What The Next Space Station May Look Like

The International Space Station will likely be retired within the decade. NASA hopes to save money by having commercial companies build the next space outpost. Some companies including Sierra Space and Axiom Space are already working on a commercial space station. But the question is, will these stations be ready in time?
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What’s Next For The International Space Station?

[@Brownyman]

These prequel episodes of "The Expanse" are getting really good!

[@gbbenner9382]

Let's see where space technologies will be at in 40 years.

[@AhmadZul]

Play that opening song~

[@kennooo535]

Lol i just started watching that

[@TommoCarroll]

@@AhmadZul *sings in Norwegian*

[@micmccond7]

Except everyone is aiming for a planetary body, when a asteroid seems far more practical. Hollow it out, build inside it, and position it where you like...seems like a no brainer.

[@morphd1329]

2:37 You'd think whoever made the animation would have bothered to look at some pictures of the spacecraft and how they docked to the ISS

[@rahulkulkarni3238]

Cracked me up

[@gage2189]

I- I- no-

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

Na thats how they're gonna do it, just shove them all perpendicular into the docking module one after another

[@spamhater86]

Why Wasn’t Bigelow Aerospace mentioned in this Video, they already have an inflatable habitat on the ISS. None of the companies mentioned have an actual habitat currently working in space.

[@blackboxcameracom]

Bigelow Aerospace closed down last year and laid everyone off, apparently due to COVID. Not sure if they will restart or be bought out for their IP.

[@steveaustin2686]

@@blackboxcameracom It would be AWESOME if SpaceX picked them up. Not sure if that's on Musk's RADAR though as he is pretty focused on Lunar Starship, so that he can then go to Mars.

[@KertaDrake]

Every time I see the Dream Chaser all I can think is someone's gonna get lost in a wormhole...

[@SanDiego619RS]

The next-gen space staton “must” have 4K cameras.

[@brobrah4595]

theyll still be grainy lol

[@sienglimtiu2074]

Even 5G the US does not have . Keep dreaming .

[@cattigereyes1]

Those 8k cameras need range finders, and size estimators. Also add wide spectrum recording.

[@MickyTicky2x4]

Cameras aren't the problem, the large data transmission bandwidth required by said cameras is the problem.

[@rajadhirajmaharaj]

@@MickyTicky2x4 yeah, and the inflatable space station is a joke, right? I mean, there's no air up there. You have to carry it. so, the "cost saving" they were talking doesn't make any sense.

[@MaxMakerChannel]

7:40 Why on earth would you put that graphic right on top of the capsule?

[@TheBooban]

@Elliott yea, but so lame. It expands as the module expands but itself blocks the expansion. I didn’t notice it growing at first. So bad.

[@Dankman9]

Terrible

[@rahulkulkarni3238]

Typical journalist

[@Engineer9736]

@@TheBooban I think Elliott was making a joke. The size and growing of that graphic doesn’t mean anything. Other than that it’s blocking the subject of the video.

[@Sobergirl_]

I just went through training at the Space and Rocket Center. What I have learned about the commercial space flight programs is incredible. This decade we will see history being made. From the launch of the Artemis SLS-1 and Orion capsule this year to the decommissioning and de-orbit of the ISS in 2031. Our forefathers from the Mercury program would be astonished by how far we have come.

[@Vector_Ze]

I'm 68 years old. My life entirely eclipses the space age to this point. Kinda disappointed that I'm not going to see a 1950s-60s style wheel-like artificial gravity space station.

[@porterijsseldijk3953]

@@Vector_Ze ya! 1969-1972 were the best years of human space flight!

[@ErkiEntveg]

@@Vector_Ze I would also like to see artificial gravity space station (AGSS), but making it to orbit earth makes no sense. Because we have gravity on earth and on moon, we can use thouse bodies, when we need gravity. No gravity space station will be useful exactly because it will not have gravity. So AGSS makes no sense commercially. Colonizing moon makes more sense then building AGSS.

[@TheMrgoodmanners]

What history? We've been to the moon and back 13 times before.

[@peterd5387]

@@TheMrgoodmanners6 times actually

[@adyvandeplas2519]

All I can say is WEYLAND-YUTANI!

[@scottstrang1583]

"...well I am NOT affraid."

[@JaredOwen]

So cool to see things moving forward with space exploration. I can't wait to see what happens in the next ten years!

[@parvchetri0995]

eyy surprised seeing you here. Keep up your good work, your ISS video helped me very much.

[@Moai_454]

YO

[@djmace9029]

I agree. It’s about damn time that humanity’s eyes return to space. I can’t wait to see what happens in space exploration in my lifetime!

[@danielmconnolly7]

Nothing.

[@danielmconnolly7]

@@djmace9029 Don't hold your breath, it's all a scam.

[@adityabapat]

It's really exciting to see future grow so much larger infront of our eyes.

[@erenyeager8306]

When I was a kid I went to Nasa in Houston for a school field trip. There I saw a bunch of modules that was for the ISS

[@angely.2440]

I'll miss the ISS but I'm excited to see our next space station.

[@tsiehtaatheist6337]

This! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qV67nYqGabZnetU&ab_channel=GatewaySpaceportLLC

[@redlightrunner930]

If only we had one to begin with 🤣

[@sfguzmani]

​@@redlightrunner930 wsit the iss is not real? 🤯

[@redlightrunner930]

@@sfguzmani it's as real as your playstation

[@sfguzmani]

This decade will definitely have a blast! Competition is really an amazing thing. Spacex to Moon and Mars, others to Low Earth Orbit, and Government agencies to science and discovery!

