SpaceX Starship Taking over for NASA Moon Rocket?

The SLS was designed to be a jobs program for all of the Shuttle contractors. It successfully supplied money to those contractors. Can it fly to low lunar orbit, land, and return to earth like Apollo. No, it does not have enough mass to lunar orbit or enough delta V even to get home from low lunar orbit. It is a successful job program.

I have a strong feeling that SpaceX is way ahead of NASA, and will land a man on the moon before NASA. It certainly appears that their EVA suits are farther along than NASA's

The best part is no part. They need to build a dedicated second stage for starship that is a section of a space station with an inflatable outer shell. A huge inflatable outer shell. With all of the equipment hidden under the metal skin. Once in orbit the metal skin unlocks and the habitat inflates around the fuel tanks. Make it so it can be orbitally refueled. It’s got engines and fuel tanks, solar panels and everything built in that it needs. Other equipment can be brought up if necessary. It never comes down, nothing is wasted. And multiple sections can be joined together to create a spin stabilized station that can be used for all sorts of things.

Thank you, a great synopsis as always. Don't forget to like it`s free.

I thought Artemis was $4 billion per launch.

I love how all these channels talk about Starship as if it's already a stable and well established rocket system while it's still in prototype.

Thanks for the video. Cool hat! I know I'm late to the comments but one thought about Artemis starship vs dear moon: for Artemis SpaceX not only needs the starship and the whole tanker logistics to be worked out, they also need to develop specific things for this program such as docking with the Orion capsule for crew transfer and development of the crew lift for use on the moon itself. They will probably also need to test land on the moon before going there with crew. If they would prioritize dear moon over these things then I would understand if Nasa were less than amused. So I think it is not only the admittedly very real question of prestige but also the question of priorities that may create some problem for dear moon for the next years...

Been a Space nut since Gemini got to see the third launch of Starship

Great hat!

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In Musk's he had a mockup of the HLS with stairs. Did anyone get any footage of the the inside? Kida a tease in a sense. The ship cone was allot bigger than the current. Will this happen on version 2? What are your thoughts? He is very open with his development, but seeing inside would be a game changer. Along with the fact that we are that much closer. "just show us the tip," lol, would have been better than his speech. Thanks for a great episode. - Will

Great overview, and YES SLS is too expensive, but it's been round the moon and that's is the argument that NASA will use to maintain their view that nothing else has been proved yet, so Starship will have to prove itself in Space and round the moon before NASA will accept it as an equal player, only then will NASA climb down and will have to reduce the billions of the cost of SLS. Best regards from UK London. Ps, we will have a Launch System in Shetland shortly...

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The public funds SpaceX also. Let's see what we might get from SpaceX, Starlink connectivity, several people are signed up and approved for a trip to the moon, eventually Mars. NASA has given us weather satellites, watched a few guys go to the moon, some cool star pictures. Oh, and I don't have to buy Starlink if I don't want to.

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space x is the future

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Since NASA has gone commercial crew program and fixed fee contracts, they're now just project managers with strict guidelines to be followed by any contractor they award tax dollars to. As such, one of the unexpected side effects of this new role in space exploration is that Congress is very aggressively limiting the amount of $$ NASA is budgeted. In lieu of this change, the government will continue to expect private industry to bear the costs of space exploration and colonization of the moon and Mars. Private companies will only provide services for as long as it is profitable for them.

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