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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday November 20 2023, @10:46PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday November 20 2023, @10:46PM (#1333664) Journal

    Without SpaceX, I doubt we'd have any hope for returning to the Moon in the next decade or two. Certainly not more than one or two trips and done. With SpaceX, reusable rockets, and Starship (assuming they're successful) we could see humans on the Moon by 2030 or maybe a bit later. It would be epic to see humans going to the Moon and maybe even Mars in my life time.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by turgid on Thursday November 23 2023, @10:05PM (1 child)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 23 2023, @10:05PM (#1333986) Journal

    Elon Musk is unhinged, and he is not a nice man to work for. But to give him his due, he has put a large boot up the backsides of many industries. He has taken the last 70 years of space technology, for example, and refined it, with some government subsidies, to make it more of a commercial operation.

    On his own, I don't think he'll see us to the Moon or Mars. He's making quite a mess of Starship and he hasn't got a proper solution to the problem of radiation on a Mars trip.

    He is motivated, and he is showing everyone else what you can achieve if you cast off the old cobwebs, which is good. I think he's going to run out of money before he gets anywhere near boots on Mars, though.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday November 27 2023, @02:38PM

      by Freeman (732) on Monday November 27 2023, @02:38PM (#1334339) Journal

      I think he's going to run out of money before he gets anywhere near boots on Mars, though.

      I figure a couple more X/Twitters and that should do it.

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