Does NASA & SpaceX's Plan with Artemis Make Sense?



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Does NASA & SpaceXโ€™s Plan with Artemis Make Sense? The journey to Mars! Over the past few decades, there have been some fascinating proposals to define which method, and what associated hardware, crew will use to make the trip. Though each mission profile is seemingly more feasible then the last, all have been far too expensive and potentially dangerous to justify the risk. That is changing. With the release of NASAโ€™s โ€˜Moon to Marsโ€™ strategy, we finally have a proposal that inches us ever closer. Of course SpaceXโ€™s Starship is set to lower the cost of โ€˜Mass to Orbitโ€™ by orders of magnitude giving these proposals a real chance to be implemented, and in this video, weโ€™ll take a look at what this path to Mars might look like and how it could evolve.

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50 thoughts on “Does NASA & SpaceX's Plan with Artemis Make Sense?”

  1. First secure level ,stable landing area ! Success of landings require this & not random landing area like in past,otherwise this whole program seems unprofessional and not well planned out – if you fail to plan ,you plan to fail – and Artemis seems like rush,rush without landing pad area of some sort

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  2. The space shuttle proved reliable through many crewed flights until it exploded. Crew rating is not "proven through many un-crewed flights". (What is that exactly – 10? 50? 100?) No, SpaceX will cerrainly need to make their spaceship safe the old-fashioned way, with REDUNDANCY, before getting another 1.15B US tax dollars to blow up crew in accidents.

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  3. My enthusiasm for SpaceX remains but it is very sad how political Musk has become. My admiration for him personally is waning. If he desires to benefit humanity, he should not be screwing with platforms like Twitter.

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  4. I totally agree, we need to go to the moon & Mars both – now Simultaneously. Letโ€™s get going.
    Donโ€™t waste time, sometimes the way to test to invent is in the act of do in doing. Some you know now what you need until you taking on the task.
    Even the best plans, the best research canโ€™t see all canโ€™t know all foresee all until you start the task of you goal !!
    So letโ€™s get going, we are way way to damn slow.
    Thereโ€™s no reason why we havenโ€™t sent pods for living & working with Annedroids to work and put them together on the Moon & Mars already !!
    We waste fund$ on other stupid BS!! This is a lot more practical.

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  5. why does NASA do a separate independent Mars mission, which is condemned to be extremely expensive.
    The normal way the precursor NACA followed was to support aviation, not invent airplanes.
    NASA leadership is totally out of control, just Artemis launch cost 3 orders of magnitude more than SpaceX's Starship.
    Huge waste of money.
    They are even unable to produce a Space Suit, that works.
    Compared to the pace of Apollo, it takes them 5 times more time to do a manned Moon landing program, and it is just a glorified repetition of tasks initiated 59 years ago, then all progress cancelled by short sighted politicians.

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  6. The most practical solution is existing rocket technology for a launch, with a small nuclear reactor for propulsion and electrical generation between earth and mars. No refueling and large storage required. There is definitely engineering solutions to make nuclear safe and itโ€™s a endless fuel supply. Since US Navy air craft carriers donโ€™t need refueling for decades.

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  7. Marcus:- I am relatively new here due to the woefully inadequate algorithms of Youtube and the dearth of dross they allow to be posted. Thank you sir for this haven of critical thought amongst the utter nightmare of commercially hijacked and useless information. Tim Berners Lee would be proud of you. You are the antipodean antidote to the wasteful western culture that will end us all before (ironically) , Elon and Nasa run out of Earthโ€™s resources and a way to get a few people off this beautiful yet seemingly doomed capitalist planet.

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  8. Yes, a Marcus-House video on ion propulsion would be welcome, but I also would like to hear what Marcus thinks about Zubrin's fear that a Starship landing on the Moon could fall into a hole it creates itself on landing, with its exhausts.

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  9. I remember the old lunar lander barely had room for a couple of people to stand in front of the console. The new one looks like it's at least room here maybe with a couple of them sit-down chairs and a color TV if weighed allows. LOL

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  10. Answer – no it does not! So why? – its an easy way to hide NASA funding for SpaceX without the expectation of any real working hardware to be developed/built. Did you really think the Air Force was buying $700 hammers?

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  11. Hey Marcus, just a point here, during another excellent video. The fuel depot allows that craft can be specialized per mission, such that fuel supplies can be lighter getting off earth, leaving more weight for human cargo needs. Other craft can be solely set for liquids without crew at all. Increasing the number of flights without wearing out crew. It also sets you up, as you said, to allow industry in space to operate without having to think about descent to get supply.

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  12. The problem with the moon is there is no weather to make dirt smooth and rounded. The dirt on the moon is like fine sharp glass that gets into everything and wears bearings and everything out quickly like sand paper would. Just imagine the moon is nothing but sand paper.

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  14. So, SpaceX flies Starship to the moon, waits for Artemis, Artemis docks with and transfers to Starship, then Starship lands on the moon. Why not just use SpaceX and Starship for the whole program?

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  15. Need to build a (SPACE PORT) so the Star Ship doesn't have to re-enter and land back on earth, use more fuel to launch again. Will save time and money. And all these launches are going to burn up our atmosphere. Refuel, inspect, change engines all in space. will save time from having to launch from earth again. Even static fire tests could be done in space.

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  16. I think they will also need to take a small modular nuclear reactor to both bases on the Moon and Mars. Not for propulsion but as a constant supply of power at a practical level. This power would be used to process any reclaimed water from the surface for fuel and oxygen. This will make starting the bases a lot easier especially with a ready source of oxygen! I think nitrogen will need to be taken as cargo at least to begin with.

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  17. I donโ€™t understand isnt it easier for rockets to take off from the moon verses earth? Why dont we build a lunar base with refueling station, crews quarters, science lab, and food that we can use as a stop iff point before manned missions to mars and other planets. They can take off from earth stop by the lunar base refuel and continue.

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  18. You've not commented on my question about a Space Port. The advantages are enormous. Saving tons of fuel from landing and taking off again. Turn around time and the list goes on and on .!! please comment.

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  19. Load up the tank With tritium go to the moon Scoop up all that H3 Helium Concentrated in those very Shaded Places Refine ,Multifaceted fuel Source Hydrolysis Pressure Vessel ,Chem Temp Fuse ,E.T.C. Moon Refuel Depot ,Alpha Beta !.

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