From: niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid   
      
   On 2024-03-14 18:52, Alain Fournier wrote:   
   > On 2024-03-14 10:53 a.m., The Running Man wrote:   
   >   
   >> NASA won't be too happy with this since it will make a 2025 Lunar   
   >> landing all but impossible. Even 2026 is dubious.   
   >   
   > I wouldn't say that. Reusing the stages isn't required to reach the   
   > moon. That only allows SpaceX to make big profits. It seems to me   
   > that the booster showed today that it can put the ship were it needs   
   > to be to reach orbit. The ship did not reach orbit simply because it   
   > wasn't trying to reach orbit. The ship didn't succeed in its reentry,   
   > but there is no reentry involved in the moon mission.   
      
      
   If the tanker ships, for refuelling the Lunar Starship in Earth orbit,   
   can't reenter and be reused, it will be /quite/ expensive, right?   
      
   There have been various statements about the number of tanker launches   
   needed for one lunar mission, but there seems to be agreement that the   
   number is about 10 or more.   
      
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