/sci/ - Science & Math

I've been thinking about this. Consider how much money HLS will cost to build. Would it not make sense to just modify tanker Starships and use them as simulators for the actual mission to save money and time? Imagine, for instance, they have to send three Starships to the moon because they keep running into problems. Just hypothetically. Imagine each time they did that, SpaceX was forced to build a brand new HLS to spec from scratch. That seems like an absurd time and financial investment.