What will happen to the International Space Station?
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2019
- After two decades in space, the materials and structures that make up the International Space Station are wearing away and future of the ISS is uncertain. In this video, we look at how long the space station has left, NASA's plans for future space stations and the possibility of SpaceX turning Starship into its own space station.
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A wave of sadness passed me when the words ISS and retire are spoken in the same sentence
Can you tell me how the ISS benefits anyone? Besides the snakes at NASA pocketing billions as a result of people believing nonsense
thank to people like you bo j, we might go extinct in the next thousands of years, since we won't have roots to travel to other planets.
@@lillburtlonk3721 tell me. What has the iss done for you?
@@OrangeGuy i understand it's hard to break away from the beliefs instilled in you from a young age but research everything without pre existing bias and you'll come to the same conclusion millions of people already did.
If you knew anything about space you would think different. People who are against funding NASA are the same people who hate the goverment and believe in dumb conspiracys.
I wish somebody could put cameras and antennas all over the inside and out of ISS and livestream the de-orbiting.
Edit: I’m talking about magic hypothetical ones that could survive re-entry, not the flimsy cameras they have hanging on the outside. The current station setup would surely blackout during the most intense phase of the reentry.
Why isnt their a 360° camera live sttream on top and bottom now?
@@laserfalcon There's some cameras streaming, but a 360º camera would need a lot of band space (that could be more useful for transmitting telemetry and more information.
@@ErickSoares3 im sure it still could be done and seen as very educational
It's possible but don't expect a show. Tiangong 2 livestreamed its fall back to Earth to Chinese scientist but the feed cut out before anything broke due to plasma blackout
@@laserfalcon They could've and they did have a live view, but the experiment broke so there won't be a live feed until someone makes a new experiment and launches it to the ISS. A 360 camera is possible, the ISS has the bandwidth to do it, just no one has bothered to make one and launch it. And no, NASA can't just make one and send it up the next day, it doesn't work like that.
Imagine civilization in 1000 years discovering the iss in the ocean
Lol what iss? The thing won't survive re-entry, maybe a few bits and pieces but that's it.
their probably gonna collect the biggest pieces
The international space station is gonna become the international sea station
People In 1000 years.later will Think That ISS Is a alien ship LOL
@@channelafnan9003 if they didn't became the alians to other civilazed planet
It will be a very sad day when the ISS retires. I remember as a young lad sitting outside on the days of a clear night sky with my father, tracking the movements of the ISS and watching it pass by as a very distant light.
*And further future, the sky was no longer clear, but it remains in my memories...*
Today I saw the ISS with my mother. I will remember this moment when ISS retires in the future
I really Hope starship or something Deorbit it safely and puts it in a museum
I'm sure some future historians would appreciate it if the ISS was dismantled and safely brought back to Earth, assuming that it's possible
NotGonnaHappen.com
@@jshepard152 At best itl be sold to bigelow which would transform the station into a massive hotel.
Dakota Moffatt Maybe turn it into a hotel for civilians in the future.
Dakota Moffatt It won’t happen, the ISS doesn’t travel above us...
Requiring 27 space shuttle launches at US$400 million per launch. Hmmm
The biggest shooting star which everyone can wish upon.
Its gonna be awful not somthing to wish apon
It's gonna trash the ocean
@@salmanrashid how? I'm pretty sure the designed it so that it can fully burn up in the atmosphere when it re enters, idek if you would have ash that falls because I think it purns like plasma of some shit that's how hot it gets
@@salmanrashid most of satellite debris that re-enter earth's atmosphere will burned up in atmosphere. But there's still some chances it will hit the ocean
Dylan Morrison no some parts will survive
I'm going to drop my LEGO ISS when they drop the real one.
rip
Lol I just recently built mine and I love it too much to do that lol
The 2003 one or the 2020 one?
@@DomesticatedDuck 2020. There's a 2003 one?
@@leoslego5965 yeah google it
Imagine how this Iconic Space Station will be reported to future generations in the history books in 20-50 years. I, as a person who grew up during this time and always took the ISS for granted, cannot imagine that. And that's scary in some way.
3:37
"Once Space X has Star-ship up and running,
it could be modified and turned into it's own space station.
with a single Star-ship providing more space than the entire ISS."
