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Re:After years of setbacks, NASA’s SLS moon rocket is ready ... by Veedrac on Sunday August 28, 2022 @11:59PM (#32634674)
That is a very unfair comparison. You are giving numbers for Starship going to NRHO, then landing the whole upper stage on the moon, then returning it to NRHO. That is a completely different ballpark to SLS's ‘dump a capsule in a lunar flyby which itself can't even get to LLO’.

And if the SLS/Orion architecture wasn't so underperforming, Starship could waste less energy making up for it.

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