How NASA & SpaceX Plan To Send Humans To An Asteroid!

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[@TheSpaceRaceYT]

Should NASA bother sending Astronauts to an asteroid? Let us know your thoughts below!

[@ebonaparte3853]

The Voyager probes won’t be passing through the Oort Cloud for 3 centuries

[@kerry4371]

True thoughts get deleted

[@i-love-space390]

America needs to gain experience further away from Earth than the Moon, before it will be reasonable to head to Mars. The Starship will need to be proven for long duration flight. We will need testing of radiation mitigation technology and low maintenance, long lifetime equipment for life support. (Our ISS hardware is constantly being maintained by a nice flow of spare parts from the ground.) I find it interesting that NASA is not taking the "human rating" on Starship to mean launch from Earth. I never expect NASA to sign off on that until SpaceX develops a special, Human-only Starship with proper abort equipment to allow a reasonable chance of crew escaping a Starship engine malfunction. NASA learned their lesson with Space Shuttle, and the huge fuel tank was OUTSIDE of the Orbiter. The Orbiter just had OMS and RCS on board. And amazingly the crew cabin survived the explosion of the external tank. If it had had ejection seats for everyone, at least some crew might have survived the Challenger explosion. Starship is WORSE than the Space Shuttle, since the crew will sit right on top of the fuel tanks. Unless they have crew ejection capsules or a detachable cabin that can be recovered, the crew is dead if the tanks explode. Since such abort/recovery equipment is heavy, I think having a separate crew-only Starship is the best answer. Like NASA decided back in the days of the Augustine Commission Report, separate cargo from crew. And @kerry4371 perhaps the "true thoughts" won't get deleted when they do not include nasty comments. Keep it reasonable and maybe you will be surprised.

[@NunoPereira.]

If NASA doesn't do it other state or private space entity will do it sooner or later.

[@robb8235]

Take the gloves off of starship/starbase and it will move at a fast pace.

[@travism.3594]

I love how this mission sounds like a sci fi movie but might happen in my lifetime

[@stevenorrington473]

Don't jinx it. Don't make them delay it by 50 years.

[@danwilson9695]

Gets better if we can capture asteroids we can use them as weapons think about the California fault line Yellowstone and long valley volcanoes

[@danwilson9695]

Pft UK bye-bye just an example

[@JonnoPlays]

That thumbnail tho 😂 👌 💯 🚀 ☄️🚩

[@user-kj9no2oz3y]

POV flat mooners

[@ChaHous]

Lunar starship on oumumua

[@TheCreepyKid1]

Lol all of the people will just float away

[@i-love-space390]

I think you meant to say Voyager had penetrated the Kuiper Belt, not Oort cloud. The Oort cloud extends out to about 1 LIGHT YEAR from Earth.

[@aurawolf2221]

Seeing things like this happen in my lifetime make my little Sci-fi self so happy!

[@GenialHarryGrout]

The asteroid project is exciting news. I hope research is also being done in transferring people from the space craft to the asteroid using star trek style teleporting 🙂

[@mt-qc2qh]

Starship needs a fission engine to do these long trips. The refueling concept is quickly becoming an Achilles heel. Too many support launches and limited ranges. It needs to be like the evolution into nuclear submarines that can run for a long time without refueling. The current Starship is akin to the older diesel subs.

[@vdwhite687]

I agree

[@i-love-space390]

Unlike Nuclear Subs, Nuclear Rocket Engines still need propellant mass - just not as much as chemical engines. And somehow I think launching nuclear engines from Earth is going to require a very long process to quell the public outcry against the danger of nuclear contamination in the event of an explosion on liftoff from Earth.

