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Re:Jeff Bezos Pledges to Expand His Space Ventures by icelancer on Sunday May 27, 2018 @01:42AM (#17165615)
You can send 50 rockets individually to the moon to deposit fuel and use it as a refueling/relaunching point. 50x fuel can't go up with the passenger-laden craft in the same way.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Pledges to Expand His Space Ventures by bchallenor on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:12AM (#17165711)
You can just refuel in Earth orbit though. That would use less fuel [1] than landing on the moon unless you were going to the moon anyway.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget

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Re:Jeff Bezos Pledges to Expand His Space Ventures by icelancer on Sunday May 27, 2018 @02:18AM (#17165728)
True but storage is an issue and as I said in another comment, Project Orion-type endeavors become more palatable when launched from a stable orbiting rock rather than empty space or a manmade platform.
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