This is our rate of progression, amazing!
Only due to someone besides government getting into the game.
@Sawyer Dickson we have been to the moon, which is on actual space. There none of earth's atmosphere up there.
Triton 64 yeah but we still have earth magnetic fields as protection even there
@Sawyer Dickson well I get in very scarse amounts there is air, but it's like negligible
@Sawyer Dickson Earth's atmosphere never really ends. It fades away and the further you go into space the fewer and fewer amount of particles there are per cubic meter.
What if nemo dies from the deorbiting space station?
Then we won't have to worry about c'thulu anymore!
Um
@@tompeck5495 lol i am crying rn
one cartoon character destroyed by another
*Sigh
Whos watching when two more Americans are getting launched to the ISS
Me
Me rn still folowing all three streams
23h in
Me
Another space station is coming this year
woke up at 7am in new zealand to watch
Just seems like the world is just growing apart and going their own way. The optimism of a united Earth in the 90s with the ISS will literally go down in flames its a pity.
Your voice just goes so well with this script, it would be very interesting to see you cover the more technical aspects of previous space missions. Keep it up man!
@GodMade TheGlobe ??
GodMade TheGlobe please dont be a flat brained flat earther that doesnt beleieve in the moon landings
@jason ling Your comment is serious, but no one can take you seriously because of your profile pic. Seriously man, I can't 😂 😂
The Passionate lol its a pic of earth from the moon
@@monkeypants6764 was talking about the initial commenter forgot to mention his name 😂
*NASA - We will drop the ISS into Point Nemo.*
*Cthulhu - Am I a joke to you ?*
TheTruthIsGonnaHurt only intellectuals will get this
The International Space Station should not have existed. Instead they should've had a moon base with people living on it shortly after the Apollo missions.
@@Angry.General1461 Thank you for your in-depth costs and benefits analysis
hackerman Considering we could also mine the moon for materials that could definitely benefit our costs in the long run..
It's a gift for cthulhu
I know the spacex guy
larry ballard the weed man
Wait is this real elon?
A27M Cromwell1 no 💀💀
Hello
Thats the real Elon Musk!!
When you think of space and how small we are, it's a humbling feeling.
People are out there trying to clean up the oceans...
*NASA* let's dump our trash over the Pacific...
1st the projects are in the Atlantic so far.
2nd should we drop the station on your house? :)
But im wondering wouldn it be a thing to refurbish/Scrap the modules for a new space station? I mean that would require something like a small extra (sucessor) station/Spacedock capable of modifying the things in space.
The following idea is quite naive but for easier understanding if the Hull is "thinned" out by radiation etc, weld a new plate on it making it stronger than before and good for another 25 years. Replace wiring etc. In all i thing that would decrease the needed Materials and Weight needed to ship into space which as far as i know is most of the cost.
That could also be the fist real learning experience by building spaceships in space which is always considered the jump to mars ,or from the moon where we put our eyes on now.
You're right. They should fire up the its thrusters and send it into outer space instead!
At 3:02 those are the party animals of the international space station who parties like there's no tomorrow with loud music that you can hear from Earth with tons of alcohol and lots of nose candy for these party animals...!!
You should watch the video again as it was clearly not NASA
I'd love to hear your solution, because it has to come home somehow..
00:12 _...Conducting an incredible amount of scientific research,_
**shows people floating in zero-gravity and enjoying meals**
And playing guitar
And doing scientific research.
Astronauts gotta eat too....damn
I physically recoiled when that guy started grabbing baby carrots out of midair
Odd how you ignore the astronaut clearly performing a hydroponic experiment in that segment. Pushing an agenda?
"We can appreciate the enormous amount of knowledge it has given us"
The internet: "This is fake and Earth is flat"
the internet: "the moon landing is fake"
@Friday Goood The first one in 1969 with people in it that millions of people still think was staged
@Friday Goood Apollo 11 wasn't the first?
@Friday Goood "first manned landing" there you go
Your mums flat like a floor
Why did my heart just break and I almost started crying when I heard ISS Retiring
Lol
Ok, you’re having mental breakdown with ISS?
Because you're a weak marshmallow.
Well, I did start crying.
