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Re:SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond ... by yellowapple on Monday February 27, 2017 @07:51PM (#13750149)
This can be applied to much more than just fuel, mind you. Interplanetary manned vehicles might very well end up looking like space stations, with a bunch of modules docked together in order to provide the necessary creature comforts to sustain a crew for months on end.

In fact, a permanently-in-orbit transfer vehicle might make sense here; have this vehicle run the actual Earth<->Mars transfers, then just shuttle in fuel/supplies/crew on each Earth arrival.

Either way, a Falcon-like reusable launch system makes plenty of sense here in terms of making this sort of thing possible.

Re:SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond ... by pheldagryph on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:06AM (#13751646)
> a permanently-in-orbit transfer vehicle might make sense here

Buzz Aldrin is a big proponent of this approach: https://buzzaldrin.com/space-vision/rocket_science/aldrin-ma...