[@Laura-S196]

Axiom Space needs to speed up their timeline. ISS will be decommissioned before Axiom is ready to attach their second module to it

[@cooperbennett3043]

The current contract lasts until 2024. That doesn't mean it will be decommissioned then. They can always renew it

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

@Arik G. call congress and funding usa spend 200 billion in nasa be too the moon 40 years ago . rather spend on war .

[@o4saken1]

Man. This video is just over flowing with awesome people doing amazing things working together for the better of humanity and it's f-king beautiful! It's a good time to be alive.

[@markyinon]

I look forward to seeing as much as possible about our future in space. Keep up the great work. Really enjoyed this presentation.

[@WasatchWind]

Gosh can't believe no one is talking about Axiom here. The hope of Starship stations is cool, but Axiom is the cool next step we'll see in the next few years.

[@WasatchWind]

@Living Soul I believe that my knowledge of space is compatible with my knowledge of religion. I believe that God rejoices in our honest desire to understand His creations. On the first mission to travel around the Moon, astronauts read from Genesis on Christmas Eve. On the first Moon landing, Buzz Aldrin took communion prior to walking on the Lunar surface. Whether you believe in these faith traditions or not, you can see in them that spaceflight can inspire us to reflect upon spiritual things. I reject false teachings by many Christians that space as presented to us by NASA and many other space agencies and private enterprises is apparently false. I am not sure if this is what you are getting at, but if it is, I encourage you to rethink your scriptural interpretation. Firmament does not to my knowledge dictate that it's the underside of some dome - and even if that was the perceived understanding of the heavens, it doesn't mean that the ancient Hebrew understanding of space was correct. Scripture is not a science textbook. It's purpose depends on the belief system, but it is usually focused on spiritually benefiting us. The Bible does not need to explain how friction works or inertia, but that does not mean that those things do not exist. So friend I encourage you, if you do espouse this view, examine your existing beliefs. Realize the glorious wonder you can feel looking at pictures of the cosmos. Realize that there are many great people in the world working on uncovering the universes secrets, and doing so does not make them wicked in the slightest measure. I'll say though that if this is not your belief, I apologize for characterizing you based on lacking information. I deeply care about the science of space, and it makes me weary seeing many good religious people fall for deceiving ideas like flat earth, when many other faithful religious people are perfectly able to find compatability between space exploration and their faith.

[@henryk7636]

@@WasatchWind Nice

[@V3racious3]

Yeah because adding $10K or more to every pound of source material is definately going to be a boom for manufacturing in the future.

[@astrobrady2396]

@@WasatchWind bet no one‘s going to read that entire thing

[@WasatchWind]

@@astrobrady2396 Well that's their problem for being lazy, not mine.

[@SamSep01]

The fact that billions of dollars went into corrupt politician's pockets instead of building a low earth orbit station infuriates me somehow.

[@01mustang05]

And what about the continued practice of mass child abuses and poisoning?

[@kanekeylewer5704]

@@01mustang05 ?

[@HarrisonAdAstra]

@@01mustang05 how about the fact that the military has more money than they need? (By a lot)

[@01mustang05]

@@kanekeylewer5704 ?

[@01mustang05]

@@HarrisonAdAstra OK, if you say so, what about it, I think those actions are a result of generational mass child abuses and poisoning. I've dug deeper into why humanity is the way it is and where humanity at large goes wrong in the first place; what I figured out is that everyone is basically a product or a the result of someone else's judgements, care or lack thereof - because as infants and young children we can't defend ourselves from others dictations, bad judgements, and bad upbringing that negatively affected us and others and has disabled us from ending child abuses and poisoning us all still to this day. I might not have wrote this well but it's because I've been harmed and poisoned and I still am. Do you think you know better than I have figured out?

[@alexanderx33]

ISS isn't that old. Its only been completed since about 2011 and started construction in roughly 2001. So its between 10 and 20 years old depending on the module. The main thing that really would be an upgrade is artificial gravity and sections taken up on starship, IE 8.5-8.7 meter outer diameter payloads. Space shuttle carried modules were limited to 4.2m dia. With starship payloads you get 4 times the crossectional area to work with. Even comparing inflated modules, they could be even bigger since their uninflated state could be bigger. Damn that inflated module makes me nervous about micrometeorites through. You need a dual wall to break them appart first and then block them and IDK about this fabric method vs thin metal.

[@ThinBlueLineGuardian]

As of right now, there is no way to create gravity in the vacuum of space.

[@alexanderx33]

@@ThinBlueLineGuardian Spin...

[@ThinBlueLineGuardian]

@@alexanderx33 That has not been proven

[@alexanderx33]

@@ThinBlueLineGuardian What? It's common sense dude. Just teather to a counterweight and get spinnin' simple.