[@Tate525]

​@@i-love-space390We can assemble and launch from the space directly. That's moon base is so essential for us. We can experiment with multiple propulsion methods that won't be allowed here.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

I agree with you. This mission sounds insane just to go to an asteroid... To do what? Walk around it? Say we've done it? Bring a few KGs worth? Get a robot to do that. Feels like we could use the money for missions that will be more useful to humanity. Hell I would rather see a mission to mine it. Just something other then walk around it and take a few samples. With that said I am all for nuclear everything. I was wondering how much nuclear fuel is actually used? I ask that since if we could somehow make a super safe container for the nuclear fuel to get to space then install it on whatever space craft? Well that would make it much easier for NASA to actually start using nuclear craft. How about dem lazers?! Build a 100 GIGAWAT giant LAZER with a Z pointed at spaceships with super nano materials for propulsion! No need for engines except thrusters! (JP)

[@goldnutter412]

11:00 dey hackin our interwebz ! 😂

[@i-love-space390]

I wonder why those Rapters are shutting down early. I wonder if we are still getting weird energy reflections from the pad area causing problems. Do we know if the same engines had problems as the engines that failed on the first flight?

[@Peabody77]

Rockhound: "Yeah, I remember this one. It's where the, uh, the coyote sat his ass down in a slingshot then he strapped himself to an Acme rocket. Is that - is that what we're doin' here?"

[@arthurwagar88]

Thanks again for good stuff.

[@Faux.Player]

Love the vids keep them up

[@bruceoliver5723]

Good job

[@NathanRae]

The over use of glitch transitions make these videos a tough watch. Please use them between topics or definitely not two within 5 seconds.

[@GlensRetroShow]

the voyager 1 & 2 probes are nowhere near ..........nowhere near the ort cloud that's a long way away......

[@jamesvinton5678]

Much as I follow your videos every week and enjoy them. I have one small nit to pick this week. Regardless of how it's spelt Canberra is not pronounced Can-Bear-A, we pronounce it Can-bra. :)

[@23wdj]

What year would this happen?

[@riondrius]

Hey Space Race how close are we to being able to see other planets in our solar system like we can with Earth sattelite imagery - is this something that could happen in our lifetime? I wish NASA would have more drone / sattelite projects to study our neighbors. Imagine a sattelite around most planets in our Solar System with imagery similar to Google maps!?

[@elizabethmears5816]

You could strap a camera to it and film the universe combine. Or build a star base on it. Make it habitable and have poeople live on it . Use it as a space caft hollow it out Maybe.

[@timtemple5218]

This thing is a higher level to flying saucers. It is used to defeat flying saucers, go invisible and crash vehicles.

[@joegonzalez6241]

i say in 5 years of me getting my space agency runnning. i would be getting my final ship version out with modification and start testing in earth orbit. before mass producing habitats for the moon

[@templerea5262]

Thank you for making this video! 2 small requests. Please say liquid oxygen instead of L.O.X. Deluge is pronounced del-yooj.

[@Meekahel]

I wonder the cost of fuel for the huge balls the astronauts have to carry for that mission.

[@mcole002]

Nasa needs to mine an asteroid for rare metals and KEEP all the profits for future missions, could you just imagine Nasa with a 1 trillion budget?

[@darwinatgc]

They would steal the money like they did our social security

[@ChaHous]

We'll be at alpha centuri by now lol

[@stephenroberts643]

leave a tracker on it and a camera

[@thanksfernuthin]

Voyager 2. I am in awe of our ancestors.

[@biokukA]

Why does the crew has to use the dragon capsule, can't they lift off and land on board of starship?

[@SlyNation]

Why have the first dragon capsule return only to send up another one? Keep the first one autonomously orbiting the Earth and then rendezvous with it once the astronauts are prepared to come home. Or why not just take Starship home?

[@Jam-In-With-Ben]

hi

[@bobdionne4625]

One look at this thumbnail and I scrolled on by

[@ChaHous]

Didn't spacex say they had no plans to ever crew rate falcon heavy?

[@williamburroughs9686]

I have a few questions. The crew that goes to the NEA will they need to be isolated for a few weeks once they get back in order to check them for possible contamination? Also they Voyager probes. Do they have any photos of the Ort cloud?

