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>>16372687
>The only proposed modification for Starship’s fifth flight is a marginal change in the splashdown location of the hot-stage
So...no Mechazilla snatch in the works, I take it?

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>>16295145
Simply put, it's a multi-trillion dollar prestige project that even the US doesn't need at the moment. There's nothing "on" Mars, it's just a frozen desert at the bottom of a gravity well, so all it would be is the most expensive selfie photo in human history when even the Chinese have landed rovers that can do this. All the accessible wealth in the solar system is scattered around in asteroids and comets.

Artemis is an exact match for mankind's capabilities at the moment...a lunar base serviced by a lunar space station that will test all the equipment needed for these future ambitions.

>>16295249
Musk likes to talk big to make his fans dream bigger, and it's worked up to the point that he actually made that colossal Super Heavy booster work, but the endeavor itself is daunting af. Even he's still catching up to Artemis's requirements (picrel).

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>>16295263
Gay sex gives you schizophrenia.

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>>16228911
Okay, removing that one off the checklist...the HLS never returns (of course) and the consensus seems to be that the tanker will be expendable. Any vertical landing is part of the re-usable variant and not critical to Artemis III.

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