Because it's a piece of history that's why
Put some booster rockets on it and put it in orbit around the moon
At 3:02 those are the party animals of the international space station who parties like there's no tomorrow with loud music that you can hear from Earth with tons of alcohol and lots of nose candy for these party animals...!!
Put it on the moon and future missions maybe able to salvage shit to use
dude you know how far it is? it is impossible to bring ISS to moon
wojtekpolska dude there is no time limit
No friction in space give a push to the moon and flies to it
If this doesn’t become a museum I will be fuming
Would have to get me large museum since it’s larger than a 747
Just like the ISS while it falls from the sky
A human can only dream
The blue Traxxas Rustler yeah you’d need a museum as big as a football field
it wont unless spaceX gets a deal with all the woners of the module to pick all of em up with the starship's cargo rocket wich could most likely take 4 modules wich means only 4 reuseable rockets launches:)
This sounds like it's narated by bird person
Patrick Stevenson HE DOES WTF
Lol wtf
Nice
Blows my mind when they still talk about how much these projects cost. Currency is a made up number, we should use whatever resources are needed to continue our growth as a civilisation. And not think twice
"ima do a deconstruction of society watch me guys" -TheLunarr
What about people who make or mine that resources
Such a shame, it really is an engineering marvel!
It's amazing seeing it fly by from here on earth
I think the ISS community will end up doin the museum idea
I feel we must have an iss as a humanity
But like what does it do
@@AluminumOxide u mean after it burns up on re entry ?lol
Land it on the moon. I’m sure all that metal will be useful someday.
Daniel Le Couilliard thats not possible
@@jdwoods5790 yes it is using mercury substances on outer interior surfaces you can drift it to other metals such as mercury found on the moon.
Even if it can’t all be saved, it would be great if some of the parts could be saved from the ocean and put in an exhibit if they will dump it. It’s a huge part of history, and if it can be saved, it should.
"Free up funding"
It's so sad to hear those words, considering how the US government is literally throwing boatloads of money at the military - which will never need to worry about finances.
@John Sylvyn they like not being threatened by war, they don't like war
John Sylvyn well it would help if other countries would actually invest in their militaries so we wouldn’t have to throw a third of our budget keeping 30+ nations safe.
Seriously look how much money are we shoveling at the UN compared to other countries. Yet we’re still near the top when it comes to space travel too.
@@killerkitten7534 ikr, we need to stop babying them lol
@@bornkinggamer3347 then leave the country if ya hate it so much, don't stay here. You complain about our country and think it sucks, yet you stay here
@@bornkinggamer3347 well I definitely don't hate this country and I know that. I dont feel like a patriot, I just like my country and don't want to try to change the government into some different type of country. On the moron part, I think that's kinda unnecessary but I'll except it. The genocide part I did "flinch" and I did find out what you are talking about. There is no hard evidence for it just some media (nobody likes the media, atleast I dont and I think alot of people can agree) saying that MAYBE we might have done some sorta thing and even if we did which we could have, it wouldn't be we are funding just so the higher ups could just watch some genocide far away, it would be for a good reason, not just that they are evil physopaths like you implied that kill innocent people. Lastly, that last part you said doesn't make sense to me, you know I like this country, wy do you want me to leave it, leave if you think there is a better country, stay if it is good, just likeing buying fruit or something. If you like it hard, get it before its ripe but the people who turned down that one can get the overripe one. Who knows if that analogy fit but thats just my thinking. So no I won't leave this country because I love it and if you don't that doesn't mean you should say I'm wrong for liking it.
Today in my University, my group's paper on creating cheap full flow staged combustion engines as a goal for our research has been approved and supported by our uni and they're gonna help us by funding it, wish us luck...
Best of luck for your research project .....I wish the the project would be 100% success and within the time a friend from INDIA....
That's exciting! I hope to hear about a fantastic breakthrough in the near future. Which university?
gonna huh?
@@timearly5226 Have you not heard of the Raptor engine designed by SpaceX? I mean, more power to this guy for his project, and granted that the Raptor hasn't gone to orbit yet, but it is a functional design which has flown on test hops. Unless something really catastrophic happens, the only thing standing between it and orbit is time. ;)
Tow it to the Moon to be left as a monument, and communications relay.