[@openlink9958]

@@alexanderx33 not really, because you are spinning instead of gravity actually pulling you down the centrifugal force would make the blood inside your head move at that direction everytime you turn your head, which would make you unconscious instantly

[@Laura-S196]

Boeing is going to charge NASA $90 million per seat to the ISS on their Starliner, which is the same as Russia charges for a seat on Soyuz. SpaceX charges only $55 million per seat

[@imeakdo7]

Nasa wants a backup

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

@@imeakdo7 musk building 1k starships say don,t have worry getting too space

[@internetisinteresting7720]

US prefers pay 200$millions to any USA company than pay 1$ dollar to the professional and reliable Russian space program

[@iamarokotmanson]

@@internetisinteresting7720 Soyuz is much less capable than Dragon 2

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

It's good to have a backup with stuff this important

[@user-fr3hy9uh6y]

My bet is on Starship. It has an internal volume similar to the ISS and could be the next space station in a single launch. Lets see what happens with the lunar lander first, it could also be the next space station.

[@NadeemAhmed-nv2br]

Or a Starship could be used to launch a Bigelow module which when sent in space expands to a size much larger than the starship

[@miles2378]

@@NadeemAhmed-nv2br is Bigelow still in buisness this is a seriouse question im not trying to snarky?

[@Kevinwelch2001]

@@miles2378 they are in a weird state of limbo. Fired everyone for the duration of Covid, but they plan to rehire their staff. Atleast that’s what they say.

[@starscream1457]

This time india shoukd also be included along with others as they can build things in much cheaper rates... Their 750 million dollar mars orbiter mission was a success in first attempt and is now successfully working there and doing its job..... World needs to unite.. All countriee could contribute to make that

[@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot]

@@NadeemAhmed-nv2br If the size expansion stays the same, (1.5x) then starship can maybe carry a module that expands to about 44 diameter x 59 length feet (13.5 diameter x 18 length meters) About 2,300 cubic meters of volume

[@gahrie]

A single Starship has as much pressurized volume as the ISS. Replace the ISS with a command module equipped with multiple docking ports. Launch Starships to dock with that module for months or years, then return their experiments to Earth and replace them with a different Starship with different experiments. Send another Starship equipped as a deep space observatory and park it at a Lagrange point.

[@sudonim7552]

A single Starship *may have as much pressurized volume as the ISS. There has not been a single Starship so far with any pressurized volume. We'll consider it when they've demonstrated it.

[@jeffmyname1637]

Also pressurized space is 1% of the requirement. Radiation shielding, electricity, heat displacement systems, a pseudo water cycle, and a means to evacuate/dock among other things are all amenities of the iss.

[@gahrie]

@@jeffmyname1637 You mean all of those things every spacecraft is already designed to do?

[@nutsackmania]

They turnt an S-IVB into a Skylab in only a few years--not hard.

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

I think a starship would require allot of modifications to be suitable as a space station, especially given its made of thin stainless steal.

[@ej0272]

one word: starship

[@ericrotermund1004]

Yup the they is dumber than peanut butter on steak 🥩 can you say stainless space station lol

[@manfreds.6384]

Sore loser murica would most likely spend trillions developing the tech then china and russia would most likely benefit from them.

[@shadowkillz9606]

@@manfreds.6384 murica doesn't exist buddy

[@tooradical7556]

bruh what the hell are these replies lol

[@shadowkillz9606]

@@tooradical7556 truuuuuu

[@yuvanbaldwinew9282]

Thanks to everyone who has helped in such an engineering Marvel. My uncle welded the USA 🇺🇸 section of the ISS in 96 . He said that the tolerance of a human hair was considered a huge gap. I used to work at ameriflex in deer park tx which makes gaskets for NASA and basically the same situation zero tolerance.

[@musicmanmatt87]

It's infuriation that congress wouldn't fund such a cheap program. 150 million dollars is a rounding error compared to military allocation or virtually any other aspect of the federal budget.

[@Sing_singo]

Still funny that the US congress excluded China from the ISS in 2011 for national security reasons and 10 years later China has its own and the same people are worried about national security still.. 😂😂

[@FighterFlash]

Well yeah they did it in 10 years!!

[@akanjisekoni]

@@FighterFlash does China have its own space station???

[@litan1728]

Well, thanks US for the boycott

[@TheLivetuner]

@@akanjisekoni 3 Chineses astronauts has been living on it for a couple of months now.

[@badtrekee4348]

@@FighterFlash And has a more advanced up to date space station

[@green8026]

10:43 That guy looks like he just ripped one and is escaping the fumes, leaving his comrades to the stench

[@marekhalama86]

This is why you are not a part of this industry but instead sitting in your mom's basement not having any clue to what is important and talking about farts n fumes so shut up and sit down ya clown and go do something worthy of anything.

[@n3xu59988]

Blame BLUE ORIGIN for the delays on NASA!

[@murc111]

That's delaying nothing, Musk isn't hitting the pause button, he's still going full throttle, he knows he'll get the 3 billion. The biggest (real) delay is the moon suits.

[@Engineer9736]

@@murc111 I think Andrew was just grabbing any chance to pee over Blue Origin. It’s a joke.

[@imeakdo7]

@@Engineer9736 yeah, hating on bezos is trendy (i'm not defending him, but i'm fuck1ng tired of seeing everyone do the same thing just for the sake of it)

[@ooooneeee]

*Sue Origin

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@imeakdo7 elon still needs compitition, haveing the two biggest billionaires competite with each other is good for the consumer was theywill not have a monopoly

[@danielwang2956]

I know what it's gonna look like: metallic tubes with Chinese flags printed on them

[@patrickganly5206]

It's already up there!🇨🇳 Did nobody tell her??😂😂😂

[@PEK-97]

hollywood be like

[@risingmoon893]

Its cool when the news covers months and even at times years old discovery and talks and try to make them sound brand new.

