As an Australian, may I use an American turn of phrase I've heard used for a different reason, "Thank you for your service." The implications of what you've acheived...seriously, thank you. You guys are paving the uphill road.

I feel like I just watched the most expensive episode of shark tank ever

Everyone calling out this guy for being 'too ambitious'----are too comfortable where we are today. We have lost our way and people like this are what we need to awaken innovation and exploration, so that our species can thrive. Otherwise, we will continue pushing our planet to the limits with no plan B.

Man you made a grown up guy cry. It was a childhood dream to visit space. God bless you for success

I don’t think people understand that these types of ideas and plans are a necessity for the survival of our species. We don’t actually have a choice if we want to continue, humans MUST become a multi planet species.

Can't fault the ambition, but the timeline is Elon level optimistic.

I love the optimism! That's what humanity needs.

I just love the fact that someone is putting forth effort to go forward. Time is short overall, but especially when it comes to me and stagnant thinking people. Just the amount of things that can take us out is mind blowing without even factoring in our damn selves. I only hope that this isn't what incentivizes the bad actors of this world to destroy it even more. I worry about those who won't be able to leave... IJS

This man really makes me feel like going to college to get my engineering degree just to try to get hired to this company

The real issue here is not space and the dangers of space, but rather the skill set and knowledge to maintain the sustainability of these projects.

This is EACTLY what we need. This would be the start of how we could start building Starships in SPACE and not be limited to what can be built on earth.

Please call the little transporter the StarBug in honour of Red Dwarf! Kat, Lister and Rimmer would love this!

If this is real, and I don't mean fake, this is a revolutionary and innovative way to construct something in space. Wow, hats off!

Odo can run security, and Quark can have his own bar. Live long and prosper, and may the Schwartz be with you. 🚀

Let’s build one for Venus and Mars before we try to land men on Mars. This way we have the secure technology to keep humans alive in Space for long periods.

How does the Torus remove itself to build the last section? Absolutely love the vision, can't wait to see it a reality!

Excuse me for being skeptical, but I've been seeing these stations promised since 1968. I have no doubt they CAN be built, the method isn't all that different in theory than building the Saint Louis Arch. Build a section, and put sections together. I want to see this built certainly no later than 2029. It appears to be using practical designs borrowed from constructions as diverse as the Arch and tunnel construction. I'm sure the principles are sound. The question comes in when trying to fund it. The more that can be done the more quickly, the more investment will follow, but you have to get the first one made. I'd like to see both Bezos and Musk support this endeavor, but even if you only get the backing of the Arab Emirates, I want it to get built. I can hope to see such a station completed by my 70th birthday in 2031. I'd certainly like to see us go from the moonshot to orbital stations with artificial gravity before I'm gone. But that's a future I have been promised my whole life, and everyone has always said we were within ten years of achieving it. So excuse me for being skeptical. It's hard tp keep building hope and having it crushed.

I think space tourism is great but would love to see it designed to allow people to live there on a permanent basis. This is the way we should move to space and with these built further and further from our earth we can use them as stepping stones to the universe. Now hopefully we will see this in the near future.

Big space craft is great yet so close. You'll are smart & well good Luck in that thing you'll need it for sure. Yet don't stop trying or believing.

That Spacecraft design is so cool looking, I'm a SciFy modeler and I think I'll try to scratch build a model of that thing :)

If Gateway Spaceport reaches fruition it will become the industry standard for attaining rotation induced gravity. No need to build larger diameter units bc the Tori can be center linked by corridor tubes ( envision a dual hub pickup with the tires representing Tori ). There could be any number of linked Tori, separated by Kilometer wide space sleds that that can be conjoined to form solar array configurations several Kilometers in length.

this sounds almost too good to be true. To visit space as a tourist is one of my biggest desires in life. Seeing that is already happening while I‘m still in my 20‘s is amazing and gives me a lot hope for our species !

