That just seems like a huge waste of money
replyEach Expendable Starship Super Heavy launched costs less than a single engine on the Artemis program.
replyEvery time you see a Starship launch what you aren't seeing is manufacturing processes corrected, issues in launch protocols and field issues resolved. All the little things that build up to make your system reliable. Do you want the doctor who has done a hundred successful surgeries, or the one who has done one or two but spent a long time in school watching videos.
The big difference is in the end, Starship gets built faster, costs much less, and can do more. It's not even close.
You can't compare costs for a rocket that doesn't work yet. It's fictional. As I said in my post, if we are comparing fictional rockets then I have a $1 rocket that can fly to Jupiter.
replyOf course you can. It wasn’t fictional when Superheavy flew back and was caught, was it? It costed real money, not fictional. What kind of mental gymnastics are you doing?
replyUntil it actually works every dollar is waste.
replyDo you think that about cancer research, or antibiotic research, or development of the JWT?
replyIt wouldn't if you were scheduled to fly on it.
replyBy the time people are scheduled to fly on it, it will have launched 100s of times and SLS wilk have launched once. Which so you want to ride on?
replyElon Musk's net worth now (sadly) near a trillion dollars... :/
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