[@jomo4435]

Discovery and 100 % reliable are different

[@risingmoon893]

@@jomo4435 Well all they did was repeat what I knew months ago from sources that are better than the mass media.

[@Vector_Ze]

@@risingmoon893 Please name your sources, that are better than mass media.

[@risingmoon893]

@@Vector_Ze Just look at company websites that have been working on this for years, or Nasa's open papers.

[@TheBestOfSweden]

The future of humanity in space is exciting.

[@theylivewesleep2623]

keep dreaming

[@TheBestOfSweden]

@@theylivewesleep2623 it’s happening right now

[@theylivewesleep2623]

@@TheBestOfSweden the deception is...

[@skygge1006]

@@theylivewesleep2623yeah… the earth is flat!!! Space is fakee

[@shannonparkhill5557]

Just launch a Starship with over 1000 cubic meters of habitable space inside and its a complete space station just like that. You can even land it for maintenance.

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

I mean you'd have to do allot of modifications, the hull pretty thin for one if its gonna be in L.E.O you probably wouldn't want it for more than storage, maybe when they have the next station they can have it as a starship modification station. Or at least testing what needs to be changed, or a new starship variant that's more durable so it can survive a decade in L.E.O

[@dlewis8405]

I can sort of understand the hesitancy in Congress to hold back funding for the commercial space programs. If this program is the future replacement for ISS why not wind down the ISS program and then move the existing funding to new programs?

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

Because it takes a few years to get a new system online. Like they talked about in the video. NASA stopped the Space Shuttle before moving to commercial crew, and that left a 9 year gap where NASA had to rely on russia for any launches. They want to avoid a similar scenario with a space station.

[@nutsackmania]

A lot of resources have been developed with the ISS as the primary purpose/destination. There are sustainment issues with the gap for a whole range of enterprise.

[@dv8inpp]

If Axiom predicts their 4 module station will cost about $1Billion, which is about how much Tesla's Giga Austin plant cost it's just a matter of finding a product that makes it financially viable.

[@johnl.7754]

They should auction it off private businesses when they are done with it and then use the money for other space ventures.

[@TheBooban]

Nasa already said as much, but I haven’t heard anyone wanting to buy it. Axiom, Sierra said nothing here.

[@theflyjackpl]

Why would anyone buy old space station that is leaking and might be inhabitable in a decade?

[@steveaustin2686]

Russia owns the half that run the station. With their cash problems, maybe they will work something out or not. They turned down Musk when he wanted a rocket or two and look how that turned out for them.

[@nutsackmania]

Money is pretend.

[@LEDewey_MD]

Great update. Thanks!

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

In the right hands,space exploration,and colonization,will bring trillions of dollars of profit and create a whole multitude of industries and jobs.

[@MrSvenovitch]

You're pretty bored aintcha?

[@KRYMauL]

Even in the wrong hands it'll create trillions of dollars, but with the caveat of relying on things like slavery, in the forms of apprentices and prisoners.

[@MikeNapoli1989]

So true !!!!!

[@acetrainer_zack2455]

@@MrSvenovitch what’s your beef with space, like there’s nothing better to do with the money. Cause climate change will take a hell of a lot longer to do

[@quantumblur_3145]

Oh god this isn't what space exploration was supposed to be about

[@matthewevans1217]

10:10 "And not having a station finished in time could spell real trouble for NASA." When Space Station Freedom was proposed in 1984, it was originally planned to launch some time around the early 1990s (roughly 92 ?), but it eventually developed into the International Space Station by 1998. That's almost a decade of delays and NASA's still here in the end

[@nurphurecarnium]

is that really nasa fault tho? i mean, many countries also wanted to participate. but yea, i admit they like to delay stuff

[@sfguzmani]

That's how government project works! This is a private agency project. Just take a look at NASA SLS and SpaceX Starship, compare both and see what I mean.

[@willienelsongonzalez4609]

I’m all for commercial private companies building government projects, but I do hope there is considerable oversight with these interstellar projects and harsh penalties if the companies fail to deliver on safety measures. That said, I look forward to the day we have the first USS Enterprise!

[@KRYMauL]

That will likely be the name of the first SpaceX Starship.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

@@KRYMauL they did the shuttle was the first

[@quantumblur_3145]

Yeah, if this stuff starts getting commercialized the way commercialization currently happens, space exploration is just gonna congeal into another profit-centric bureaucratic hellscape and it makes me sad to think that's the direction it's going.

[@Jason.W.]

The Star Trek intro music in the background is pretty nice

[@_TallTaleTavern]

I think they should make a new station with the ability to be a “moving”station with lander abilities for low gravity planets. It could be used as a “ferry” in a sense and could be able to manage continuous trips to the moon and back. Could easily “dock” on moon and stay there for its research missions, base development on moon to become a “major hub” for Mars travelers. Once it’s done, come back to earth, stay in low orbit to receive supplies and such, basic research like in iss currently. If something happens to our planet, we would already have stations in low orbit that could support people for relocation. Star ships and orbiting stations should be built as a multifunctional ark, in a sense. A mini moving earth, sort of.

