The Next Space Station

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, Sci Fi, Post Scarcity, Spacecraft, Energy Abundance, Scifi, Cybernetics, Technological Future, Space Megastructures, Space Station, Starship, Technology, Space Industry, Future Of Humanity, Science, Astronomy, Civilizaiton, Human Civilizaiton, Futurism, Megastructures, Transhumanism, Interstellar Travel, Engineering, Physics, Space Colonization, Future, Long Term Future, Spaceship, Space, Space Infrastructure, Future Philosophy

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The International Space Station has been operating for almost two decades, but a successor for the ISS hasn't been chosen yet. Today we will look at some of the options for our future gateway to the stars. Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/iZyiemMUKqc Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: The Next Space Station Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 303, August 12, 2021 Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: A.T. Long Jason Burbank Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Bryan Versteeg www.spacehabs.com Gateway Foundation https://gatewayspaceport.com Ian Long LITE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRMkYyTiLc8fvfeDtrQgcTA Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Udo Schroeter Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners, in this month's Nebula exclusive, Big Alien Theory,
0:05.2	we're asked at the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:26.3	using the link in the description.
0:28.6	Our future lies out among the stars, but to get there, we are going to need gateways.
0:45.8	Space Station. space stations are ubiquitous in science fiction and almost all discussions of our future, and yet with the ISS having already exceeded its planned lifetime and no successor yet built,
0:51.1	or even formally planned and funded, I thought it might be nice to ask what
0:54.7	we're looking for in our next space station and what might accommodate those needs.
1:00.0	It's easy to forget that the ISS or International Space Station is actually our ninth
1:04.6	inhabited space station since only Mir operated for a long time for 15 years from
1:09.5	1986 to 2001.
1:12.1	Skylab and the various salute space stations had mixed successes as long-term orbital
1:16.6	facilities in the 1970s and 80s, and while we often discuss bigger and border stations on
1:21.9	this show, we tend to skip over the gap between a successor to the ISS and truly mass
1:26.9	fares like the
1:28.0	Burner Sphere, O'Neill cylinder, or the more modest Carpana design, which we'll
1:32.7	discuss toward the end of the episode along with the Lunar Gateway.
1:36.7	The eponymous Brick Moon, appearing in Edward Everett Hayer's 1869 sci-fi novella of
1:42.0	the same name, is the first known depiction of an inhabited
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