LOP-G: Our Gateway to the Stars

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[@megaprojects9649]

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[@Jobe00]

The Imperial to metric to Imperial was genuinely funny. It is one of the most amusing thing you have ever said, Simon.

[@boldandthebeautifulgimbal2881]

Omg even your mail is bespoke. Mine just has my name on it, not always but that’s because I forgot to write it on.

[@boldandthebeautifulgimbal2881]

Am I trolling you? No I don’t think so, I’m too affable and I like scouse people.

[@livinginvancouverbc2247]

Hi Simon, let me help out with your math... 12:11 30,000 meters/second is 30 kms per second which is much slower than 45 kms per second. 13:33 Typical New York City apartment is 866 sqft divided by 10.76 = 80.48 sq M X 2.4 (8 ft ceiling) = 193 cubic metres, therefore the module at 125 cubic M has 64.7% of the volume of a typical New York City apartment. The thing is, I'm supposed to be working on an estimate but I got sick of doing math so I came here to relax.

[@boldandthebeautifulgimbal2881]

@@livinginvancouverbc2247 You’re doing a take off?

[@RobsRetinue]

I’m waiting for the Whistler mega-project, where Simon cracks immortality and becomes a technologically advanced sentient KZbinr throughout all time and space. The whistleverse.

[@Vaeldarg]

(trying to spread this idea around, since better for it to be in the open than hidden away) One form of immortality does seem increasingly close to being "cracked": the brain-in-a-jar approach. There are artificial hearts, ECMO machines are able to regulate blood oxygen (being used when ventilator doesn't cut it for a COVID-19 patient that has had their lungs damaged/collapsed), and dialysis as artificial kidneys. Every way someone dies can be boiled down to "brain stopped working". Keep the brain alive and protected=immortality in reach of current tech. Connect up some BCI tech to bring the senses to a personal virtual environment connected to the internet/metaverse/robots/etc. and there ya go.

[@megaprojects9649]

The dream.

[@nenmaster5218]

@@megaprojects9649 The Science of Dreams would be an interesting Topic for soon. Why do we dream and more importantly: When is the much-needed Tech discovered that makes you sleep dreamless? Me and others really need it.

[@mrshinebox1803]

I'd say don't give him ideas, but if you watch Business Blaze you already know that this is exactly what he wants.

[@Naptosis]

@@nenmaster5218 Have you tried mild brain damage? I suffered from meningitis in 2020 and since then, that voice that reminds me of all the embarrassing things I've done just before sleep, has gone. Dreamless sleep and no more stress from that nagging voice in my head. I recommend it 😅

[@youssefelamrani7905]

Space Mega-projects are the best ever, Looking forward to witness the Starship MegaProject

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

True, I like the near future stuff, keeps ya optamistic

[@grimd8788]

👆 this, yes please.

[@Ghostvertigo]

Word.. enough said

[@danielschmidt2186]

Yeah, link up a dozen or so starships in a giant rotating ring to build a sort of artificial gravity ferris wheel O'Neal cylinder variation. We probably want to send two fully self sufficient space stations like this in order to have redundant life support infrastructure orbiting Mars. Probably set one up orbiting Diemos and the other orbiting Mars. Establishing something of an economy between a Diemos colony, Mars Colony, two space stations, and Earth/Earth’s moon makes a Mars Colony realistic. Just establishing a base on the surface of the moon is so risky. Two redundant space stations for Martian crews to retreat to gives so much more security. In the best case scenario, a simple economy exchanging resources between the surface and orbit would spur innovation and motivate real permanent settlement.

[@homer9k655]

Given how open Elon has been with other youtubers I would imagine an interview and/or a guided tour of the facility would be possible.

[@JeromeDoyle]

"why am i going from imperial to metric to imperial?" as a Canadian this is an all too common problem in my part of the world. being a former commonwealth and current besties with the United States got us all messed up.

[@nicholascorbett1256]

How do you think we feel. I dont know the actual percentage, but it feels like 60/40 with imperial being the majority. However it's changing. From working on vehicles, running pipe, and building homes. But I'd have to say the major one being cars and trucks. Used to ask my dad all the time "why do you have so many wrenches and sockets with different numbers, I see 3/8" and then I'd see 15mm, then 1" "he said because of the foreign vehicles, and now America vehicles " and it really confused me and for a little bit kept me from wanting to work on my own vehicles. But now I can look at a bolt and can pretty much guess what size I need lol

[@FreeThePorgs]

'cause *AMERICA*!!!!!!!!!! USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!USA!!!!!!!!!!FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!GUNS!!!!!!!!!! Also, we the USA so let's just do something different because we can to be dic*s!!!!!