[@jondabon6522]

It’s a cool idea but I think all the fuel required would make it impractical. The station could be more like a port, where after leaving earth’s atmosphere “the hardest part” they can use the station to transfer to lighter pods to go to the moon and whatnot

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

blame Nixon your buddy lash nasa for the war in Vietnam. had rotating space station with a large zero grav von braun had in 1970.s

[@harmonyspaceagency1743]

Maybe one day, orbital infrastructure will need a major upgrade

[@cesarordaz139]

We could’ve built several Space Stations if the U.S. never entered Afghanistan

[@yinyang9109]

No problem, U.S just print more money, easy piezy.

[@thewiirocks]

No we wouldn’t have. The aerospace contractors have become complete money pits in the last 25 years. You might as well light the money on fire for all the benefit we’ve been getting for it. Just look at SLS. Complete boondoggle that is massively over budget and time with still no equipment flying. Thank God for SpaceX. If they hadn’t kickstarted the industry again, we’d be looking at the permanent retirement of the ISS with only paper plans on building a replacement. You know, “if they can get the funding”. 🙄

[@brianisme6498]

Gotta look further back bud. The US has been keeping up their military budgets since the world wars so they can stay a superpower. Space stopped being a priority when the space race ended.

[@brianisme6498]

@This is not an apple science is so interesting. Acknowledge that everyone has different opinions

[@thewiirocks]

@@Fishmans It’s not really the irony you think it is. The government contractors used to be engineering-led organizations that put their own money on the line along with the funding from the government in order to see amazing things happen. They were basically the SpaceX’s of their day. Sometime in the 90s, they manages to become money-making machines at the expense of delivering quality results. They managed to drive off many of their top engineers and their work grew poorer and poorer in quality. It’s also worth noting that the 90s timeframe dovetails with the point where technology projects got so complex that they tended to fail more often than they succeeded. In the software world this lead to the rise of Agile as a counterforce. In the aerospace world, they just got bigger, dumber, fatter, and happier. After all, who else was the US Government going to employ?

[@chessdad182]

Instead of wasting money on Afghanistan, spend money on this.

[@warrenwhite9085]

A MUCH smarter move would be to downsize or eliminate bloated, incompetent, pork driven, hopelessly failed Federal Agency NASA & instead fund Xprizes for innovative, efficient, spirited US private enterprises accomplishing US space goals like Lunar colonies, Americans on Mars, visits to asteroids, etc. Taxpayers would get 10 times more for 1/10 the cost.

[@monsterous289]

Sure, but if Russia and China become incredibly buddy-buddy with everyone in the middle east....that would be dreadful

[@idkhowtoright479]

@@warrenwhite9085 the problem with privet companies is that their goal is to make money, government agencies like NASA aren't focused on making money. It wouldn't make sense for SpaceX to develop, build and launch a rover to Mars unless it's profitable for them

[@kirkentachas9643]

Well that's the US expertise, wasting money

[@warrenwhite9085]

@@idkhowtoright479 You are wrong, you don’t understand Government or private enterprises, what motivates founders.. Founders start corporations/businesses to provide needed goods/services, serve humanity.. making money is necessary but secondary. The free market forces altruism, the necessity to provide some goods/services individuals are willing to pay for, then to be efficient hence competitive, innovative, spirited…Ford wanted to build cars, Bell wanted Americans to have phones, Edison wanted to light the world, etc.... Elon Musk’s vision was renewable energy vehicles so he founded Tesla to make them… Elon saw what a miserable mess big government NASA had made of US space & wanted to make space affordable & wanted humanity on other worlds… SpaceX’s mission.. In direct contrast, government is an amoral, greedy, wasteful, corrupt, uncaring, irresponsible, parasitic monopoly which takes what it wants at the point of guns & jails.. cares not about individual choice, results, efficiency, or getting anything done…Bloated, pork driven Federal Agency NASA is a prime example.. Dead wood centers/HQ dedicated only to propagating & expanding itself, keeping the 3 martini lunches coming.. Government is the problem, never the solution.

[@debiannebalmer8166]

Thank you for sharing your simulation.

[@favesongslist]

I am so disappointed NASA did not buy a Bigelow Space Station, The test called BEAM is so successful it is still part of the ISS years after the test was over. NASA seamed to want Bigelow to go bust :(

[@steveaustin2686]

Some idiot Congresperson years ago squashed NASA work with inflatible habitats, as they were afraid it would be used to go to Mars. NASA planned on using it on the ISS. Bigelow bought the system and research and worked with NASA on BEAM. Apparently Covid did them in and they haven't reopened. Rumors are that one or more other aerospace companies are interested in buying Bigelow.

[@GD15555]

I noticed nasa now always relies on someone else to build stuff for them. What do they do anymore?

[@coreytaylor447]

they do it in the name of international cooperation, they can still do everything themselves if they want its just cheaper to do it this way so that multiple nations can shoulder the burden with NASA

[@chronovore7234]

Nasa has never really built anything. From the time nasa was founded it has been law that they are required to contract out all work as a form of job creation and to put more money into the economy.

