Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "SpaceX Reveals NEW Space Station - The Haven 1!" video.

  1. To first order, fuel is cheap, spacecraft are expensive. But even reusable spacecraft have a design life. Perhaps a Starship used up as a vehicle could be used as a station/fuel depot but the way reuse makes access to orbit cheaper is not having to use each vehicle only once. By not reusing any Starship you negate the savings and make SpaceX launches as expensive as everybody else's. Reusing spacecraft means that for the price of one spacecraft you get to launch many times the spacecraft's payload into orbit. Using it once means you get to launch ONE time the spacecraft's payload into space for almost the same price. That is what we have been doing before, and it is EXACTLY HOW NOT TO SAVE MONEY.
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