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Re:NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1% by dartos on Monday February 24, 2025 @08:08AM (#43159113)
> Projects are a lot harder when trips to the hardware store take months rather than days

How long do you think it takes to plan a trip to the moon?

> I think Starship makes colonies a whole lot more viable

Why?

Re:NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1% by ericd on Monday February 24, 2025 @08:37AM (#43159408)
Presumably there’d be regular missions, so there’d be relatively little additional planning for a given moon trip, similar to how there’s a lot less planning/paperwork that goes into a Falcon 9 launch these days than there was for any rocket before Falcon 9.

Starship’s goal is to drop cost of mass to orbit by a couple of orders of magnitude, if they pull that off, it would drop the cost of supporting a colony by quite a bit.