[@coreytaylor447]

@CL Melonshark the Shuttle was built by contract under Boeing and Rocketdyne. the Saturn 5 was also built by Boeing for that matter. NASA builds their own space probes and equipement but when it comes to the rocket themselves, they dont care who makes it so long as it gets them into space

[@lore00star]

We need a space station with artificial gravity

[@nurphurecarnium]

Probably wouldn't come in the near future

[@lore00star]

@@nurphurecarnium Yea i guess so. But we can't stop dreaming :D

[@elazarpimentel5340]

I know this is all good, but Matt Ondler does not look too happy about it. Matt, smile for the camera! :D

[@justinb.2510]

Good coverage

[@BareSphereMass]

4:10 That looks like a modern version of Dyna-Soar (Boeing X-20) (or maybe the Dream Chaser) EDIT: 8:33 its the Dream Chaser

[@alanmakoso1115]

2 space stations in LEO in the future: The new ISS and China's TianGong

[@rjd1564]

Well the iss will probably be retired once a functioning replacement is up and running

[@AB-fi5jt]

It’ll probably be the new ISS and Tiangong-5.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

russia spacex my be blue orgin

[@tluangasailo3663]

Commercial space Station could not be limited to one , there could be many in upcoming years

[@user-eh7ke6wx6m]

It sounded to me like one beeg commercial for Axiom. There was no mention of the Bigelow Airspace whose inflatable module has been in service with ISS since 2016

[@steveaustin2686]

Bigelow folded during Covid and has not reopened. Rumors are that one or more aerospace companies are interested in buying Bigelow.

[@dosmastrify]

Were you guys trying to set a record for frequency of ads

[@chrisyanover1777]

So from my understanding the inflation space sections are actually stronger that the metallic exterior that the ISS currently has. It's basically like a a bullet proof vest but times 4!

[@nutsackmania]

It's not as much about strength at orbital velocities, but dispersing energy.

[@KRYMauL]

This would be a great opportunity to give Space Force an actual reason for existing maybe they could be tasked with securing the transportation of people and goods through the vastness of space. This would also be why Space Force should be a subsec of the Navy not Air Force.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

space airforce due rockets , sure one make space battleships change too the navy.

[@smartass6071]

By the time we get to the point where a space station will be common place, there will be so much space junk that it will not be safe. Even a small paint chip moving at 27,000mph will do a lot of damage. We already track over 100,000 pieces of space junk and growing.

[@turdlemelton3571]

Commercial space station would be cool, but microgravity research is essential in moving humanity forward in all branches of science, so a commercial space station/hotel would be neat we do need a main one for microgravity research. Let's be realistic.

[@rogerver451]

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[@mikephilip5737]

Yeah! I agree with you sir

[@mikephilip5737]

That's true most people today have been having a lot of failures in forex and crypto sector because of poor orientation and bad experts

[@sophiafischerfischer2723]

I did invest with her and I made huge profits

[@sophiafischerfischer2723]

I saw the recommendation but I didn't bother chatting her up I keep loosing teally i still don't understand how the forex market works tho

[@larakeller7720]

my cousin recommended her to me. He has been investing with her for some months now, but he earns just 60% of whatever he invests in a week which i think its too low,

[@ajr993]

I'm glad you didn't perpetuate the scam that is the gateway foundation or the voyager space station

[@micronuke1933]

How is it a scam? I loved the concept but I found it far fetched aswell

[@ajr993]

@@micronuke1933 Because nothing about it is real and the people running it are con artists looking to make a quick buck.

[@kairon156]

This is a super exciting time to be alive. It'll be sad once the old sections of the space station have to be retired but if their getting outdated and leaky to the point of costing money it's time to replace them with these new technologies.

[@mitchelltharp8023]

Think of the film industry renting space hubs to film movies haha

[@badsamaritan8223]

A new space station that's anything other than multiple Starships strung together is gonna have a hard time being economical at this point.

[@monsterous289]

Man, this is going to get defeated so badly if SpaceX realizes StarShip's potential as a multi-year orbital lab. Multiple orbiting the Earth...that would be a site to see

[@murc111]

That's probably 15 years away, they aren't thinking that far out.

[@LeongGunners]

I was just thinking, wouldn't a couple of reconfigured Starship attached together be able to serve as a nice station? They don't need to go very far off Earth, and no re-entry or landing worry, so maybe lighter and smaller fuel tank Starships?

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

@Corentin Bresteau The Starship will need multiple week to multiple months of life support for the missions they will be doing.

[@monsterous289]

@Corentin Bresteau As of now, yes, the prototypes do not have life support, batteries, energy sources for multi-week or longer stay in space, but I've heard the payload which is meant to hold cargo, satellites, etc is made so they can one day have a living space larger or equal to the current ISS volume wise. Unless there is evidence of the contrary, we'll just have to wait and see how SpaceX's Starship develops

[@WasatchWind]

I don't think SpaceX will build their own station for a while. They've already got good stuff going on with Axiom, and are working towards the Moon and Mars as their primary focus. However I am sure they are thinking a great deal about the possibility of Starship as a space station.

[@brookestephen]

expanding balloons are great, but you need many flights to populate the balloons with equipment before you can live there. You can't send equipment inside deflated balloons... defeats the purpose of saving space!

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Just paint "Brondo" on the ISS. That's what seeing Lowe's feels like.

[@chrisyanover1777]

It's what plants crave! It gots electrolytes!

[@MrSoloDev]

Imagine Spacex single handedly also create the next space sation. I mean at this point, why not right ?

[@KRYMauL]

SpaceX is a rocket manufacturer, like Boeing and Airbus, this means they don't technically have the expertise to make space stations as those are basically buildings.

