> I'm getting very nervous about manned propulsive landings.
Humans will land on earth in Orion capsule not Starship. So there will only be a tanker that has to do the flip.
On the moon, there is no flip.
The Appollo didn't have a abort option is parts of the flight, unless I am misinformed.
> So I wouldn't be surprised to see the first version of that to be somewhat scaled down from the concept art.
The problem is then about how you do the integration. All the tooling and processes are designed for one size of Starship, to change the whole design just to make it smaller is unlikely to be an efficient thing to do.
Instead they could just fly part of it empty and take far less then the full 100t to the moon, rather then design a smaller version.
Humans will land on earth in Orion capsule not Starship. So there will only be a tanker that has to do the flip.
On the moon, there is no flip.
The Appollo didn't have a abort option is parts of the flight, unless I am misinformed.
> So I wouldn't be surprised to see the first version of that to be somewhat scaled down from the concept art.
The problem is then about how you do the integration. All the tooling and processes are designed for one size of Starship, to change the whole design just to make it smaller is unlikely to be an efficient thing to do.
Instead they could just fly part of it empty and take far less then the full 100t to the moon, rather then design a smaller version.