[@brett4264]

As an American, I propose that we all go to metric measurements but we all, also, go to Fahrenheit temperature measurements. It more refined for exact temps indoors. Who cares that it's lined up with melting and boiling points of water.

[@ROMAQHICKS]

@@brett4264 I agree, I wish we would use the metric system, I use it all the time at work and is far superior in almost everyway. Though, having a Celsius thermostat with half, degree increments would be alright (I have only encountered ones with whole degree); just enough control to make fine adjustments.

[@kamui004]

Down south of the USA we're faced with the same problem. We're taught metric with a sprinkle of imperial here and there. But most tools and machinery are imperial or /sigh US customary units or face juggling tools from two different standards with their caveats. And F farenheit and exact temps indoors when using Celsius fits a lot of everyday uses, I know 20 degrees is a mild cozy temp, 15 is chilly, 25-30 is hot, 0 water freezes and 100 water boils and 70+ is good for soup/coffee.

[@dyrnott8334]

As popular as your channel is this might have already been mentioned in the comments. I love your channel but you said that Mars is our nearest neighbor which isn’t even close. Venus our nearest is 31 million miles away, Mercury is 2nd at 66 million miles away with Mars is a staggering 202 million miles away. Still love your show and hope people don’t try to pick me apart for a negative comment! ☺️

[@BHBalast]

How many of football fields is that??

[@dyrnott8334]

There is about 17.6 American football fields so 545.6 million to Mercury, 1.1616 billion to Venus and 3.555.2 billion American football fields to Mars lol

[@dyrnott8334]

17.6 American football fields in a mile I meant to say 😂

[@kathybell616]

Oh man, I actually beat the guy who says, "great video." Even though it just posted....wow Im early!

[@damanigrey8123]

Great video

[@danhammond8406]

Great video

[@ilarious5729]

Great video

[@Blackadderthefourth]

Great video

[@mattfleming86]

I've deduced that it's Simon's mom doing that.

[@zachsavage851]

Video starts at 1:44

[@edwardmcginniss8741]

Thank you

[@gohan661]

I actually don't know how people on phones can use KZbin, with all the pre-roll, mid-roll and sponsorship announcements. 100% unusable imo, thank jeebus for Pi-hole and ad blocker.

[@vustvaleo8068]

little that people know that space stations are real life Voltrons, I mean they are multiple things that combine into a larger thing. "AND I'LL FORM THE HEAD" 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁

[@RaderizDorret]

Ion/Hall Effect is cool... but NERVA would have enabled a 3 month trip from LEO to Mars with the right window. Nuclear thermal propulsion is 2x as efficient as LH2/LOX engines in vacuum with good thrust characteristics. Not enough to get to orbit but once you're up there?

[@robertfindley921]

The Shackleton Crater should be named the Worsley Crater since Ernest Shackleton repeatedly almost got his crew killed. But his navigator, Frank Worsley, repeatedly pulled off miraculous feats of navigation that ultimately got them rescued.

[@bis1254]

Instead of putting the LOP-G in an orbit based on communications needs how about putting some communications satellites into moon orbit? Has that been looked at and were any conclusions drawn?

[@planetdisco4821]

Yes, I believe China is doing it…

[@Skraeling1000]

A seventy year lifespan in the 1700's - born while there were horses and carts, died when there were horses and carts. A seventy year lifespan in the 1800's - born while there were horses and carts, died when there were steam engines. A seventy year lifespan between 1950's and now - born while there were airplanes, died when there were interplanetary spacecraft. I was born before sputnik, and I still find it mind-buggering to see how far we have come in a comparatively short time.

[@Raj-gr6dy]

And sometime we're gonna get an FTL capable ship... probably Hopefully I live to see the first interstellar spacecraft (unmanned ones are OK as well)

[@lerg_0]

Voyagers are sort of interstellar :)

[@Skraeling1000]

@@lerg_0 true, lol, taking the relaxed scenic route!

[@GregHighPressure]

MP Simon is by far the most wholesome version...

[@nenmaster5218]

I love to give scientific Watch-Suggests, but many cant handle the Randomness of this Offer. Can You?

