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Re:SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryoge... by 1958325146 on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:14AM (#22769299)
If we're talking about schedule slip: the schedule is a flyby of (not landing on) the moon in 2023 (not 2022). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DearMoon_project
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Re:SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryoge... by mr_toad on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:50PM (#22775547)
It’s questionable if they’ll ever consider landing a Starship on the moon. It would require multiple orbital tankers to give it enough fuel (unless it was a one way trip). And there is no possibility of ever manufacturing metholox on the moon.
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Re:SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryoge... by ceejayoz on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:46AM (#22769683)
That article indicates a schedule slip on SpaceX's earlier moon plans from 2018, though.
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Re:SpaceX loses its third Starship prototype during a cryoge... by gpm on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:14AM (#22770048)
That schedule change wasn't related to a schedule slip on starship, it was a decision to switch from a small mission (by number of people) using a falcon heavy and crew dragon to a bigger mission using starship.

It might have been related to the schedule slippage on crew dragon though, considering they are just now ready to fly astronauts on crew dragon.

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