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Weird take since NASA's Artemis page on landing humans on the Moon opens with a giant rendering of Starship on the Moon[1] and their plan[2] for getting to the
by themgt 4y ago
Weird take since NASA's Artemis page on landing humans on the Moon opens with a giant rendering of Starship on the Moon[1] and their plan[2] for getting to the Moon involves ~6-8 Starship launches plus orbital refueling against 1 SLS launch. So NASA's Artemis program leadership doesn't seem to assess that Starship is "some intangible futurist idea" that won't work anytime soon due to engines/fuel/etc.
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/content/about-human-landing-systems-development https://www.nasa.gov/content/about-human-landing-systems-dev...
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Artemis_III_CONOPS.svg/800px-Artemis_III_CONOPS.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Ar...