[@zachhodgdon8492]

Please do a video on Starship/ Superheavy! Both the lunar lander variant and the standard LEO/mars version

[@TheChronozoan]

I don't think I can possibly describe how Crest fallen and disappointed I would be if this project doesn't make it there. It would be the moon landing that I never got to live through. And it would be such a feat to succeed too.

[@tonyatthebeach]

We can put you in a huge catapult and aim for the moon. You'd probably burn up before you got there but theoretically some bits of you might make it. What do you say big guy?

[@Xerox-1961]

I'm 61 and I remember the first one. Everyone stopped everything everywhere in awe. I remember in Atlanta people stopped their cars at the t.v. store and crowded around the windows. And guess what? I might live to actually see both in one lifetime. Once for politics ,and now for the right reasons .My dad took me out on the front step of our house and pointed up at what was close to a full moon and said" There are people right up there." I was nine.

[@mhoppy6639]

@@Xerox-1961 brilliant post. Can’t believe how much/little money has gone into this so far… the point about the F35 illustrates perfectly what Eisenhower was talking about in his farewell address…

[@twinphalanx4465]

It would be something hopeful for our generation to rally behind

[@johnrichards244]

330 million? It would cost more than that just to get all the components launched

[@Kingstallington]

A hohmann transfer will always take roughly the same amount of time once a craft is up to speed and its apoapsis is high enough for it to get caught in the target bodys gravity well if everything is where is it should be in the orbit. The only problem with ion thrusters is their thrust to weight ratio and getting up to that speed may take several burns taking advantage of the oberth effect by burning closer to periapsis but taking time doing orbits in between burns. Or a less efficient big burn while passing periapsis but losing energy burning radail in and out. A low thrust to weight ratio engined craft would also have to start burning retrograde earlier once it reached its target bodys gravity well. The great thing about ion thrusters though is their efficiency and the craft wouldn't have to do a hohmann transfer and could burn for longer picking up more speed as long as it had enough ∆v and could slow down again once it was approaching or in the target body gravity well. Don't let anyone ever tell you video games can't teach you anything all that was learned playing Kerbal Space Program.

[@debott4538]

Yes, KSP FTW! 🚀 But keep in mind that for human missions to the moon, they'll most likley not go for the standard homann transfer. During Apollo they aimed for a free-return-trajectory, which is quite a bit faster. About three days to the moon, I think.

[@BoyKissBoy]

Yeah, I'd be surprised if they'd do anything but a free return trajectory when they have humans on board. For uncrewed missions, I would assume they'll go for whatever is cheapest, which I assume is whatever requires the least fuel. Not because of the cost of the fuel, but because of the weight. Less fuel = more cargo capacity. Thoughts?

[@biwan428]

Two sentences in, and I knew you were a Jeb kinda guy.

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

20:30 Wallace and Gromit also reached the moon with their space program.

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

Only to find out Moon cheese tastes just like cheddar, with just perhaps a touch of wendslidale.

[@A._is_for]

He needs a fantasy projects channel covering babylon 5 or ds9 etc...

[@DeliveryMcGee]

Orbit is throwing yourself at the ground and missing.

[@robertanderson5092]

42

[@nicosmind3]

Just clicked, hoping Zubrin and others rejections gets brought up. Zubrin calls this the Lunar Tollbooth as a dig to what a waste of money it is in every way

[@rundownpear2601]

Haven’t watched yet but to give NASA some credit LOP-G is now it’s own thing separate from Artemis, landers and Orion aren’t required to dock at the station

[@nicosmind3]

@@rundownpear2601 none of that makes it any better. This is just another NASA project designed to meet the wants of its vendors, and not designed to fulfill a goal first. It's the wrong way round, the vendors should be there to meet NASAs needs, but if you're a NASA employee with good connections then setting up your own business that gets a steady stream of money from NASA is a great way to retire

[@Steph.98114]

No mention of how starship is being used as the liner lander? It's honestly hilarious when you compare the size of starship to the gateway

[@commanderdreg]

from playing around in KSP, the lower power of the new hall effect thrusters shouldn't have to much effect on the time to get to the moon, it will only have an effect on the time it takes to execute the burn.

[@LordFalconsword]

By definition, that is part of the time it takes to get to the moon. In Apollo, it was the time they began their trans-lunar injection burn until they braked into orbit. With hall-effect, it's the same, except they'd have to execute a dozen such burns at the low point of each orbit.

