Blow up a billion dollar rocket in the testing phases

>Humans aren't going anywhere for a long time.
Well not with an attitude like that

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People treat science like it's magic and ignore scale. Even scientists and engineers do this because muh mankind. Go ahead, blow up more rockets and send astronauts to develop radiation poisoning on Mars. Thousands of years from now when this shit might be viable you'll all be remembered as pioneers.

hmmmm... he is ambitious, but i do not think he is stupid. His team has proved itself to be quite brilliant, why so much pessimism?

It's not that it's impossible. It's that he'll never be able to afford it.
He'll need some MASSIVE amount of investment.

He estimated $62M cost for one trip assuming full reusability of booster, tanker and ship.
Now he wants to send 100 people per trip. That's 620K, a lot more than his 200K ticket price he wants.
And that's just the cost for a trip. You still have the entire development and fabrication of everything left.

Sure the US government or even the EU might throw in a dime. Maybe even some private corps like Google. But I doubt it will be nearly enough.

an ITS can haul 200 and something tons of just scientific experiments to mars, imagine how appealing that would be. I understand your point as it is the most difficult one for them to surpass, but it has enough strong points to make it through at least the initial stages. I just wonder how much stress is involved in actually flying it. the price per ticket would go sown, eventually. imagine that instead of spending 1.2 million dollars for a car, you could spend half of that to go to mars, seems pretty dope for those who have the money.

>Monster rocket, 17m widest point
>Fuckton of staged combustion cycle motors clustered in concentric circles
>Payload is an interplanetary spacecraft
>Grid-fins on the first stage.

Mother of god, the absolute madman is trying to resurrect the N1.

Hope no one is in Titusville when they light this thing...

Yeah but why would rich people wanna go to Mars? Their money will be worthless there.

Because most people isnt a fucking loser like you and likes challenges.

Obviously the first trips would/will be way more expensive. First plane flights were only for rich people.

>Please tell me NASA does not take Musketeers seriously.
Not his Mars plans that's for sure.

bro.... you can come back if you want. and I feel as if there is no sense of adventure in you. "why would people want to go to mars?"
because why the fuck not?! You will do something that no one except for a very few others has ever done in all of human's history, i think it is worth it.

any d you will always be in the forever of forevers of forevers of being the first one

even after billions ofn billions of days have happened the literal objective fact will be that youre have been the number one

There are dozens of people that have given more millions of dollars to NASA to get on board of ISS alone. Even for 600k, there will be literally thousands of people signing up for the thrill value alone. There are people that spend much higher amounts for their thrills and hobbies. Space exploration is the lifelong hobby of a good fraction of the whole population.

Hes an idiot or troll. He is probably referring to the heavy radiation in open space. Seeing as how the moon orbits the earth at about 238,000 mi and on the day side of the earths magentosphere is only 40,000 mi out. So the moon walkers wouldve been toast by his logic. We have shielding to protect people in deep space.

2 weeks in LEO with the option to immediately abort at all times is something vastly different than being stuck on another planet for almost 3 years till the planets are aligned properly for the return trajectory.

>"it will be fun, really fun, you could have zero g games during the spaceflight, really fun"

- elon musketer

Alternative 3

42 fucking engines

So many chances for things to go kaboom