Nautilus -X The Movie

[Starpilot149]

If you look closely at the projection pn the front, you will see where the "bridge" is.

So blocky and primitive. yet still looks like a spaceship. Makes me feel old...

let's call it the "Model T"

[mongorians22]

I want to play quidditch in zero gravity SO FUCKING BADD.....

[SmartAlx]

It spins too fast. It would be like a carnival ride. We can only spin about one revolution a minute long term.

[PlanckLimit]

OMG it spins!

[UncleFester84]

Dear Santa...

[magicznyrafal]

is it possible to build this ship without shuttle's??

[Risenangelicaegis]

@magicznyrafal Actually Much more possible than it was with them :-)

[Tounushi]

It will be awesome beyond words if/when they decide to build this ship.

And it will be a REAL space ship.

Humanity is moving up in the world, so to speak.

[TonyLalangue]

I'm curious about the predicted G force in the rotating module (and, of course the coriolis force).

[cjsf92]

i wonder what came first, the acronym or the proper name :P

[PatriotsRepublic]

Screw international partnerships.... I say deregulate space and allow private companies to make these for asteroid mining and the like... no subsidies, no taxes to pay, and no hand outs.... just pure free market. If I had 10 billion, I'd do it.

[Vampus]

Sounds like a great opportunity for the next large international partnership post-ISS (or in parallel with.)

[gotaub]

Big supporter of Nautilus X. Thanks for the animation

[serpentphoenix]

We really gotta build thing!!!! =]

[viceroy43443]

I think it is doable. It would have to be a colaberative effort. NASA could not do it alone. If NASA could work on the general oversight and let the private sector build the facility I could see this happening within 10 years...

[coldbloodid]

@viceroy43443 what is it with everyone thinking they know what NASA can and can't do

[portersb]

@RagingGeneral: It does, you can see it just in front of the centrifuge, rotating in the opposite direction.

[plainstudman]

@portersb oh yeah i see it thanks man.....arlgith lets build it....lol :) wish it was that easy hopefully it truly does get built

[RagingGeneral]

while i love this concept and would love to see it come to life, i do have one question. shouldn't they have a counter rotational weight. since it is rotating only one way isn't it going to screw up the direction of the ship while its accelerating.

[tstetler]

It's the flight deck, air locks, docking for crew vehicles like NASA's Orion, the SpaceX Dragon efc. The actual habitats are the cylinrical "sausages", which would use Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable technology. BA's tech is more impact and radiation resistant than metal structures and has already been tested in 2 spacecraft, so it's a known quantity. This tech would also make up portions of the gravity centrifuge.

[5uwkn4]

Probably radiation protection

[captainofiron]

very cool animation. hopefully this will not stay a concept animation for too long. As to the design, I have been curious why the front section is not cylindrical, seems like a waste of space making it hexagonal.