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Anyone know what would be the oppprtubity cost they're foregoing of just putting fuel, oxygen up there? Would it be expensive to retrieve it in orbit?
by wallace_f 9y ago
Anyone know what would be the oppprtubity cost they're foregoing of just putting fuel, oxygen up there? Would it be expensive to retrieve it in orbit?
- kijin 9y agoYou really, really don't want to put fuel and oxidizer where they don't belong. If you run fuel lines to the cargo compartment and something goes wrong with the mission halfway to Mars, it would be much more difficult to figure out whether the incident was caused by a fault in the rocket's design or by the one-off modifications.
- chossenger 9y agoI may be reading this wrong, but I thought he meant as spare resources for once we do get to Mars, not as extra fuel for the rocket itself.
- wallace_f 9y agoThat is exactly what I meant