around the moon gateway is an international project that involves teams from nasa canada europe and japan the idea is to send the modules of the gateway up piece by piece over the next couple of years the whole miniature space station is designed to function autonomously it will use the canada arm version 3 to basically assemble and maintain itself while awaiting the crew yeah i know it's weird that we named our arm after our own country it's a bit extra but we don't get a lot of wins up here okay so let us have this one sorry anyway with the gateway established that will be a docking point for the orion spacecraft and a staging ground for the astronauts only two of them get to make the trip down to the lunar surface the other two artemis members will just hang out in the gateway this is where spacex joins the party transporting astronauts from lunar orbit down to the surface and back up again will be done by a spacex starship vehicle this is a modified version of the original starship design that spacex has been developing with nasa to meet the specific needs of a human landing system for the moon spacex beat out blue origin and dinetics to win this major contract with nasa that is valued at 2.9 billion dollars the moonlander starship will take off from earth on the super heavy booster with no crew and it will fly to lunar orbit where it just waits for the astronauts to arrive in theory the starship will just remain out there and can be reused as a ferry multiple times over and over the two people who land on the moon will remain there for one week doing experiments exploring the surface and living in the starship after that they head back up to the gateway and everyone returns to earth in the orion capsule nasa is using the old ways for this the orion isn't landing on earth it's just going to release a capsule that will fall down and parachute into the ocean now let's address the elon sims again because i know what you're saying this could be all accomplished with just one spacex starship and nasa's plan is incredibly wasteful and over complicated and yeah in theory that's absolutely true the only part of the whole orion system that actually comes back is the crew capsule everything else is wasted nasa sls rockets can't land themselves they're not reusable and that is unfortunate it's not the ideal way to do this but we've got to remember that nasa started this plan five years ago spacex did not have the proven track record back then that they do now and nasa couldn't just assume that spacex would deliver on all the things that they have promised to achieve so they went ahead and designed this program according to how nasa does things this is the first chance they've had to make anything really exciting in decades just let them have this one okay i'm sure we'll get independent starship flights from earth to the moon in the very near future and this is all the very early days of a long-term moon-based colonization program that is going to span decades by the way quick interruption as always here to invite you to all subscribe to our weekly tesla space newsletter we deliver all the updates on tesla spacex elon musk and of course neuralink in a quick fun and easy to read package link to sign up is in the description below it's the tesla space.com and once you sign up be sure to check your promotions tab to make sure our emails are going to your main inbox alright so we're on the moon now what well nasa wants to establish an artemis base camp on the surface and send new teams of astronauts up once per year to develop and expand the project but they are not the only ones with this idea china and russia have announced a joint venture to establish their own moon base obviously they're not going to tell us exactly what they have in mind for this particular mission we do know that china was able to land a probe on the dark side of the moon a couple years back so they are serious about this as well but what would be the point of colonizing the moon anyway this is where everything gets super speculative so don't take any of this part too seriously it's mostly just for fun so obviously there is still a lot that we don't know about the moon and what's up there a lot of nasa's mission is based on just doing experiments making new discoveries and hopefully learning new things about what goes on in space outside of earth's atmosphere there's a lot of science to be done but there are other reasons we might want to be on the moon and a big one is resources in the past we assumed that the moon was a big dead chunk of rock but we now know that there is more to it there is a lot of very useful stuff up there so mining on the moon could become a whole new industry for the future for one there is water on the moon it's frozen solid in the bottom craters that are in permanent shade from the sun and if there's water that means there's hydrogen and oxygen this would be a key in a moon based settlement if we can source water and breathable air on site then there are a ton of useful elements on the moon that we already know of helium-3 is a big one this is extremely rare on earth but it's present on the moon helium-3 can be used in the energy sector for things like nuclear fusion helium-3 could become the power source for life on the moon and it could be incredibly useful for energy here on earth as well we also know that the moon contains silicone iron magnesium aluminum manganese and titanium coincidentally a lot of the metals that we've found on the moon are very important for the production of our modern electronic devices particularly batteries and that is a very big deal so as much as this is about science and exploration right now i would expect that the long-term plan for the moon is going to be about resource extraction and that's pretty amazing though slightly concerning based off of our history with earth it's such an opportunity to be able to mine on the moon if we can shift resource extraction off of the earth and stop messing up our environment here that could save us as a civilization but again i'm pretty sure the moon is important so we probably still shouldn't destroy it but it is just a big chunk of rock and we can definitely mine and extract resources from it all we want nothing there to screw up in the way that we've been screwing up our own planet or at least less to screw up but those are just my thoughts on the matter let us know what the direction you think life on the moon will be going in the future in the comments section down below quick reminder to sign up for our newsletter for more tesla news and speculation there's a link down below again if you do sign up be sure to check your various inboxes and move us over to the main inbox so your valuable tesla space 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Length: 10min 7sec (607 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 25 2021