>>13623405If Musk's vision for Starship's manufacturing goes according to plan, they'll be lobbing hundreds, if not thousands of Starships at Mars. Starship's mass manufacture will make it easier and cheaper to build a new article rather than waiting two and half years to get a Starship back from Mars.
By landing a Starship on Mars, you've sent a 1000 cubic meters of habitable volume a quarter of billion miles to a place where hab space is desperately needed. It's much more valuable there than it is back on Earth. Starship will mog all other hab designs for Artemis on the Moon as it will on Mars.