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Now let us look to the hit movie The Martian. Where many noted science fags were paid well to consult. Here is the Hermes mothership used to transit the crew and supplies between Mars and Earth. A very sensible depiction of what a real crew would want and need on the 7 month trip. It's said the Hermes took 10 years of work and launches to build, a single space craft for a very small crew.

Dr Space Nigger even said this about the fictional craft.
> in the universe of The Martian, it is "the most complex and expensive object ever built"

It's a very well researched idea of what we could currently do at max capacity for a decade. One awesome but small crew mission to a planet next door. It's still just a novelty to 99.99% of humanity.

We humans can build MASSIVE ships and stations in the Earth-Luna orbits and launch them deeper into space with ease. Once the people and base materials are off the Earth and in orbit the rest is trivial. So it is that our main, and only true issue, is the inability to lift literal train sized loads of steel, water, and even dirt into space.

What we need is a train to fucking space!

https://youtu.be/HQhmsDkZhQA