[@michaelbaribeau]

The report at about 10min 20sec that the probes had passed the Oort Cloud was wrong, they must have meant the heliosphere's Termination Shock boundary. They may have meant the Kuiper Belt but one probe went south and the other north out of the ecliptic plane that the major planets orbit in before even reaching the Kuiper Belt. The Oort Cloud is so far away from the planetary orbits that it will take 100's of years to reach the Oort Cloud and 10's of thousands to pass all the way through since it's about a light year thick. The Voyager probe only have about 10 years of power left but object spacing in the Oort Cloud is probably similar or even greater than in the Asteroid Belt so they wouldn't come close enough to photograph anything even if they could.

[@michaelbaribeau]

oh yeah, they stopped quarantine from return space trips after Apollo 14. I doubt they will start again with asteroids but they might for Mars.

[@williamburroughs9686]

@@michaelbaribeau Really? Thanks

[@martinberry574]

There are no pictures of the ort cloud, As they have not passed through the ort cloud, yet they won't get there for years!

[@jimmyrussell9749]

We should be processing fuel in our moons orbit before even thinking of any searious Mars colonization

[@robertprawendowski2850]

⭐

[@ducque696]

Wait how are they gonna stand on the asteroid if its so small and will have such little gravity?

[@user-ig4ge8vt8x]

What’s with the usernames, emails, passwords, and IP addresses in the stock footage at 11:01, for “gather what little data the probe still can”. Odd choice.

[@Mr_uhu]

im going to work as hard as i can to be one of the first on mars

[@ardeleantudor3635]

if it is 2037 does that mean that we'll go to mars before that or that mars will be after that?

[@sonicdoesfrontflips]

After. Long, long, long after

[@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot]

I recommend to not go the route of other youtubers and start pumping out lower quality drawn-out videos more often, but instead have less often but more informative videos. That can help you stand out more from other youtubers I think. God bless! 😊

[@lovro4744]

Could a booster be refuelled, or his engines aren't suited for space? Would a full stack bring any benefits for space travel?

[@TheAmericanCatholic]

You would have to first get the booster in orbit

[@eddiehill5895]

Not to be a troll, but presenter stated Voyager passed through the Oort Cloud. I wish, but not true. They have passed the Kuiper belt, but will not pass the Oort Cloud for thousands of years! Thanks for the video!

[@vdwhite687]

Thats at least 5 launches to get to that asteroid.. kinda insane.

[@mikemccormick6128]

Just imagine if the Earth were a little bit larger to where we had no ability to leave the planet at all. That would be depressing.

[@mikemccormick6128]

I think this is a fine idea, but if we haven't sent humans to Mars by 2039, I will feel very disappointed. The original estimate was to send humans to Mars by 2024, so 15 years after that would be a big let down. I also smiled at the idea of launching humans to orbit using the Falcon Heavy. I would be shocked if SpaceX doesn't send humans to orbit on the Starship way before 2039.

[@savagesarethebest7251]

Same here, I thought that it was a smart plan until I heard the date.. I think that must have meant 2029..

[@masterweird]

luckily spacex still plans on launching in 2029 and nasa in 2035 so hopefully we will beat that deadline

[@vdwhite687]

I reckon cargo trips will be sent for 2026 at this rate, and then maybe humans by 2030 or sooner

[@mikemccormick6128]

@@masterweird Well I was hoping that SpaceX would be first to orbit, but unfortunately NASA was first to orbit. I believe that at some point in the 2030s, SLS will be shut down by Congress because of how obscenely expensive it is and because of the fact that Starship is much larger with much greater capability.

[@mikemccormick6128]

@@vdwhite687 You may be right, but I'm betting that the first cargo trip will be in 2024. The first cargo trip will be SpaceX's own satellites, so they won't have to be worried about blowing up some other company's satellite. The first successful orbital launch could happen this year or maybe early next year. Once they get it to orbit, they may or may not send it again empty. They may not be too worried about it blowing up if it's just their own satellites.

[@PariahGrimm]

So are they going to attach a telescope to it and transmit the photos back to earth?

[@michaelbaribeau]

The Voyager probes? The report was wrong about the Oort Cloud and may have confused it with the Termination Shock boundary. They have telephoto cameras but not enough power to run them and the Oort cloud is still 100's of years away and they only have about 10 years of power left.

[@thedailyremedy968]

Green light boys:CGI is now go!

