/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12167875
I feel like we are in an even better timeline. A small little dragon propulsively landing on Mars wouldn't be the best bet for colonization. Starship (even the smaller 9m variant compared to the proposed BFR) opens up so many more options- and will only get bigger in size as they perfect it

>>12123702
Oooh good point. To be fair it seems Jim has slowly been phasing out SLS in a ship of thesus kind of way, favoring Falcon Heavy to deliver cargo (see ya SLS), launch gateway pieces (bye SLS), lander proposal (haha not today Boeing), etc. This is just a theory of mine... but I'm pretty sure Jim only selected Starship for artemis to BTFO of boeing. He will most likely select the other two, but he also knows Elon is making Starship either way so he gave them money to get on good terms and will always have the option to do another round of lander selectors should Artemis continue its goal way into the future.

To sum up, Jim is almost certainly fucking sick of SLS and is trying to give contracts to SpaceX wherever possible, and he knows Starship will be a viable option in the future should it not get selected as an initial lander

>>11927628
>>11927641
Lmao I mean to be fair, imagine walking into the room and pitching it like
>What if instead of landing like a plane, we take off the wings and land it ass-first on landing legs
They would have called you a retard and told you to get out

>>11758910
For this sake, let's say the fins don't generate lift. Just like Starship.