[@MrSoloDev]

@@KRYMauL Right, your answer is totally *sane*. But, Elon Musk is *insane*, he even decided to build a robot with his car company. He’s proved time and time again that if nobody does it then he’ll do it. His world is not complicated. Where most people see barriers, he sees opportunities.

[@KRYMauL]

@@MrSoloDev Actually Musk's "revolutionary" factory has been a thing for 100 years by a man by the name of Henry Ford. His only real contribution was that his factory is for only electric cars, but the first gigafactory is literally a repurposed GM factory. Musk has only really create the reusable rockets everything else is just breaking into already established infrastructure.

[@dexterpeligro7452]

@@KRYMauL you are right but musk will really do it cuz he is insane

[@steveaustin2686]

@@KRYMauL Nah, SpaceX outsources when they don't do it themselves and they get the price they want. Otherwise, they move it in-house. NASA noted that SpaceX will be using already existing contractors for fitting out the interior of Lunar Starship, so they could do the same for a station module. Or move it in-house like they have done so many times before.

[@odinangie1377]

I'd love to see multiple space stations orbiting earth and eventually even worlds beyond!

[@MikeNapoli1989]

I’m sure at some point humanity will.

[@pennwood7]

Clean our oceans first and it's about time to figure out how to fight grass and forest fires..don't you think? Instead figuring out how to get to Mars

[@MikeNapoli1989]

@@pennwood7 we can definitely do both.

[@semi-automaticdooropened9007]

@@pennwood7 eh we can do it simultaneously

[@Kenneth_James]

There are 2 already

[@gameboy228]

Once inflated how are components installed in particular larger structural components?

[@runejohansen1335]

Where/What did the photon get it`s Velocity from?

[@dansv1]

Interesting question. I googled it. When a particle is at rest (p = 0), this general equation reduces down to the familiar E = mc2. In contrast, for a particle with no mass (m = 0), the general equation reduces down to E = pc. Since photons (particles of light) have no mass, they must obey E = pc and therefore get all of their energy from their momentum.

[@DenLim123]

I actually want China to be the one that will take the next leap in space technology

[@user-zl5cv6vw2m]

Uh oh, prepare for the 'muricans that will come and attack this comment.

[@chronovore7234]

Hopefully it will push congress to give nasa more money. If there is anything that will get their attention, it’s China being better than the US.

[@lawrenceiverson1924]

They could power the next one with a small Molten salt reactor and not need those huge, vulnerable solar wings

[@Astra2]

I think the reason this has not been done is because launching a nuclear reactor is dangerous.

[@elite3254]

If only it were that easy.

[@lawrenceiverson1924]

@@Astra2 Not so much W/ a Thorium Molten Salt Reactor I urge you to Google it !!

[@lawrenceiverson1924]

@@elite3254 Check my reply below !!

[@lawrenceiverson1924]

Above !!

[@BlastingRyan609]

Axiom? Where have i heard that before? *flashback to WALL-E*

[@Roblox_SBPepperminion]

What about all Aerospace companies make their own space station with multiple segments like Axiom Orbital Segment or Sierra Orbital Segment or Nanoracks Orbital Segment. Like said station's predecessor. If the space agencies want in then that can be a decision from all the commercial companies.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

moon be first due too mining it.

[@djp1234]

I hope China builds a base on the Moon.

[@helderalmeida3417]

I hope too so they can evacuate all Chinese including you to Moon and leave us in peace 😂

[@bin.s.s.]

@Helder No. They need some examples like you to go there and do some human body evaporation experiments in vacuum.

[@sblue3964]

@@helderalmeida3417 Unfortunately that's never gonna happen. China's/Chinese' influence on planet earth will grow stronger no matter you like it or not. You migrating to another planet (world) would be a more realistic option :)

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

@@sblue3964 Muslim's hate china ,lol never happens way more Muslim's then Chinese.

[@sblue3964]

@@hillbillyintheasia6122 Yeah right. Apparently your mind is filled with hatred. I feel sorry for you

[@MrGlenspace]

Unfortunately biegelow shut down and I believe not coming back.

[@bhamptonkc7]

You could build onto one end of the new station and discard older sections from the other end or use them for other projects. Store some resources in it and park it. Waste nothing. A few years from now people may be farming this old stuff.

[@yaswanthpaani.k2113]

Whoa new space station looks cool I love it

[@cbcluckyii4042]

It will be interesting to see how Americans react to any tax increase after all the money wasted in Afghanistan. In addition to start a rival global infrastructure project to rival China's belt & road initiative. Sure that won't be funded with tax payers revenue, but from private sector. Perhaps the private sector can invest in their own country's infrastructure, the one where funding is yet to be decided. The government is more focused on China's progress than it is domestically.

[@KRYMauL]

The private sector in the US has no reason not to keep the status quo because it makes more sense for them to have massive office spaces and industrial area in the same place.

[@gleitsonSalles]

As a Brazilian. I regret that Embraer wasn't able to fullfill our commitments to the ISS

[@godzillaeatsushi4979]

About time we need new space station

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Can't wait for the next Space Station to be an Orbital Particle beam.

