>>12984593This is obvious of course, but the implications are also more profound because no other launcher in that list can launch 100T AND capacity for 25 people, all food, water, medical, science, and other instrumentation, to the surface of the moon and do it for less than 250 million.
A lunar starship is like discovering a lost ancestor in the tree of evolution levels of big. Alpaca and BlueMoon can put 2 people on the moon and they're crammed into a space the size of a bathroom.
Lunar Starship can put 25 people onto the surface of the moon, and they have 3x the volume of the ISS to LIVE in. They have:
>their own rooms>the cargo and airlock spaces is physically separated and vacuum sealed>anywhere from 4-6 people can exercise in the same room simultaneously while looking out onto the surface of the moon>there's more than one bathroom on the Lunarstarship>with 1/4th Earth's gravity, it will be possible to have ACTUAL SHOWERS>they have a location on the ship that's radiation protected>they have a space where they can dedicate a whole 3m ring to hydrophonics to grow their own food on the Moon>they have enough space to dedicate to a fucking medical facility if something happens on the moon>they have a command deck where each astronaut isn't crammed together like a pack of sardines and is instead seated like they're on a comfortable ass couch>the internal sealed cargo space separate from the airlock is sufficiently large enough to carry material payload for up to 25 people to live on the Moon for weeks>ON TOP OF ALL THIS>they have enough space on the ship to ferry 100T of cargo in the form of 3 ultra massive cargo containers attached to the BASE of the starship where the engines are>the internal cargo volume where the airlock is, is just large enough to store all the necessary space suits AND be able to carry a cybertruck that's space rated to explore the moon withLunarship is a full multi-week mission with full habitation in 1 body for $2.9Bn.