Just think how much fuel you need to get a space station this large and heavy to the orbit of the Moon, not even speaking of cost of landing it.
@@MaycroftCholmsky I never said land it.
And Elon might raise its orbit.
@@ImmortalAbsol Seven words: space debris
@@pillarshipempireemployee0142 Or not.
Connor ImmortalAbsol No, it will be a monument in point Nemo/Spacecraft cemetery.
4:40 "SpaceXploration" :)
Will the Chinese ship have “made in China” on the side ?
😂
it will be a one use Station
@@nickleh6515 一点都不好笑
They'll give a new virus all over again but this time into space
Well when the time comes
*Rip ISS 1998 - 2028*
2028?
You mean 2023-2025
YeahThe Boyz They said the ISS will retire in 2028 but the budget to run it will run out in 2024-2025
look at the pictures on the back of the box to see the other things you can build using the same pieces from that set
......I'd be hiding my face too
@omgwtf696969 oh no another shill is mocking me
Once I saw Hadfield playing the guitar, I nearly cried.
I’ve watched the iss pass over me every night since last year and it’ll be sad when I can’t watch it anymore
2:52 thats debris from a falcon 9.....
Gele Banaan well it’s still gets its point across doesn’t it?
@@fivemagics18 Should have put a disclaimer.
2:10 Elon with maracas, thumbs up for that!
Who’s here after Elon launched the dragon crew space ship to the iss
Nobody.
Sidoxyy 17 people are
Everyone....
Me
Why not deorbit the space station straight into kim jong un house.?
Early7 Strikeland he lives in a palace but your joke was good, also he’d blame it on the West and declare war on the US and South Korea
100,000,000 subscribers without any videos can’t start a war if ur dead
Actually not a bad idea. If he declares war on us, then he will just lose within days die to his malnourished citizens and out dated army equipment.
Connor Bracey, Kimberly isn’t the only person North Korea
Nice joke, but due to it’s orbit it would be impossible anyways.
1:43 this is where you are very wrong good sir. As we all know SpaceX is currently developing their new rocket BFR, and starship could easily fit a module from the ISS.
I'm hoping that they can bring down the Hubble telescope when its service lifetime runs out. A few ISS modules to put in a museum alongside it would also be pretty darn epic!!
@@TallinuTV nah, shoot it into the ocean and save the money for a future space station
Yancarlo Ramsey
I’d rather the entire ISS become a museum.
This was really interesting, thank you for such a high quality video!! ☺
We already know whats going to happen to the ISS. It's going to be sent off 700 million miles away from Earth where multiple extraterrestrial species will begin to build on to the station until it expands to about the same size as Earth's Moon and then it will becomes known as the city of a thousand planets duh. Haven't you seen the movie Valerian? lol
Let's be honest though that movie sucked
@@TyhgYT it was ok I guess
No it’ll an alien civilization will be born and angry robots are going to come flying to earth looking for a pair of glasses
@@matthewrutledge7089 ARE YOU USERNAME LADIESMAN217???
Tyhg1231 YT haha
I love space and stuff like that and for some reason this makes me really sad that they are deorbiting this legend of a space station
NASA will leave the space station to private companies and it’ll be covered in ads but will continue to fly for many years.
the ISS will be the attraction, if taken over. Rather than the landmark itself being covered, the logic is in favor of branded models being docked, to preserve the attraction.
But one time it will get so old that will need to be deorbited for safety.
The International Space Station should not have existed. Instead they should've had a moon base with people living on it shortly after the Apollo missions.
@@ErickSoares3 Exactly. The structure, particularly the connections between modules, undergoes constant wear, even from the various small stresses placed on them by tidal forces and such. And eventually something could fail catastrophically, resulting in sudden depressurization and potentially the death of anyone onboard when that happened. Unfortunately this means that the most expensive structure ever built has a limited lifespan simply for safety reasons, without even getting into other potential factors.