I love his optimism. We need more folks like this in the world

Cool and sound ideas as previously seen from Gateway. However, the lack of indepth information, seen as they have been around for 10 years now, is troubling. Where is the hardware? Where are the cost projections of the "Tree" cargo pods which are sending the panel segments up with starships? Design and cost of the "Hatship class pods"? Design and cost of the prefabricated panels? Design and cost of the welding machines? Design and cost of Sargon construction segments? Estimated cost of a space station? How will the fully welded station be pressurized? How with the pressurized station be leak tested? How is the funding situation right now? ... Do you have anything but flashy youtube vids? Suggestions from my side: 1st: Show a design for the panels and the sargon segments, including costs 2nd: Make a prototype square builder (4 segments instead of 32) and build prototypes: single 1x2 panel line, 2x2 panel squares, square "circles" of boxes, a full tube rectangular cross sections... down here on Earth Heck, i would consider a 3D printed plastic Sargon with some hot glue guns for "welding" plastic panels a step forward! other suggestions: - Build the panels in double layers (each panel effectively being a flattened cube/a parallelepiped) with an integrated sensor package inside. If the outer or inner panel wall is punctured (from space debries or a clumsy station dweller) sensors will be warning you of a panel failure, but it is not necessarily a life threatening situation. The panels can also be filled with some material for added "bulletproofness" (woven kevlar-like materials)

Thank you for your innovative visions of the possible. I probably won't be alive to see this come to fruition, but I have followed developments for over 73 years. Make it happen.

Yes , Mr. Musk and Mr. Bests and other Space Visionaries, let's MAKE IT SO ! Let's start moving on this incredible project NOW !

Finally !!! I've been waiting decade's & I'm sure others feel the same way !!! Thank you !!!😘💖 Will be sharing!!!! #SharingIsCaring❤

This is the direction we need to go

If I've learnt anything in construction, It's that NOTHING ever goes exactly like it's planned, and that's under normal conditions here on Earth. Imagine building this, in space and trying to meet your deadlines.

According to my calculations: total surface area for the outer ring is 365,672.84m^2 volume=18,283.64 m^3 or 1,828,364 cm^3 2219 aluminum alloy = 2.84 g/cm^3 totaling in 519,255.43 Kg or 572.38 tonnes starship cargo volume = 1,144.53 m^3 starship cargo weight capacity = 150 tonnes 16 trips by volume not including the machine and your volume is so high that you'd fill the ship before reaching optimum volume/weight. So I'd recommend shipping the panels and the machine to save money :)

If all this is possible right now, why are we not all working together to reach a common goal. What's holding us back. Are Space X and Gateway working together, and if not, why not? Remember, united we stand, divided we fall. if we want to lead in the Space race, we need to work together.

Finally, an inspirational space station. Plus one that incorporates artifical gravity. This should be our next space station!

There is a very good reason to use a segmented design; in the event of a collision or structural failure, airlocks can be sealed, saving inhabitants.

This is exactly the sort of thinking and engineering we need to get off this rock. Tunnel boring machines were considered crazy and impossible, until one was built. Diff environment, bigger challenges, greater danger but the same idea. Excellent

I loved this video. Yes, the ambition is infectious, and that's what's needed for commercial space development. First toruses then ships and cylinders. Gateway facilities are launch points for asteroid and planetary colonies. The dawn of the 22nd century could be far more optimistic than the slow decay that has plagued the dawn of the 21st. I hope all of us dreamers can see his futuristic vision as I do. Commercial space infrastructure can save this planet in ways that social welfare never could. His goals are an epiphany that breeds hope for humanity. We are destined to become the first interplanetary species!

These are great ideas and presented well, but a few questions do occur : 1. How low would a seat cost at lowest price predictions ? 2. Have there been plans to protect against small meteors like up to the size of a bowling ball ? 3. Will the spaceport be able to travel by itself to its final stationary position and move out of the way to avoid large passing space rocks ? These are the first questions I thought of. There's probably a lot more from other followers .

Thank you for sharing your vision And yes what an exciting time to be alive.

Love the confidence and ambition, the future needs these commodities.

We need visionaries like this to make the future a reality. A genius with practical applications. This is true American innovation. Go for it!

Ambition drives innovation, innovation drives creativity, and creativity drives effort, and finally effort drives success. This generation needs to understand how space is important. We are too comfortable with being average.

Can't wait to see your company's thought on when the first O'Neill cylinder stations will be built.

Quite a vision. I would love to see it happen.

Not saying this is impossible but it’ll be a damn fun challenge. I’d absolutely love to be part of that team.

Having a factory in space like in star trek to assemble stuff will be amazing

Very ambitious design. The production of a ground-based sample section would be very convincible by demonstrating the welding technique and the strength of the structure.

Are there plans to test a smaller prototype? How would you power the electron beam welders? I like the idea but it needs to be proven first then scaled up.

These designs are awesome, keep making them you legend.

Can you see the building of the space stations and getting them transported to other major planets in our solar system? WOW! This is the foresight we need at NASA!