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Can you do the history of The Thunderbirds? Not the TV show, the AIRSHOW! The aircraft are always evolving, the history is decades long, tragic, and they've entertained millions. Thank you from Nellis AFB, home of The Thunderbirds!!

[@duncanbrock7303]

Them and the Blue Angels would be an awesome video.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:20 - Chapter 1 - Orbital origins 6:55 - Chapter 2 - To orbit 14:55 - Chapter 3 - Construction 17:10 - Chapter 4 - Operation & orbit

[@schumzy]

He's really dialed in his waffling.

[@amandajones661]

I love videos like this. It's amazing to think where we will be in just 50 years.

[@kingsquirrel6068]

I just hope i see some cool stuff before i die

[@brett4264]

In 50 years, Boeing will have figured out it's software and we'll finally be going to the moon.

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

I know right, I'm doing projects on the next 50 years in space its just so interesting and keeps ya optimistic about humanity in general

[@benjaminmontenegro3423]

@@brett4264how pessimistic

[@KriLL325783]

"Chemical rocket engines are the only engines able to overcome the earth's gravity" Seems Simon isn't familiar with Project Orion "ol' boom boom" the nuclear bomb powered rocket.

[@cheeseninja1115]

damn anti space based nuclear weapon orbiting satellite treaties for stopping us from traversing space with the use of literal nuclear bombs and a big spring

[@efulmer8675]

I am generally in favor of not using nuclear bombs on the Earth because of fallout and blast wave concerns, but once already in space this would be an excellent means of propulsion.

[@musewolfman]

Pretty sure it's a bad idea to launch things from earth using nukes. Also, can you actually call a bomb an 'engine'?

[@JohnBlackburn1975]

Yes and also the nuclear salt water rocket (untested) and nuclear thermal rockets (tested on Earth but never flown: the DRACO project is meant to actually fly one). So there are 3 nuclear rocket designs.

[@efulmer8675]

@@musewolfman No, because it does not have any moving parts. It can be called a motor though, because it does not have any moving parts.

[@alrightydave]

4:07 no, anything orbiting Earth with a periapsis above the atmosphere at 200km will be going anywhere from 7.8km/s to about 11km/s

[@GtDowns]

There was NEVER a lunar orbiting space station proposed until it was realized that the SLS wasn't powerful enough to get the heavy Orion capsule into a low lunar orbit (although the Saturn 5 could get the Apollo capsule and it's lander into LLO). The only experiments you need to do while orbiting the moon is to test different types of radiation protection for 'deep' space and this sure doesn't require a multi-billion dollar space station. As far as Mars goes, no past proposals (dating back to Werner Von Braun) suggested a requirement for a lunar space station. The LOP-G is just a money project to get money to the traditional aero space contractors like Boeing, Lockheed and Northrup Grumman. We should go with something like the earlier proposed European Lunar Village concept.

[@zanbaktoo420]

I would love to get more info on this?

[@RuralJuror420]

Do you have actual proof?

[@dahyperhawk]

@@RuralJuror420 proof, sls does not have the physical capability to put orion in LLO nasas own number say so

[@UpperDarbyDetailing]

It is not “just” a pork project. It gives astronauts a place to work in lunar orbit, plus a place to transfer between Orion and HLS. Not only that, but it could be later expanded into a shipyard for building anything from probes to the entire craft that will take a crew to Mars or Venus. Let’s be honest, bigger is better for that trip, and getting something big off of Earth is insanely expensive. Better to mine the materials on Luna and build it in lunar orbit. A Martian HLS or Venusian atmospheric buoyancy craft can be sent up from Earth to rendezvous with the much bigger craft, then be used for landing and ascent.

[@RudolfGraspointner]

If I was in charge, I would have a space-station parked at the Earth-Moon L1 Lagrange Point.

[@rundownpear2601]

That was Gateways original location but they moved it

[@iamarokotmanson]

What's the purpose of a lunar space station?

[@merafirewing6591]

​@@iamarokotmanson Your mom.

[@MaheerKibria]

so 866sqft is actually very useful once you realize that ceiling height is basically standardized in the USA to about 10 ft so 8660 cubic ft or 245 cubic meters so basically 1/2 of a new york apartment worth of space

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Yes, you succeeded in making this jumble of atavistic cave-man units even less relevant to anyone. Well done you!