[@feylord7235]

how are they going to stay with the asteroid its too small to have a sphere of influence?

[@SNOWFOX473]

yo

[@NicholasNerios]

Seems like a solid hardware, software test before Mars but why not just over shoot the moon circle back and land on the dark side, then their not on an asteroid, and could still be exposed to all the same testing. It'll leave room for more moon base development as well.

[@darlenelang3681]

It seems to me ,Asteroids spin so if they land on it , how are they going to stay on it if it spins upside down . You cannot glue the ship and people to the rock.

[@yoskarokuto3553]

artemis 3 ( land first human on the moon ) ??? WHAT THE....!!! 😱

[@mikemccormick6128]

It seems like SpaceX should be sending humans to orbit using Starship by 2026 or 2027 at the latest.

[@leeroychang]

I agree. Starship will be outdated and replaced by 2039 after already having had a great career...

[@ChaHous]

I don't know that seems too soon maybe 2028 or 2029. I really expect starship to launch to orbit soon but starship is highly experimental compared to other launch vehicles. Artemis 3 will be the first crewed flight in 2027 I'm betting.

[@mikemccormick6128]

@@ChaHous Okay, you say 2028 or 2029, but NASA wants to use the Falcon Heavy to launch humans to orbit in 2039. That is what has me shaking my head. I think it's more likely that NASA will change its mind. SpaceX should be sending humans to Mars by 2039, much less an asteroid. I believe that when the Dear Moon project launches, the astronauts will be launching from Starship, not the Falcon Heavy.

[@ChaHous]

@@mikemccormick6128 i agree that dear moon will be launched on Starship but I think after Artemis 3. Spacex sending tourists for a flyby of the moon is a risky mission and it would tarnish Thier reputation If things were to go wrong so I think spacex might hold off until they are certain things are safe

[@mikemccormick6128]

@@ChaHous You may be spot on. I remember that it took a long time to ramp up Falcon 9 launches. They only launched a few times a year for the first few years. I'm hoping that that is not the case with Starship. I'm hoping that they get to a launch a week fairly quickly. or at least ramp it up a lot faster than the Falcon 9 ramp up.

[@hyeung1]

One step at a time - especially when you can't even get people back on the moon yet.

[@DonMr]

The Moon: They forgot me...

[@NismoXero]

The Voyager probes are not even close to the Oort cloud yet. Perhaps you meant Kuiper belt.

[@JenniferA886]

Good point 👍👍👍

[@michaelbaribeau]

The report at about 10min 20sec that the probes had passed the Oort Cloud was wrong, they must have meant the heliosphere's Termination Shock boundary. They may have meant the Kuiper Belt but one probe went south and the other north out of the ecliptic plane that the major planets orbit in before even reaching the Kuiper Belt.

[@NismoXero]

​@@michaelbaribeau maybe. After watching that part a few more times I think they just assume the Oort cloud is inside the heliosphere so it "must have" passed it 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@lordgarion514]

According to NASA, Voyager will not reach the Oort cloud for another 300 years, and wont exit it for another 30,000 years.

[@sergiorivera8810]

Something about Voyager telling a superior race where we’re at is gambling the human race. 11:35

[@nadigaming1074]

at this point its time to crowd fund and send micro rockets to our destinations with more capable drones

[@kennethjarvis4216]

That is the best and cheapest space travel we will ever get. Find an Asteriod that can be landed on that is on a far circle out somewhere there is something to discover and have a space station that can take the abuse of space protecting scientist for years . Yes practice is nice.

[@KeithFrancis-nf8dw]

They should try to stick booster rockets in it and bring it more closer to Earth so we can disect it .😂😂😂

[@deebusoh9023]

den drill a hole & put a boom inside ?

[@DasSeltsameExemplar]

Why would they land on such a tiny asteroid?

[@arunmoses2197]

How come SpaceX needs to use Falcon Heavy for this mission? Can't they just launch the astronauts in Starship?

[@stevevernon1978]

someday, yes. they could launch a dragon on a Falcon Heavy _TOMORROW!_

[@robb8235]

Unlike SLS …. Starship can launch multiple times a year…multiple ships will be available in just a few yrs.

