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I agree with everything... but you can’t compare with starship... it hasn’t flown past 12km yet (admittedly neither has sls). There is a severe lack of heavy l

• bryanlarsen 6y ago
  We don't lack for heavy lift -- we have Delta IV Heavy and Falcon Heavy and will soon also have New Glenn and Vulcan. We lack for super heavy lift, but we've been lacking for that since Saturn V was retired. Some people sometimes count Shuttle as super-heavy, but they cheat by including the Shuttle mass as part of the lift mass. SLS as is isn't super-heavy either, it requires the planned but un-funded Exploration Upper Stage for that, which is likely never going to get funded. Starship is super-heavy lift class.