One huge and crucial design flaw; You cannot rely on one giant pressurised hull. It has to be lots of smaller compartments with sealed door in between!!! Imagine the catastrophe of a debris hitting and the whole hull gets de-pressurised! It must be built in sections.

I have high hopes for this, and will be watching with great interest

It is with profound visionaries like this that the future of humanity are counting on for our survival and carrying our species out into our galaxy and perhaps beyond to discover other life forms and make awesome new discoveries !

This video should be the most trending video in the world.

really cool project and concepts. here we can definitely imagine an exciting future! very well done!

Wonderful, I just hope we can find a way to work together long enough to get this done!

I understand your concept and it is quite viable; I have a couple of suggestions that may help: Build a modular station as a jumping off point. Use said modular station as a dock and storage for materials. design a mining ship that is remotely monitored and controlled by a small team and then build a dozen or so of them. The trip to the asteroid belt is a while on its own and you may need a refueling station at least once, maybe twice, along the path, depending on how much burn time is needed. Near the belt have a refining yard that will be manned by the operators of the miners and another dozen or so personnel. to operate the refineries and the station itself. Use the mined materials to build and shape the panels, sending back a load at a time to the dock & storage location. It will cost you less in the long run to do it this way than to keep sending materials from the surface. As a bonus, any excess/unused material can be sold off and lowered into orbit. Ice can also be extracted to make at least 3 required items: Water, oxygen, and hydrogen. The hydrogen can have multiple uses, not the least of which would be fuel for the thrusters on the ships and to power hydrogen power plants to help offset solar power. The hydrogen power plants would also be able to run induction furnaces for refining the minerals in the asteroid belt. Creating a hydroponics system will help scrub out the CO2 and provide vegetable foods. Raising animals such as rabbits and fowl will also provide non-veg protein which will be required to help maintain muscle mass. The human and animal waste can be dehydrated and chopped up to become a basis for fertilizer for said hydroponics system. The additional animal products from the rabbits (fur, bone) and fowl (eggs, feathers, bone), will also be useful to those above systems. Your biggest issues would be entertainment and ensuring positioning. The latter is easy enough if beacons are placed at key points to help guide astro-navigation. Just the way i would approach the situation.

An appealing idea but a few questions off the top of my head. How do you close out the torus (requires some disassembly of the machine making it)? The illustrated machine would not be able to do it because the unattached side is many metres of straight machine tangential to the torus so it would interfere with the oldest section when trying to add the last few sections. How durable/what is the expected lifespan? What is the mass of the torus and the method of manoeuvre for raising the orbit as it declines, and for collision avoidance? What is the expected rate of meteorite/debris impact and what systems are in place to mitigate or prevent losses causes by same? What reserves of supplies (air, water at least) would be necessary for certified safety? Apart from space tourism, what use is this form of space station? It is not zero-g so has no manufacturing advantages over production on earth unless dedicated, non-rotating tori are built. But a dedicated, non-rotating sphere would be a safer and more efficient use of materials for zero-g manufacture. I'll stop there.

I've said for years that dedication to expanding into space would be an economy boon for the entire planet. Even if a company is not directly involved in the space realm, they can support and cater to those who are. Affordability is key. You can have a veratine but it will still need supplies to manufacture orbital stations. Those supplies will have to come from Earth or viable asteroid mining. My lifetime seems a great deal shorter than the reality of this / these projects becoming a reality by 2030.

The only things holding back the "Great Space Race" are it becoming economically viable/profitable and reduction in regulations and opening the doors and saying. "Go get em!" If this works as promised, that's one anchor cut loose. Hell Yeah! I'll dare to be optimistic.

Thank God somebody's finally knew when I sent this space Maybe we can start cleaning up our mess out there

Wow! Very ambitious. Good luck! God speed. 🚀🙏🏼

John , you come up with the most awesome designs to work in space. definitely I'll be following every move you make thanks for making our dreams come true.

Forgetting the basic engineering rule. Plot out your most reasonable timeline to completion. Then multiply that by 4 for all the unexpected disasters, problems and general unplanned for bits that turned out to be totally necessary but wasn't really inked out in the initial design. "Know all those load bearing struts that make up part of the core structure... yeah, turns out the alloy wasn't mixed right due to a mis-communication with the fabricator. What we put together will have to be taken apart and redone." That sort of thing always happens on a major new project.

All I can say is… this needs to be done!!!