[@okankyoto]

Its been re-renamed to just "Gateway" now. (Probably good since "LOP-G" is cumbersome.) iHAB and ESPRIT have been co-manifested on SLS Block 1B launches for Artemis IV and V, and Orion will dock them to to Gateway. If the landing itself gets pushed back, the missions will still go to Gateway ensuring no part of the program getting delayed will prevent returning at least to Lunar orbit!

[@jamesrwinters]

Last I heard they were struggling to keep the mass of iHAB low enough to keep it comanifested on SLS. If the mass goes too high they can likely still launch on another launcher, but then the EUS won't have a good justification on Artemis IV.

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

Well he's clearly just future proofing for when it gets re-re-renamed

[@okankyoto]

@@jamesrwinters Actually B1B had their co-manifested payload situation improve with CDR. The iHab already had a huge mass reduction (to Cygnus diameter) due to fears that the EUS would be cancelled during the Trump administration. But EUS has been fully funded by congress the entire time (ignoring the administration's requests.) Meanwhile the Biden administration has fully supported Block 1B along with Congress. EUS is happening on Artemis IV forwards regardless of payload, metal is already being bent for the first EUS. Block 1B is actually pretty far along. Along with the first test casings for the BOLE boosters for Artemis XIII. (Block 2)

[@dakotahrickard]

Thank you for the excellent video. As one of the Negative Nellys on your Artemis video, I appreciate the end of this one: putting everything into perspective. It doesn't mean politicians won't put their interests before those of humanity, but it does mean that if we can get there in the end, people won't look back and remember the strife we had but the strides we took.

[@dakotahrickard]

@Tom Foster True enough, as it always has been. However, when the dust settles, maybe nobody will see the triumph instead of the tragedy, through the lens of history.

[@limabravo6065]

Wow somebody made a video on the infrastructure we need in space to make going to Mars or commercializing space viable, well done Simon

[@iamarokotmanson]

We don't need a small NRHO space station to make going to mars possible

[@robinheil]

Suggestions for future videos: New York City Water Tunnel Number 3 (will take over 50 years to complete) and Reversing the Flow of the Chicago River (Dubbed the "Civil Engineering Landmark of the Millennium" by the American Society of Civil Engineers)

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

Would you guys do an episode on the 2030s space station proposals?

[@LG123ABC]

Wouldn't it be better to have one ship that specializes in going from the Earth to an Earth-orbiting space station and then have another ship that specializes in going between the Earth space station and the moon (like they did in the movie 2001)? Couldn't you just use the moon as a launching point for interplanetary missions?

[@debott4538]

It would be more efficient. But don't forget that space is still incredibly dangerous for astronauts. That's why the Orion space craft is engineered to allow a safe return return to the Earth at any point during a mission, just in case something goes wrong. You couldn't do that if you first had to transfer to another vessel.

[@alrightydave]

18:48 most people would point this out as an inaccuracy but since I’m obsessed with COLS, I’m gonna say this is some good foreshadowing from you

[@SimonAmazingClarke]

The Lunar gateway sounds like the most complicated way to solve these problems. It sounds like its designed by a commitee who all want a piece of the manufacturing pie. Starship plus crew dragon, job done.

[@surferdude4487]

Nah. Just Starship.

[@aaronak2005]

Absolutely love when you do space videos! 🚀

[@twinphalanx4465]

How about a megaprojects or a biographical video on Simon's KZbin career, I feel that would be a pretty funny April fool's video

[@mikeguilmette776]

Sheesh, that'd be the longest of all his videos . . .

[@Chris.Davies]

VIDEO STARTS AROUND 7:12

[@boldandthebeautifulgimbal2881]

Simon OMG!!! Get a captains chair like the one from Voyager.

[@ericthompson3982]

I keep my hydrozene in the attic. The raccoons monitor the storage module, so win/win.

[@hankblaster]

Your comparisons are NOT pointsless. They make sense.

[@stephenkwasek1933]

Classic Simon. This one made me tingle. Today I'm proud to be a human. Oh! Let me live to see some of it. Politicians stop throwing stones and see the amazing potential of mankind. Simon you just rock!

[@twinphalanx4465]

This is exactly how I feel every time I see something that pushes us towards the future we keep getting promised I want my cybernetics nanomachines helpful ai give me my god damn starships so I can have some hope for humanity to go on

[@spritemon98]

Simon's wearing just a tshirt? The world is ending

[@vsGoliath96]

$332 million is such an insultingly small budget for something like this. Hell, the US just completed a $10 billion aircraft carrier. God forbid we put that money towards something like NASA.

