Hi TRF colleagues,
Now that on its third attempt SpaceX Starship failed again to achieve all its mission objectives, we should refocus on the central and driving goal. That goal — the ultimate objective — is colonizing Luna. The United States is funding SpaceX to construct unnecessarily complex spacecraft.
From Luna, with its much weaker gravitational pull and its lack of atmosphere, spacecraft can much more easily take off and land than they can from Earth. From Luna, therefore, achieving reusability is easier.
Get to Luna as quickly and simply as possible, begin its irreversible colonization, and make it the base of operations. Then, from that base, we can worry about constructing and flying reusable spacecraft.
Stanley
Now that on its third attempt SpaceX Starship failed again to achieve all its mission objectives, we should refocus on the central and driving goal. That goal — the ultimate objective — is colonizing Luna. The United States is funding SpaceX to construct unnecessarily complex spacecraft.
From Luna, with its much weaker gravitational pull and its lack of atmosphere, spacecraft can much more easily take off and land than they can from Earth. From Luna, therefore, achieving reusability is easier.
Get to Luna as quickly and simply as possible, begin its irreversible colonization, and make it the base of operations. Then, from that base, we can worry about constructing and flying reusable spacecraft.
Stanley