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Many of the design decisions they’ve taken don’t make sense otherwise. The rocket appears to be designed for reusability in Mars. They could have followed trad
by pnpnp 3y ago
Many of the design decisions they’ve taken don’t make sense otherwise. The rocket appears to be designed for reusability in Mars.
They could have followed traditional designs and saved a lot of money.
- p_j_w 3y agoI’ll believe this when they’ve shown that they’re working on solving the problem of life support on Mars rather than a glorified taxi cab to certain death.
- pnpnp 3y agoI think the life support problem on Mars is a supply/demand problem. We haven't been able to make it yet, so why worry about developing life support systems? The initial proposals I have seen is to send robotic missions first to prove out the land/launch capability. Even if it's not SpaceX, someone else will probably follow this pattern.