[@CharlieBell-qt9jc]

Starship is literally one of a kind something way ahead of it's time and SLS ode say is top of the line for it's time SLS is a straight beast beautiful looking rocket too

[@swapshots4427]

So this is basically acknowledging that there will be no boots on Mars for 'at least' 16 years. That Elon time is stretching further from reality every day.

[@gabrielbiancardi4004]

Would it be wise to give the gold map of the "gold" mine to anyone who wants to see it? There, i said it

[@user-hk6mt4uo4p]

OK now lets build a real space ship.

[@yggdrasil9039]

A far more worthy goal is to accelerate progress towards the construction of RSSs. Having these islands in space dotted around the inner solar system as soon as possible is the gateway to space, and without them Lunar and Mars colonies will not be possible.

[@GiulioVonKerman]

The thumbnail has to be a joke. They are STANDING on an asteroid and that asteroid is OUMUAMUA?

[@bradleywall2246]

The asteroid mission sounds cool but 2039??? I would be very surprised if SpaceX, not NASA, hasn’t put boots down on Mars by then making the asteroid mission irrelevant.

[@gregsparks5131]

need to send robotics to an asteroid first. then see if it would be better or do more robotic. look the room to send humans can be used to send robots. More fuel more equipment, makes more sense.

[@lucidmoses]

Ok, I know there is some pushback on these Low Flow show heads but that's ridiculous. :p

[@janrozema7650]

Isn't pronounced; del-huge ?

[@viktorLOL123465]

Why would they do that, we have robots and AI

[@Pisti846]

Didn't Japan send an unmined vehicle to an asteroid and then brought back samples? What happened with that?

[@michaelbaribeau]

JAXA has sent 2 and both samples missions have returned. I think NASA has a 3rd due this year. As for the results from a 2021 article summary, "According to Grady, together these papers “have shown us that the material from Ryugu is primitive and sufficiently different from known meteorites to make us think again about how representative meteorites are of asteroids. “This might come to change some aspects of our view of early Solar System history.” But these two studies are just the beginning."

[@glassesstapler]

this idea that humans need to undertake these missions is just ballooning the potential costs into mission extinction. We already have robotic/rover technology to conduct these missions! Save the money and get the mission actually materialize! Put our egos aside. For Science!

[@stevevernon1978]

"No bucks, no Buck Rogers" and its corollary: "No Buck Rogers, no bucks!"

[@rajeshnvijo-dj7dk]

NASA first put man on the moon clear the doubts

[@user-hk6mt4uo4p]

Why would anyone want to go to an asteroid?

[@sonicdoesfrontflips]

So much for landing humans on Mars by 2040 😂

[@samuelealessi234]

first

[@JonnoPlays]

You win 🤝

[@andymouse]

Can-bur-aa

[@darwinatgc]

Pic is a lie. Umami is traveling out so fast we could never catch it.

[@stephenroberts643]

not in my timeline

[@TheDarkFalcon]

Thy voyagers are no where close to having passed through the ort cloud..

[@odysseusrex5908]

Even in a worst case scenario, by 2039 I would expect Starship to be fully human rated and routinely lifting off and landing from the surfaces of both the Earth and the Moon with large numbers of passengers aboard. This idiotic idea of using a small boat to ferry people out to an ocean liner needs to be dropkicked out of the Solar System, soon.

[@mathiaslist6705]

it could even happen that Musk does not own SpaceX any more by that time. Remember what happened to Xerox, IBM, Boeing, Apple ....

[@Leo-pd4fc]

Sending humans to an asteroid sounds too dangerous mission, more dangerous than Mars mission... By the way that thumbnail looks like Oumuamua. 🌍👩🏻‍🚀🚀☄️🪐☀️🌑🌠

[@JonnoPlays]

Agreed very bad idea. No need to send humans.