[@robertgotschall1246]

This is all great, but I'm still holding out for taking off in a rocket from Earth and landing it directly on the Moon, Duck Rogers style. But no reverse gear on the rocket engine.

[@rockyduggan235]

Maybe do an episode on "fragging" that occurred during the Vietnam War. It's rarely talked about.

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

Because it basically meant that one American soldier was killing another. In other words, fratricide.

[@Piperdreams]

@@STSWB5SG1FAN I’ve no words

[@nicksande6880]

*holds apple* "The power of a rocket engine, in the palm of my hand"

[@thomasoberg1238]

Can you make a video about the Swedish fighter jet jas 39 gripen or the Swedish submarines the Gotland class and the Södermanland class?

[@robertgotschall1246]

I understand that the James Webb Telescope uses chemical thrusters and that they are the main limiting factor on it’s lifespan. I’m sure NASA considered electric thrusters but probably thought they weren’t quite ready yet? Just curious.

[@musewolfman]

Could also have to do with response time. Sure, electric thrusters would have a much greater lifespan, but chemical thrusters can reposition it much quicker.

[@MannsWoodlandPerspective]

To Infinite and Beyond! This should be the first new words on the moon surface.

[@ElegantMessTechPC]

Just getting started on the video, but you & the whole team are AMAZING! This is like the 4th video today from the various channels.... and I watch em' ALL !!!

[@michalsnaiberg2734]

Now, imagine for a while, that since the end of the Cold War, the ammount of funding for US military and NASA was swapped. We would be living on Mars by now.

[@jmmahony]

At 4:08 you say orbital velocity is somewhere between 10 and 20 thousand meters per second. I'm not sure where you got those numbers from, but orbital velocity for a low earth circular orbit is about 8000 m/s, and is slower for higher circular orbits. That's for circular orbits. The speed at the low point (perigee) of an elliptical orbit could be higher, but only for the lower parts of the orbit, and would be

[@AFreakingAxeCH]

Science, knowledge and curiosity focused Megaprojects are like cakes they don't come often but god are they good to savor

[@bigbrentv5154]

Basically the real life red dwarf

[@PHDiaz-vv7yo]

Don’t tease me Simon. This better be good…. Will cue it up and devour it soon

[@lindseyrunyan1036]

Simon’s disembodied consciousness on a screen, 2,000 years from now, telling our descendants about Earth & hairless apes while they’re on some far-flung planet in the galaxy

[@owenshebbeare2999]

...and with measurements in US cave-man units, because the ignorant future Americans won't grow up.

[@terp2726]

Just one small problem. NASA hasn't hired enough astronauts to crew both the ISS and Moon missions. Also, when they first started training astronauts for the ISS it took 5 years - an undertaking that now only takes 2 years. In deciding on various timelines for moon missions, they used current ISS training time as a model despite the fact that they should have used the earlier duration as we will again be training new people on new equipment and procedures just like in the early days of the ISS. The normal time to hire crew from the time of the announcement of their missions is 2 years. Add that to the 5 years for the first class of moon bound astronauts and you get 7 years. So the earliest any new hires could be readied for a lunar mission is 2029. And they were concerned about the lunar spacesuits not being ready until 2025. Now a moot point.

[@alexanderstone9463]

"NASA hasn't hired enough astronauts to crew both the ISS and Moon missions...they used current ISS training time as a model despite the fact that they should have used the earlier duration..." This doesn't sound like a problem that NASA has itself, so much as it sounds like a problem that you have with NASA.

[@terp2726]

@@alexanderstone9463 How is this not a NASA problem? If they don't have enough astronauts to crew both missions one of them will be stalled until there are enough. As for my feelings toward them, I try to call it as I see it. They, like any institution, have good and bad points. This issue seems pretty important to the missions NASA is committed to so their apparent inaction is a valid point to call out.

[@alexanderstone9463]

@Terp My point is that they have not always allowed safety or protocols to get in the way of their deadlines, or rather, those who oversee it haven’t allowed it to. In short, I can imagine them changing the requirements rather than the training, and simply ignoring the old protocols. This might not strike you (or me) as “safe”, but NASA can be a little cavalier at times. As for they would be so cavalier, it’s simple, they don’t have the money not to be. Because of the ever constant changes in their funding, they repeatedly have to guess about what they’re training their astronauts to do. Faced with this uncertainty I think it’s perfectly realistic to believe that that they will just be like “Eh, what was good enough for the ISS will be good enough for the Lunar Gateway” and then just rewrite the rules to justify this policy.