This is great thinking, we are going to have to seriously start considering how to build very large stations like this. Maybe not in our immediate future but maybe a hundred years away as we move past Mars.

I always see big open spaces In these ship designs and think that surely they'd have to be many separated zones to minimise damage/loss of life in the event of a collision from debris meteors etc

And finally some actual promising looking future for space

You're Nikola Tesla of the space industry. A true innovator who greatly helps humanity.

This is an incredible vision and I can’t wait to see this incredible machine start pumping out space stations and spaceports!

Thats really cool , i love it , and while the current old space station was a good learning device , building something big like this is the only way forward imo. To make progress in building more space habs , you need to have plenty of space move around , live and work , and you need more worker bees . The construction idea is brilliant .

i love the video, learned alot thank you

If anyone is serious about Mars, this is by far the first step. Large stations in near orbit, then around Mars, only then once you have some type of safety net for the settlers/spacemen/cannon fodder would that type of thing make any sense. You need serious infrastructure. The biggest issue I see would be getting the raw materials; if you can solve that I could see this happening.

Wow, this is some next level stuff. Great ambitions, I hope they become realized.

I waited until orbital construction made a truss-a-lator ended up buying stock at almost double the initial offering. Which makes it all the more tempting to buy Gatewayspaceport stock now!

thank you great work

Star Trek here we come, engage, going where no man has gone before

I love this. I think it’s a fantastic solution. I also tend to agree with the timeline if its approached with the same level of gusto as Space X applies. I also think in the long term the manufacturing of space ports will occur in the Mars orbit not Earths. The level of energy/effort differential between escaping Mars orbit vs Earth is huge. Also a lower terrestrial “normal” gravity value means there’s a lower amount of energy to achieve that level in artificial environments.

I always dreamed of making habitable stations like this but instead have them underwater or underground, of course they would need to be more structurally sound for the weight on them..

This is AWESOME!!!!!

Great video I've learned enough from watching this repeatedly, I'm seeing the connections with the ancient world and however I'm impressed with the goals here and the manner and timing in which it is being completed.

If this is real I will sign up to work in space.

This is great stuff, and as an engineer, I think very doable and ingenious conceptually. I would like to hear how you plan on delivering and installing systems like life support and power, atmosphere, and water. I would very much like you to succeed.

This guy really needs to do a livestream with Isaac Arthur and Lex Fridman. Would really get the word out

This has been illuminating.

Absolutely incredible your confidence in this makes it seem like this can happen tomorrow.

MAN! You are my HERO. I wish you all the luck and recourses you need to get this done. I'm just a simple citizen of Earth and if I had all the funding you need, I would had it all over to you. So if i ever come into large sums of money, you will here from me, even I do not get to go myself, I would be so proud to just see it done and know that my young daughters have the opportunity to go, live or even work with you. God speed on this and all future endeavors. - A very proud citizen of Earth and supporter of you and Gateway Spaceport LLC. Thank you for this and all your videos.

Great project. Can we please build this right now!

This is amazing!

The sooner this is built the better...

Simply amazing. VERA Stations 💫

Looks great

Build a Taurus with 2ft (or more) diameter tubes. insert 6 biospheres equidistant apart in line. Use runner sleds like the mechanics use to move between biospheres. Start with Labs , rent space for experiments and mining. When the station becomes profitable, replace sections of the tubes and add more spheres inline until the whole structure can be welded together, keeping the biospheres separate in case of breaches. The construction tubes might also be rocket sections carried into space.

It would be fascinating to get a general idea of the cost of the first one.

Does any of your "claims" being tested and proven ??

It looks like the private industry will be able to do in a short time what everyone thought incompetent governments would do over decades. The technology is finally coming together to create low cost practical means to get into space. Enterprise on a scale the governments can't imagine.

Thank you

This really is the way to do it and I wish you success. I wish I could send some of my tax dollars towards you. Many have thought about this, myself included, and I'd love to see things keep moving this way. Related technologies would truly benefit how we build on Earth.

I have sort of armature skills in Sketchup as well as Blender, and most of it is creating interesting curved geometry and structures, including the torus. I would love to work on some interior stuff if possible...

Looking forward to a torus building Sargon and construction materials being lifted to orbit by Starship asap

finally I found the video that will make me fall asleep. no kidding tho this guy's a real genius. love the ideas!

a vessel of this size would be affected quite substantially be tidal forces which would have an impact on the construction phase significantly.