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>>12567542
Honestly the more I read about the Dynetics lander the less I like it. It can only hold 2 people for 1 week or 4 people for a few days. It also lacks an airlock and requires the cabin to depressurize on every EVA.

Starship is neat but it requires at least a dozen tanker flights maybe more for every lunar sortie. It also needs hundreds of tons of propellant to be transferred, which has yet to be demonstrated. However it’s great that it has insane capability and landing just one on the surface gives more room than the entire ISS.

National Team’s Lander is definitely the most safe bet. It only needs 3 expendable launch vehicles to be assembled, and it does not need dozens of flights per sortie (looking at you Starship). It’s only partially expendable, which is not as bad as people talk about on here. Even better, the descent stage could be refueled with Hydrolox from the surface and function with a “bare” ascent stage as a 100% reusable lunar lander.

If I was NASA I’d select the national team lander just because it’s “safe” as an investment, but also fund Starship because 1) It’s fucking huge and 2) SpaceX is going to land on the moon later anyways, so why not help them out a bit.