Starship feels like the ultimate engineering gamble, so many moving parts (literally) that getting it right might be as hard as building the habitats it’s meant to launch.
On nitrogen, I keep wondering: if in-space manufacturing matured, couldn’t we generate atmosphere by cracking water for oxygen and synthesizing nitrogen analogues through hydrogen-based pathways? Or is Earth’s air mix so specific that importing nitrogen stays unavoidable?
On nitrogen, I keep wondering: if in-space manufacturing matured, couldn’t we generate atmosphere by cracking water for oxygen and synthesizing nitrogen analogues through hydrogen-based pathways? Or is Earth’s air mix so specific that importing nitrogen stays unavoidable?