Mainstream news coverage of Starship events

[meekGee]

I'd love to verify the "analysis" (purely technical I'm sure) behind

it will have to start with the SLS rocket

Of course it is purely political. NASA wouldn't even be required to go to the moon if China hadn't announced intention to go there. They could have found some other use for SLS.

This kind of BS makes me wish they'll just have their way.

SpaceX will do their thing, and by the by will find customers for lunar non-HLS customers. It'll happen faster and be better.

BO will be forced to chart their own course which will be good for them.

Meanwhile SLS will continue to suck at its own pace, but at least won't interfere.

The only problem with this scenario is the last bit - they WILL interfere, to avoid the humiliation and possible loss of funding.

Sigh.  How I hate politics.

[thespacecow]

"Not done the analysis to land a massive Starship on the Moon".

- The "analysis" is called doing it multiple times with uncrewed ships until you see if it is feasible. Ground-truth data in a hardware-rich program: the SpaceX way.

I'm not sure I'd agree with this way of putting it.

I'm 100% sure both SpaceX and NASA has done tons of analysis on the landing. In fact we know NASA did an analysis on all the toppled over lunar landers and shared that result with SpaceX and Blue Origin, that's just what's in the public, pretty sure much more is done behind closed doors. I think Green can find this out easily if he ask around, he's not being honest here.

The uncrewed landing test is not the usual "excitement guaranteed" SpaceX style test, it's a NASA test, similar to DM-1, the expectation is the test will be successful. I think SpaceX understands this very well and will do everything they can to make it a success.

[Oersted]

BO and SpaceX should absolutely do their own things and go their own ways. What a huge privilege for the US to have the two richest guys in the country funding competing space programmes. That competition is a huge boon to the country and practically guarantees US space dominance for the next couple of decades, maybe more. An enviable position to be in.   

[RedLineTrain]

BO and SpaceX should absolutely do their own things and go their own ways. What a huge privilege for the US to have the two richest guys in the country funding competing space programmes. That competition is a huge boon to the country and practically guarantees US space dominance for the next couple of decades, maybe more. An enviable position to be in.

Bezos needs to sell his yachts.  For the country.