Comments by "Zach B" (@zachb1706) on "" video.

  1. Tracing the path isn’t the big issue. It’s all the complicated specialised tech with little margin for error.
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  2. Yes it includes delivery and control of operations. It also includes both manned and unmanned use for a few months. And this is not the only money. The entire LTV program will pay out around $4.5 billion in total over 15 years of operations. The reason it costs so much is its lack of commercialisation. Unlike something like Starship where it obviously has a commercial value. So NASA has to fit the bill for more of the development.
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  3. Not marketing numbers. The engines are capable of those numbers. They just purposely under throttle them. Maybe for efficiency reasons, maybe for reliability. Probably for reliability
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  4. If Starship can get the performance for a LEO to Mars and back to LEO, then that’d be my choice. Paired with the FLEX rover seeing as it’ll: 1. Already be ready and 2. Be highly capable for that mission
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  5. Humans can do the work it takes a rover months to do in a day. They are more flexible, can do tasks that rovers can’t. Also a part of the experiment is to learn how to live for extended periods of time on another body. How to build large infrastructure. How to master in situ resource utilisation. All of that will be essential for a colony on mars.
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  6.  @codymoe4986  they can already do that, but yeah they have a long way to go to pulling off this mission. But they have what, atleast 4 years with most elements in place?
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  7.  @EMichaelBall  that’s a possibility, would probably add complexity though
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  8. Wasn’t the plan to switch to V2 in the first place? The reason for it taking so long was Raptor V3 delays
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  9. Probably all Western countries.
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