[@brett4264]

We'll be extremely lucky if any of this gets done by 2030! Not to mention, we'll be lucky if we're not 200% over budget.

[@danelynch7171]

We need to find oil on the moon and america will have us there in a year!! Them moon men need freedom!!

[@faridjafari6356]

Why Don't humans build a space base fixed on the moon surface which is more safe and stable for the astronauts and can be a start to create a permanent space city?

[@jaktucker777]

And used the freshest footage of a rocket engine available with the latest Nasa test. Nice work!

[@IWTACoaching]

Finally a real Mega Project

[@TonySpike]

Simon - "describes thruster" Me - a TIE Fighter you say factboy?

[@musewolfman]

Had the same thought. Apparently Hall Thrusters are a form of ion engine.

[@robstedeford8112]

THANK YOU for calling it by its name: The Canadarm. So rarely do Americans refer to it by its actual name. Invented, developed and created in Canada and named by an elementary student. It’s a point of pride in Canada and it always bothers me seeing American news sources refer to it as “the space arm” or something insultingly generic. So I thank you for calling it by its actual name.

[@BoycottChinaa]

I'm in the states and only ever heard it called the Canadarm. I would be ticked too, hearing media figures call it a space arm, not least because it underscores how airhead influencers ruined engineering in general..

[@rs2excelsior]

A Hohmann transfer orbit doesn’t involve firing the thrusters for most of the trip. You perform a transfer burn from earth orbit, coast until you are close to the moon, then do a capture burn to enter lunar orbit. So while the initial and final burns will take much longer, they’ll still be a fairly small portion of the trip - so maybe an extra day, but the 5 day number will be broadly correct.

[@KelticTim]

Yes Fact Boy, really. One serves the function of protecting you from having to speak Russian or Chinese, and the other is so some scientists can do something we may or may not ever care about.

[@boldandthebeautifulgimbal2881]

1:11 It’s called being Measurement Fluid, and it’s to be celebrated!! I’m Cist Metricnormative and I’m to be hated.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Bear in mind that simply saying "pints" is problematic as US pints are around 20% smaller than Imperial pints, and the larger Imperian pint is more widely used for things like beer, at least outside the insular US. Same for gallons, naturally.

[@andrewolson5471]

With so many of these Megaprojects being about military vehicles and weapons of war, I can't express how much I love the idea of this particular project. Exploring and learning are more important to humanity's future than finding creative and high tech ways of killing each other.

[@jstudmclovin713]

Whilst I may generally be a nihilist, I must say that I appreciate the uplifting message at the end of this video.

[@EAcapuccino]

Remarkable 👍👏👏😮 An astronomical project! 🚀 Another TRUE MEGAPROJECT

[@MyViewsOfTheWorld]

Simon, next time please mention that your sponsor only cators to the US and Canada. I signed up and completed the quiz only to find out they don't ship here. Nothing on their site said it was US/Canada only. Very dissapointing. I wanted to help you by subscribing, it sounds interesting, but now I am dissapointed. Thanks

[@christopherosborn7081]

I would like an inflatable habitat added to the LOP-G.

[@JamesSymmonds]

Yes, yes, the Esprit module... but what about the United Colors of Benetton module? Or the 80s Banana Republic module with safari clothes? Or an Orange Julius module?

[@handle535]

Ha, ha, love your esprit. Such cleaverness and wit would no doubt contribute to the esprit de corps on the Gateway.

[@StefanMedici]

You're showing your age, and so am I for recognizing your references. You were however missing the Abercrombie and Fitch 😂

[@JamesSymmonds]

@@StefanMedici Oh, I thought A&F was more of a 90s store. 🤣

[@tkskagen]

With the demise and Failure of the ISS Eminent, can't parts be repurposed for the LOB-G?... Use what we have to save money, right!

[@nedflanders4158]

I don't know if I missed it in this video, but WHY the lop g and not just use a base on the moon? What's the benefit?

[@iamarokotmanson]

Nothing

[@MasaTheSlayer]

So could we also get North Sea Dam as video. We are probably get that before we get any space gateways.

