American McPastors aren't a priestly class. They are merchants. They even dress like businessmen!
Notice that their vice isn't lying, it's grifting.
If SpaceX Starship had a simpler expendable upper stage (like the Falcon 9), while using its reusable V1 booster, it can fly an Apollo manned Moon mission every month. If someone can build an Apollo CSM and LEM every month that is.
If Starship was fully expendable in both stages, it would be carrying 400+ metric tons to orbit.
But it's not for flags and footprints, so the difficult testing program for full reusability is pursued instead.
@StarProphet I think a lot of people don't appreciate how impressive it is to have a new upper stage ready every two days. That is a truly insane production rate, especially considering that each upper stage engine needs to go through testing.
Elon's SpaceX Falcon 9 & Crew Dragon:
Axiom-4 private astronauts, from left to right:
Tibor Kapu, mission specialist 🇭🇺
Shubhanshu Shukla, pilot 🇮🇳
Peggy Whitson, commander. Former NASA :nasa: astronaut who has spent more time in space than any other American 🇺🇸
Sławosz Uznański, mission specialist 🇵🇱
They are flying to the ISS on a brand new Crew Dragon (the 5th one built). They will be giving it a new name.
#Space #SpaceX #Falcon9 #CrewDragon #ISS #Axiom #Ax4 #Starship #ElonMusk
The only limit to Falcon 9's flight rate (avg every 2.3 days) is Falcon 9's expendable upper stage. The booster and fairings are reusable.
But when you have both stages of an orbital rocket being reusable, you can do daily orbital launches.
Imagine what becomes possible if you can launch Saturn V sized payloads every day, instead of once every few years.
What Elon Musk is building, will make WWII era military technology obsolete.
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