> So why did Elon sell Tesla
Elon didn't sell Tesla. He owns 20-30% of it. Not sure where you got that. And Tesla has nothing to do with Starship.
> Starship is so close to the Moon and the Mars which his own words claim will create muiltiples of the earths value
And he owns ~48% of SpaceX which will reap a lot of the benefits from this.
> If you introduce these advantages Apollo is not 20x more expensive its actually much closer with todays Starship cost. Starship with all these modern advantages should have been on the Moon a long time ago.
That's a lot of pure speculation. Apollo was difficult and expensive due to a lot of reasons. But it was also a flags and footprints mission and never aimed at permanent settlement. Throwing away a rocket as complex as the Saturn V with every flight makes it absurdly expensive if you want to large amounts of mass into orbit.
> Starship with all these modern advantages should have been on the Moon a long time ago.
"should have been on the Moon a long time ago" - based on what? Nobody has developed a fully reusable launch vehicle yet - and Starship is the closest yet (as demonstrated by the multiple flights/recoveries so far). That is the path to cheap, sustainable access to space. Putting arbitrary deadlines on such projects from the sidelines is absurd.
Elon didn't sell Tesla. He owns 20-30% of it. Not sure where you got that. And Tesla has nothing to do with Starship.
> Starship is so close to the Moon and the Mars which his own words claim will create muiltiples of the earths value
And he owns ~48% of SpaceX which will reap a lot of the benefits from this.
> If you introduce these advantages Apollo is not 20x more expensive its actually much closer with todays Starship cost. Starship with all these modern advantages should have been on the Moon a long time ago.
That's a lot of pure speculation. Apollo was difficult and expensive due to a lot of reasons. But it was also a flags and footprints mission and never aimed at permanent settlement. Throwing away a rocket as complex as the Saturn V with every flight makes it absurdly expensive if you want to large amounts of mass into orbit.
> Starship with all these modern advantages should have been on the Moon a long time ago.
"should have been on the Moon a long time ago" - based on what? Nobody has developed a fully reusable launch vehicle yet - and Starship is the closest yet (as demonstrated by the multiple flights/recoveries so far). That is the path to cheap, sustainable access to space. Putting arbitrary deadlines on such projects from the sidelines is absurd.