• Kokesh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They want redundancy. What if Musk goes crazy in a new direction and decides to retire Dragon.

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        1 year ago

        They should have thought of redundancy for the HLS. For one, you have a space fuel depot with cryogenic boil off that has to be refilled by multiple (at least 12?) starships. And then you have a slender long full rocket stage that has to land vertically on soft and unprepared lunar regolith. For some reason, my engineering instincts are revolting just at the thoughts of it.