@The Angry General The economics of that just wouldn't have been viable. And the ISS has provided invaluable return on investment in the form of many years of data, not just from explicitly formulated experiments, but also knowledge of how humans are affected by long durations in free fall and how to cope with those effects, not to mention the amount of experience we've gained related to simply living and working in space effectively. There are things you just can't learn from short duration missions. And while a base on the moon will certainly provide a lot of similarly interesting opportunities to expand our knowledge, getting there regularly without breaking the bank requires the kind of knowledge, technology, and production economics that are only now starting to become a reality.
Hope they find an ad space for 'No Litter Here Please '🙏
This video got you my subscription. Exited to see more from you 😁👍
Excited
Normal people: can't we bring it all back down for museum?
NASA: NO WAY 27 SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCHES
*Starship enters the chat*
ISS ending soon? Sad.
Lunar Space Station and possible missions to Mars? COOOOLL!!!
Thing is the people that go to mars might never return
A museum with ISS modules would be really awesome, but yeah the things you mentioned really makes such an endeavor improbable.
I love watching it float by in the sky.
Wishing on s star days are sadly leaving with it. 😪🙏
The starahip space station idea is great, dude!
We could call it the 'Star-Station'
i love that name dude
Someone tweet this at Elon
Glad I am able to track this thing and be able to see from below before it is gone.
NASA is also considering finding private investors like SpaceX to get help with funding ISS, and allowing private agencies to send their own modules
No one wants to fund it! Lol
@@jshepard152 Bigelow aerospace always wanted to buy out the space station tbh.
4 billion...
You have a mesmerising voice.
NASA:dumps entire space station into ocean
Greta:”HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!”
They should put it in a museum tbh,otherwise it will damage the oceans
@@lauragodridge8966 We cannot get it anywhere in the atmosphere without it burning up
1 month of quarantine: “I don’t even know what I’m watching anymore”
This comment stopped being funny after I saw it a hundred times
Great video, like always :)
Its great the more nations get into space, because it probably will bring us further in terms of technology and scientific research but its also really sad at the same time. Space travel/research is an excercise for humanity as a whole and should be accomplished together! Together we are stronger 🇪🇺🇨🇦🇨🇳🇯🇵🇷🇺🇺🇸🇮🇳
2:49 poor choice of footage
HOW??? It’s not like SpaceX killed someone with that so what’s so inappropriate about using it?
@@Henriburger1 he wasn't talking about anything related to SpaceX dude. He was talking about MIR being tossed Into the Pacific...
Dont be rude when you aren't even talking about the same thing they are. Geezus
I love the shot of the shuttle docked at the station.
Goodnight
You were more than humanity deserves
Hope that in my lifetime we’ll get a space station with gravity
You got one its called Earth lol
@@honeybadger9425 So where is it?
Gravity manipulation wont happen anytime soon
@@Agent47Gaming. Well we could spin one but its not advisable if you wish to dock or anything lol
@@honeybadger9425 just part of it.
2:49 - 2:54: it's not right to use footage from the SpaceX landing blooper reel here. Those are attempted booster landings far from Point Nemo, and has nothing to do with Mir.
Lol yeah, I was watching and was like "wait, I've seen that footage before"
The big thing is that was an explosion, space junk falling to earth would most certainly not explode upon hitting the surface
They dun goof by implying that video was mir crashing in ocean. Nice try but they cant get away with that.
Bloopers = catastrophic failure
I mean I gotta give it to him Elon Musk is fucking amazing at marketing. Nobody else could pass that shit off as a playful little accident.
They should put the Iss in a massive museum Suspended from the ground! You would be able to climb in it with a rope system and have a tour:)
Very nice and
Informative.
Lol a ad about ISS before this video for me XD
2024!!! Wow that sounds great!!! I can't wait for Livestream from the moon to appear on RUclips!!!
Wow, a lots going to happen this year that I have never heard of
Nice video. I wonder how the next space station is going to look like.
*makes my own space company in 2 seconds and saves the ISS*
X Æ A-12 *kidnaps a certain guy named elon*
X Æ A-12 *does the Japanese dude who somehow escaped like 4 prisons*
X Æ A-12
*uses questionable bullet dodging skills*
It's 2019!!! USE THE METRIC SYSTEM! Especially with with a feat of engineering as such.
Bruh there are American people watching this. They won't understand the metric system
@@shahimagesyt shame
@J Calhoun sorry what I meant is that some Americans are comfortable with seeing the imperial then metric.