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

The main purpose of this is to maintain a constant communication with a base at the south pole, which a small, unmanned satellite could do just as well. Manned lunar missions would save fuel by going straight from earth orbit to low lunar orbit, with rendezvous there if necessary. If its a lab to study deep space exposure, just say that. Or whatever it really is.

[@ThroneOfBhaal]

I think this is a good middle-step between Earth and Mars. Better to practice and refine our methods, technology and knowledge on a smaller, closer to home project before sinking the teeth into something MUCH more complicated. Besides, if these are successful and might even find exploitable resources it might help ignite more appetite for a Mars mission.

[@pierreplourde]

The musical cue at about 17:08, the start of “Operation and Orbit”: what is it? I know it from somewhere but can’t place it and it’s been driving me crazy every time Simon plays it!

[@sabbyreloaded]

Haendel Sarabande

[@billsimpson604]

They will be gone for a while, doing all that orbiting and transferring. Hope they have some rescue plans. Apollo was simple compared to all that. And Apollo was far from simple.

[@johnnyspacer9488]

The LOP-G is also a test spaceship for trips to Mars and back.

[@aritakalo8011]

Yeah. Though it isn't emphasized as much as the Moon stuff, realistically Moon wouldn't need LOP-G. However Nasa needs LOP-G and LOP-G needs Moon to get funded... So Moon LOP-G it is. There real job is to put astronauts there to see pretty much "how good or bad humans do in cosmic ray deep space environment". The mentioned in video Deep Space Habitat had an officially listed out *500 day mission* expansion module planned. Since 500 days is the simulated needed flight time for the most common Mars mission concept. So yeah wonder wonder what the LOP-G is about? DSH was way more clear on the nose name about the main job. Guess that is why it didn't stick around.

[@nenmaster5218]

The Science of Dreams would be an interesting Topic for soon. Why do we dream and more importantly: When is the much-needed Tech discovered that makes you sleep dreamless? Me and others really need it.

[@Mas___SD]

Great video! For the record, LOP-G was just a placeholder name that was used until 2018 or so. Since then it's just been called "Gateway" or the "Deep Space Gateway".

[@mikeguilmette776]

I don't know why we're building a station around the moon when it's going to be destroyed on Sept. 13, 1999 . . .

[@colintimp1372]

The cannonball actually never "turns." It actually travels in a straight line. It's the space around the mass it's orbiting that's curved.

[@robertanderson5092]

Its all relative

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

YES, YES, beautiful really in my limited mathematical comprehension of trigonometry. A famous physicist said some thing about gravity and space time and that one effecting the other in a funny saying he used about how they interact together. I would need to look it up for the precise saying he used.

[@jacobrogers2214]

With Hall effect thrusters you’d likely need to “burn” at perigee to raise your apogee scores of times and have some breathtaking battery capacity. For robotic transfers sure but for manned transfers I highly doubt they’ll use Hall effect thrusters. Likely more for inertial dampening, rcs, and station keeping.

[@BigMobe]

16% of US total federal spending is on defense. Social Security, federal transfers, Medicare, Medicaid, and other means tested welfare programs make up over 70% of US total federal spending. Also since we now have a space defense force chances are defense spending will go towards some long term space programs.

[@gauravkhanna2622]

A petition to give NASA the same budget USA govt gave to Lockheed martin for F22s.

[@samuelthegreatoo]

If I ever get into Congress, I'm going to vote for a 100 billion dollar funding boost to NASA.

[@Swm9445]

Thought: Would you consider making a video on Nauka and Prichal? Two ISS modules which have launched and joined with the ISS since you made your ISS video when you launched the channel.

[@twocvbloke]

It'll be a fun time to see humans land on Mars, but with our playground politics governments, it may be some time off yet...

[@vasilerogojan4520]

Nowadays it is like: Mars, Elon Musk's obsession to colonize this century.

[@diegohernandez1005]

Man that last quote should be used more often.

[@shwanslife]

Are you contractually obligated to make the first few minutes of your uploads an ad?

[@Habs2802]

Was wondering why he was talking about cannibals orbiting the earth. Then I realised 😞

[@timmotel5804]

Excellent. Thank You for great up to date information. Artemis is delayed by technical problems and a hurricane presently. Hopefully a successful and safe launch and mission in the near future.

[@lincolnr615]

Star Trek Wars…the easiest way to get two groups of nerds in an uproar simultaneously