[@Leo-pd4fc]

@@JonnoPlays yeah, it's impossible

[@Leo-pd4fc]

@@JonnoPlays i subscribed your channel, Im huge Pokémonfan too 😆

[@thorin1045]

how could it be more dangerous than three to four times longer just for on way trip, that needs month or years to stay before return, in total, one is 90-120 days, the other is at lest two years? neither has any support at any point beyond leaving, but one also probably involves a landing and launching of a somewhat full sized rocket, and the fun of trying to acclimate to gravity after half a year or more without any major help (if any.) dangerous, yes, much less than a mars trip, yes. good idea? hmm, it is reverse, if we cannot do this, than mars is out of question.

[@screally1152]

Canberra is pronounced more like Can-bruh

[@phildavenport4150]

Please consider taking a really big spaceship full of flat Earthers to a big asteroid. One way trip, of course.

[@user-ec5rh7ep1e]

MEs

[@brianlehman1244]

King space mining llc now hiring 800$ a second

[@nononono3421]

We ain’t putting humans on Mars this decade, probably not even in the 2030s.

[@ChaHous]

Yeah possibly but is that necessarily a bad thing? NASA hasn't been back to the moon in 50 years and we known relative little about long term effects on the human body. We focus on the moon first and establish a base and then we can get to mars in the late 2030s or 2040s.

[@sonicdoesfrontflips]

This mission probably won't even launch in the 2030s, if it ever does. If it's planned for 2039, then all it takes is one delay to push it into the 40's.

[@nononono3421]

@@ChaHous I think all of NASA’s missions are bad. The focus should be to put big payloads in space and on the moon for cheap, and deploy AI-assisted drones to operate any operations. There should be a fully autonomous space station with zero support for humans. The goal should be automated industrial production and mining in space.

[@ChaHous]

@@sonicdoesfrontflips this mission probably won't happen to be honest.

[@AzureNightsMusic]

Space X again? They've already let NASA down for the Artemis 3 mission. That's the only thing I hate about space X, Tesla etc - they just cannot seem to work to deadlines!

[@vidurasankalpa]

but there is no other competitor, only SLS.

[@AzureNightsMusic]

@@vidurasankalpa Well there were obviously lots of candidates that applied like Dynectics, Boeing etc. I just think with all the delays and failed projects that Elon has had over the years, I'd have thought they'd have chosen someone else to ensure its completed on time really.

[@vidurasankalpa]

@@AzureNightsMusic failed projects? did Boeing is even trying to make the lunar lander before SpaceX? SpaceX has shown to be capable of making falcon heavy and falcon 9, those rockets also failed lot of times like the starship, starship is just lot more complicated compared to falcon 9 and heavy, it just needs time but even with all that space has the best progression now, they'll still finish it before Boeing so my point still stands.

[@AzureNightsMusic]

@@vidurasankalpa I just think it would have been better to give the contract to a less "complex" concept imo. I really hope starship does work, however, the main point is to get to the moon again and set foot on top of it. Wouldn't be surprised if Space X go way outside the bounds of the contract figures too. Your point is invalid though - space X don't "have" anything - starship doesn't work yet 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@AzureNightsMusic]

@@vidurasankalpa also, it's great that Falcon 9 works after more than a decade of failed tests, but we don't have a decade? Lol

[@simonehart9016]

Canberra is pronounced CAN-BRA not CAN-BERA

[@coasterblocks3420]

So long as we send Elon Musk to the asteroid and leave him there.

[@wikkid1show569]

Talking about Asteroids and other surfaces. I actually think Avi Loeb is right about Oumuamua as an interstellar class craft . That rotational flying it was doing reminds me of a program about living on Mars but on an episode I saw a craft heading to Mars and I realized that this was used to create artificial gravity while heading to the destination. I can't remember the name of the program but that somehow came to mind when I observed what many animation have shown. For all those Scifi fans I think you know the show and can give credibility to his explanation. So all you content creators have fun . Search it out and help us archive the truth of the matter.

[@zzubra]

It’s not going to look like that-there will be essentially zero gravity.

[@GraczPierwszy]

🤦🤦‍♂

[@Kapitananime]

STAR SHIP WILL FAIL TO BE A RELIABLE SPACECRAFT

[@Imonly2andahalf]

2039! Jesus Christ SMH