@@shahimagesyt and the rest of the world that isnt americans?
@@deleteduser1603 wdym?
I plan on going there and soon after the drop grabbing a few pieces if I can. Preserving and owning an amazing piece of history.
I hope they have a live feed of it breaking up on re-entry from a bunch of different angles whenever that may be
Why don't we just de-orbit it into the flat-earth society building?
or how about we send all flat earthers and anyone who thinks space is a hoax into it and then de-orbit
You gotta give credits to the guy in space filming
Cool video!
I hope that by then starship can use its cargo bays to retrieve as much of the station as possible, and have them re assembled on earth to make a giant museum.
I had a dream to go to space for years and know it’s going to end... :(
It's not gonna be the last space station, we'll probably have more in the future.
@@Zekerets If we had... hope so...
its not ending, its changing. View it as a new era is space exploration, we're going more ambitious!
go on space camp in huntsville alabama and u can expirience a simulated version of the iss :)
They should bring the ISS intact in BFR ships, it would be a tourist place for centuries that would generate a lot of money
Gonna tell my kids this is where i always wanted to go when i was a kid
thx 4 this data
So that whole ISS thing in Valerian was fake? The ISS won't become an intergalactic space hub for all species?
Can we go to that ocean location to pick up parts and to see if there proof?
Yes
Yes you can. Since it is in international waters, anything you pick up will be yours and nobody will bother you.
@@zeendaniels5809 yes but if there is a large U.S. Naval force in the area the one with the bigger guns and weapons always wins.
@@pkerry12 JAJAJAJA good point 😂
Look up and see a 747 flying 6 miles up. You can just about see it right? Now make that 60 times smaller - not visible to the naked eye and you will struggle to see that size at 250 miles up. What telescope do you have?
I’m really sad about ISS going soon but then when he mentioned taking it down and the shuttle is the only thing that can I wave of happiness went over me because I am absolutely in love with the shuttles
2:37 I watched that from my front porch I thought I was gonna die but it just burned up.
This mf is gonna make make me cry on a piece of metal
They should hold up an auction for billionaires to get rooms in the ISS, that way it won’t be destroyed
it's old. Why not build something new and state of the art than paying for something that might still do its work but is also outdated as hell.
yes where they sell em for billions and ending up decaying not being able to givign refunds a way to make money and get sued u with me :) lol
Awesome graphics
Just imagine seeing that, blazing through the sky☄
Hope it lands in my yard. Will turn it into a garage.
Hope it lands on MY yard, will turn it into an iron man suit.
i will sell it for rare tomy items
I can’t even imagine a world without the ISS, it’s one of the greatest things humanity has ever done and to loose it would be heartbreaking
I want to see an epic grand finale. The whole thing deprbiting at once, crashing and burning up in the atmosphere as the whole thing is transmitted and livestreamed to earth, from multiple angles.
beautiful animations and stage settings; above all, the coverage of the ISS within some "frames". It only fails to agree on how fast the earth's surface passes and its size.
It’s about and football field and it orbits every 90 minutes. That’s common knowledge in the space community. If you not convinced it exist then get a telescope and see it for yourself
Couldn’t starship return parts of it?
Could probably return the whole thing. The thing is going to be plan and execute such a complex dangerous expensive mission.
Same thought.
@@praveenneevarp4822 I don't think that star ship would be able to land carrying all that wait pretty sure its designed to land empty or close to it as far as payload goes.
Big oof. I always dreamed of going to the ISS when I’m older. I guess not.
Still waiting for the JWST. Just can’t get my head around that!
Fisher man : atleast we’re nearest to point Nemo
ISS: *no thats a Foul*
Wow . It's real . Great real images ffs
we could bring it back with starship!
iCrafterChips got millions of dollars hanging around?
I would personally love it if it were brought back down to Earth in pieces & displayed as a museum exhibit. The space shuttle issue aside, I’m sure building a structure to house something the size of a US football field shouldn’t be very hard. As much as we spend on other things, putting $ towards breaking down the ISS wouldn’t be any worse than what we already spend anyway.
For a video titled "What will happen to the International Space Station?" there is a definite lack of information as to what will actually happen to the International Space Station when it's mission is complete.