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Starship is specifically designed to fly to and land on Mars: https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/ https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
by deepdriver 4y ago
Starship is specifically designed to fly to and land on Mars:
https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/ https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
- p_l 4y agoThat's... some chutzpah, especially combined with no mention of specific problems involved. But maybe for a very small crew it will work? That said, they could update the page, it's 2022 already and promising great things in the future year of 2020 is not a good look.
- thematrixturtle 4y agoMusk/SpaceX have been working on Mars for literally decades at this point, and are very cognizant of the incredible difficulties involved. Here's a primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_program
- p_l 4y agoIt might surprise you, but that doesn't make SpaceX's Martian program the longest one, or even in the running for that title. And while I do not want to besmirch SpaceX engineers working on it, the website is not a statement from them, it's a statement from PR machinery. Which holds similar weight as "FSD is next year" being told for 7 years by Tesla PR. If they manage it, congrats. If not, I still reserve the right to laugh at the PR machine (not at the engineers, they have a hard problem to solve that isn't helped by overpromising PR).
- me_me_me 4y agoIts not designed for crew to exit the ship once it lands on mars. I do not have high hopes in that design.