• 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.