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Not accurate - NASA will ask someone else to build the lunar lander under LETS contract. Starship HLS is a complex system which requires half a dozen launches,
by aero-glide2 4y ago
Not accurate - NASA will ask someone else to build the lunar lander under LETS contract. Starship HLS is a complex system which requires half a dozen launches, a simpler lander with lower payload capacity has an higher chance of being realized.
- generj 4y agoNot when the alternate lander options don’t even have enough performance to land and take off the moon if the astronauts mass is included. The lower payload requirements mean Starship HLS requires fewer fuel replenishment launches, so an apples to apples comparison makes Starship slightly less risky, especially as the other landers rely on launchers far less developed than Starship.
- panick21_ 4y agoThose other landers are pure fantasy as of right now and are not remotely financed at all. If anything so far its a purely political move so NASA can tell congress 'sure we do sort of still pretend to have multiple landers'.