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Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by quotemstr on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:35AM (#41828895)
Even $50 is within "going to the moon for my honeymoon" range. Wow.
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by augusto-moura on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:51AM (#41829022)
$50 is a number for LEO (Low-earth orbit). $/kg to a Moon orbit (or flyby) might be significantly more expensive. Not that, because it is further so it needs more fuel, but also it is a few days trip which would need a bunch more kilos in provisioning food, water and other things. So yeah, unfortunately not that cheap to have a honeyMoon in the moon (heh)

There is a lot of possibilities to make a trip to the moon cheaper though. If we make LEO that cheap, we can build a lot of infrastructure in the space that would make the tourism to moon more affordable. Like keeping a few starships always in orbit as some kind of space-hotel-metro system.

This will probably take a few more decades, though.

Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by Valgrim on Sunday October 13, 2024 @01:42PM (#41829918)
Artemis by Andy Weir dwells a lot on this kind of infrastructure, but I never could understand the orbital mechanics described in the book.
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by rkagerer on Sunday October 13, 2024 @07:07PM (#41832552)
Yeah it wasn't explained well in the book, but I did some reading of third-party sources and diagrams about the Uphoff-Crouch Lunar Cycler orbit, which helped (Wikipedia and the like).
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by mr_toad on Monday October 14, 2024 @07:59PM (#41843539)
Even if it cost 10x as much to reach the Moon it would bring the costs within range of mere multi-millionaires instead of billionaires.
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by augusto-moura on Thursday October 17, 2024 @12:42PM (#41871266)
That is true, I guess some weird multi billionaire might have a honeymoon there. We should see some other media as well, like movies perhaps, and of course p*rn
Re:Starship Flight 5 [video] by itishappy on Sunday October 13, 2024 @12:35PM (#41829375)
Only if you don't care about coming back!