• Kokesh@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      They want redundancy. What if Musk goes crazy in a new direction and decides to retire Dragon.

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        6 months ago

        They should have thought of redundancy for the HLS. For one, you have a space fuel depot with cryogenic boil off that has to be refilled by multiple (at least 12?) starships. And then you have a slender long full rocket stage that has to land vertically on soft and unprepared lunar regolith. For some reason, my engineering instincts are revolting just at the thoughts of it.

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      6 months ago

      They could shoot the occupants for free. Same glorious Boeing ™ results fo no money.

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      6 months ago

      They could probably get the human up there in 10 smaller cheaper launches for the same result.