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Why we're on the subject, it's also interesting that the current Starship (as previously discussed) doesn't have landing gear to reduce weight, hence the whole "catch and restack" scenario.
Not sure when they plan to test that portion. Of course I guess the LEM was never tested before it landed the first time either.
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I don't understand the whole purpose of dropping down into another gravity hole once you've got out of the one here.
Get into space. Collect all that existing garbage (mass). Go collect more mass. Stay there. In space where you spent all that capitol to get to. Dumpster diving into another sink seems futile.
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Maybe I am missing something because it seems like I am alone here, but Destin and everyone seem to be missing the point of what they are doing. Destin references the video above, but misses the first few lines.
"...[Artemis] has the task of NOT just going to the moon, to create a long term human presence on an around it, but also to prepare for ever-more-complex human missions to Mars." We can go to the moon using the mission design established by the Apollo missions, but would we be developing a process that gets us closer to going to Mars too? That design might get us to the moon in the simplest and easiest way, but it might be a dead-end-approach to missions beyond the moon. While it is less efficient to do what they are doing, it is incremental and buildable to future missions to Mars. It is laying the ground work and proving the feasibility of going to Mars. Even if we were to use the simplest, classic approach of going to the moon, we would still need to practice going to the moon the way Artemis plans to do, so we could prepare to go to Mars. In that way, isn't this best? Also, this is the way we are doing it now for the reasons I highlighted, but it doesn't have to be the only way we do things in the future. There are many governments, and there are other Space companies, and we can have other missions take us to the moon in a simple way for other missions like taking a car, bus, train or plane from one city to the next. There are different ways of doing things, but it doesn't mean one is inherently better. It really depends on the goals of the mission. What am I missing?
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My objection is that upwards of 20 launches of by a factor of two the heaviest-lift rocket ever just to get the lander ready for a single mission to the moon's surface is not good. Originally E.M. said 4-6 launches which obviously was *way* off, but even at 6, that many launches required is going to have greatly increased risk of mission failing, *and* it will be super-expensive. I'm not really a fan of the astronauts having to take a fricking elevator to get to the moons surface and back up into the crew compartment either. Or maybe it'll be a deploying escalator like in old Bugs Bunny cartoons. Overall it just seems like a terrible way to do this and I don't give it much chance of succeeding. Quote:
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Also, the window is thicker than most windows, so it should have held, but it was already cracked from sledge hammers. Here are windows surviving multiple attempts with rocks and with an arrow from a compound bow, so I have no doubt they figured the test would be fine.
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In any case, 20 launches of mega rocket for *one* landing mission, it just seems like this approach needs to be rethought... |
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I believe the LEM landing gear was tested on a rig that held it from above to simulate 1/6th gravity. Or maybe I'm getting confused with the flight trainer.
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The rationale is probably to fund development of a domestic heavy launch industry and feel like they are getting their money's worth.
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SpaceX has Starlink and other private and government entities with plans to go to space. There may be plans to mine resources in space, besides going to Mars. Destin et. al. is thinking five years ahead, but not fifteen, fifty or hundreds of years ahead, but it seems like there are larger and loftier goals that dictate why NASA and SpaceX is doing what they are doing.
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i'm guessing they'll add them on later. I misspoke as well, it's the booster that doesn't have landing legs and is designed to be snagged out of the air.
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