>>11516836>5SpaceX puts a Starship onto the Moon for demonstration purposes, because even though NASA is getting on board with buying Starship flights, they're just too slow
>10Starships are doing a full round trips to the Moon's surface and back multiple times per year (once every month or two) delivering serious amounts of cargo (mostly metal struts, kevlar bags and solar panels), SLS has been 'retired' at this point and all other currently flying launch vehicles are on life support. NASA has lost all of the funding that had been supplied to make Orion and SLS happen, and yet they're accomplishing far more in human and unmanned spaceflight on a smaller budget due to the high frequency high capacity low cost launch system at their fingertips. Shelby has committed suicide.
>20Several Moon bases exist, in various geologically different locations across the Moon, and the closest few are having new railroads installed to connect them. Moon bases are all still mostly focused on science by far, but a good fraction of that science has been prospecting for useful mineral deposits, and a moderate amount of simple resource extraction and refinement is taking place (they're making steel in order to make rails for the railroads.
Mars missions are now underway, after several unmanned Starship landings after the past few sinodes to deliver an excess of cargo. A base capable of refueling two or three Starships per sinode is nearly complete.
>50Moon is becoming more and more industrialized, and is home to over 1 million. A kevlar space elevator has been set up, along with several long mass drivers on the surface. Mars population exceeds 10,000 and the colony is growing rapidly. At least one mission to Jupiter has been accomplished, which left from Mars orbit, and there are plans to get a base on Callisto. New breakthroughs in propulsion combined with launch capability from Moon and Mars will soon allow for manned Saturn missions.