[@jaredspencer3304]

Chinese Space Station. Russian Space Station. American Space Station, sponsored by Walmart in partnership with McDonald's, brought to you by Exxon Mobil, with support from The Ford Motor Company and Comcast.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

lol

[@thinukawijerathne]

Congratulations for USA🇺🇸

[@shahanazpervin6596]

The land of gun shooting

[@Peachcreekmedia]

Sierra Space habitats would make incredible regular housing.

[@MusicAutomation]

I'm sure no one else noticed, but whoever made the background music used the first 4 notes of the Star Trek Next Generation theme at 2:38

[@sleepyjoe4529]

The only station? China has one now as well.

[@kratos8709]

Yep

[@isaiahthomas1603]

*Only one with research operational. The new one is still unpacking

[@vati90]

Please tell me I’m not the only one seeing a creepy alien peeking from behind the woman? 😱 1:02

[@benbarberian1701]

No no I see it also, you've got a good eye

[@Engineer9736]

It’s gonna eat her (you can choose yourself whether it will be in the kids of adult way)

[@davidcharles4169]

pareidolia

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

They still think of the zero-G inflatable in terms of floors? Working spaces for human beings in a toroidal shaped space is feet toward the center core where things get narrow. This lets the wide end of each workspace be at the end of the human with the head and hands. A table is useless, have some panels that can cover workstations not currently in use. Cover some of the panels with velcro so you can stick stuff to them and stow the panels between stations when they aren't walls that act like tables. Other workstation covers can be whiteboards or places to store tool-kits to be used at an adjacent workstation.

[@zayyirthomas789]

It took them 40 years to figure out how to cable manage!😂😂😂

[@ramboo64]

Wassuuuuuup

[@freeassange5667]

Wassuuuuupp

[@kratos8709]

Wassuuuuup

[@Mr.Mister420]

Get ur a55 up

[@Maverick25ish]

What would be interesting is if the next ISS was able to travel and orbit the moon for a while and do more research of that, a dedicated engine module to the rear of the ISS is all they need for a TLI, and the same propulsion module could get them home too and resume low earth orbit

[@steveaustin2686]

NASA is building Lunar Gateway for the Artemis program, which will be a station in a Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO) around the Moon. It will support Orion during lunar missions and will do research.

[@TgamerBio5529]

Rotating cylinder or circle structure to study artificial gravity in space ?

[@WasatchWind]

Probably not something we'll see till the end of the decade. There's not enough presence in space yet to warrant such a big station.

[@TgamerBio5529]

@@WasatchWind yeah

[@jennosuriaga7797]

Well i am excited!

[@Wbliss]

The ISS would have to struggle on without the Russians’ participation after 2024 , but the continuation of that project is questionable in the long run where some of the remaining member countries would be having their own agendas. China’s own space station Tiangong would be the only functioning space station then , where there would also be other foreign astronauts participating in the Chinese space station, several years from now.

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Brain after reading thumbnail: Holy sh!t, ISIS is in space now??

[@Engineer9736]

Lol me too

[@chiao2408]

The concept is quite nice and I like it

[@jggerald7877]

The International Space Station was our project for NASA, our concepts, our technologies. We supported it after the Cold War was planned to end. We knew NASA must continue. You know the real 1970s Cold War was StarWars/StarTrek; people or some groups got flying machines of their own, Star Trek ships or pod ships. This was demonstrated in the Hollywood blockbuster movies (which I made) to document the Cold war weapons and technologies. The Hubble Space Telescope was our project too as well as the Mars Rovers project and the James Webb Space Telescope which is now implemented etc. These NASA projects were meant to still support us and give us funding for the 1980s, 90s and beyond, when we figured our Hollywood blockbuster movies, and planned tech giants such as Yahoo, Google, Facebook etc. (already co-owning Apple and Microsoft), even world banks, were being stolen from us. Maybe the US betrayed me because I helped China too in technologies (e.g., planning the Chinese smartphones producers Huawei, Xiaomi, Realme, Lenovo, etc, with complete portfolios of smartphones techs), quantum computing, and space technologies like today's China space station. But we were Asians so I was thinking of world balance. I was the one making the blockbuster Hollywood movies. Do you know it was me who created the Star Trek movies and TV series? Those who betrayed me became Hollywood executives, and global tech companies founders and executives. Modern Hollywood music and movies are mine, I can say. I actually own or co-own the top Hollywood companies, stolen from me. I concentrated my wealth in Hollywood and tech.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

blame Nixon your buddy lash nasa for the war in Vietnam. had rotating space station with a large zero grav von braun had in 1970.s

[@akbarmohammed4eva]

China's Tiangong space station is the Future.

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

baby space station

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

next iss station hold 50 too 100 in it.

[@akbarmohammed4eva]

@@hillbillyintheasia6122 ISS end of life is 2024. extension beyond that requires major surgery as it's starting to fall apart

[@user-cm5dv7qy1t]

中国正在建造自己的空间站 俄罗斯和欧洲航天局也参与了相关的计划 根据沃尔夫条款 美国是不允许和中国进行航天合作的 那美国也自己造个空间站好了 有自己的空间站才符合超级大国的能力

[@cassandramathis8657]

When do ya'll think we will get a spin gravity space station for longer stays?

[@dhruvvyas3786]

Well this opened my eyes.... I wasted my money on a PC game called "Star Citizen", a space action game which has raised $350 million dollars and still not delivered the game. I should have gave my money to one of these companies....

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

did beso own it ,lol , are boeing