I don’t know who predicted it would never make it to orbit and come back and I don’t care.
Mars is ridiculous as long as we haven’t established a base on the moon.
This spacecraft will help tremendously getting to the moon and setting up a base. At the very least astronauts will spend a lot longer than the couple of days the later Apollo missions did. Supposedly we are going to construct a mini space station called the Lunar Gateway orbiting the moon in a long loop from close to much further out by tens of thousands of miles. It will not be permanently tendered as of now. Used when needed.
The money spent on its development is a pittance compared to the Space Launch System. Everything on the SLS is thrown away except the Orion Capsule. Just like Apollo 60 years earlier. Starship is revolutionary in potential at a cheaper price. If they get this to work, it may launch as much as Falcon 9 does.
If that was the case, Challenger and Columbia !!
One time each, a launch and a re-entry. How many times for Space X?
No idea, but your statement was wrong, and stoopid.
SLS has one thing Starship doesn't have. A functional rocket.
When Challenger exploded the odds of catastrophe was one in thirty. It was close to that number. After there were upgrades it went to one in a hundred. And the Columbia happened close to that. There were warnings on the side boosters in launches and NASA did nothing when Challenger happened. Supposedly, there was environmental changes that affected the foam insulation on the orange tank in later shuttle missions which may have affected the Columbia. The first two missions the tank was painted white. There are some who say if we kept painting the tank that may have kept the foam on. The paint added a couple of tons of weight though. Professionals most likely know better than I.
What was used to get Starship launched today?
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That’s a lot of explosions!
well yeah, explosions are required to launch a rocket
You are right. Currently. Unfortunately, it is expensive to launch. NASA has not had a functional rocket with humans in it since 2011 when the Shuttle ended. They keep delaying the SLS with people on it. Supposedly next year they will circle the moon. Four billion dollars a launch to start. We have had one a couple of years ago. They say it will come down to two billion dollars or so. And that includes just the Orion capsule with up to four humans to leave the earth. This system was supposed to cost around 300 million dollars a launch when started.
Are we paying for a fireworks show or real science? They sound like the same geniuses that brought you the Cybertruck.
Well to be fair, you can’t define a woman, so let’s not pretend you know what science is
Distraction! Trump is knee deep in the Epstein files. Turnabout is fair play.
