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Seems like there are two different things here; launching passengers and freight, and returning passengers in comfort and without neck injuries. One could easil

Seems like there are two different things here; launching passengers and freight, and returning passengers in comfort and without neck injuries. One could easily envision a passenger only winged glider similar to the space shuttle to serve the passenger return role. Indeed, although spacex has nothing like that planned, these BFRs enable damn near anything.

bostonsre 6y ago
Maybe some gyroscopic passenger seats that stay in one position relative to the ground so that they only feel g's going in one direction instead of being rag dolls.
natch 6y ago
The atmosphere on Mars is not as thick as ours so there might be an issue with that winged glider vision. And then there is the moon...
- m4rtink 6y ago
  Both have much weaker gravity though.
  - natch 6y ago
    But that doesn’t help when you have zero atmosphere. Zero times anything is still zero. And doesn’t help enough when the atmosphere is too thin.