What to make of Musk’s comments that are critical of NASA’s lunar plans?
  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Yeah but if you went to the moon and built a base there it’d make it a thousand times easier. The gravity is so low on the moon you could basically launch spacecraft for free by just using a fancy space catapult. That’d make it so you can save all the fuel for the actual trip instead of using 70% of it just to get off the planet. It’s not fucking rocket science… Oh wait it is.

    • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      That’s only practical if you can make fuel on the moon. Which requires establishing a factory on the moon. That may be cost effective in the long term, but there is a high chance we only go to Mars two or three times in the next 50 years.