What is pending for SpaceX Starship to be a Moonship for NASA astronauts?

3 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by JPLeRouzic

2 Comments

iJohnDoe

an hour ago

Starship is 100% the wrong design. Way too many complications with Starship. So much can go wrong.

LRO is the right approach.

damnitbuilds

9 hours ago

This is a lie:

"Starship’s early developmental challenges meant that target whizzed by."

This article is not to be trusted.

My call:

It will be too much work to man-rate Starship in time and the landing will be done by a Blue Origin lander. Starship will bring it to the moon and back, along with an Orion for the launch and reentry.