"Starship’s early developmental challenges meant that target whizzed by."
This article is not to be trusted.
My call:
It will be too much work to man-rate Starship in time and the landing will be done by a Blue Origin lander. Starship will bring it to the moon and back, along with an Orion for the launch and reentry.
Starship is 100% the wrong design. Way too many complications with Starship. So much can go wrong.
LRO is the right approach.
This is a lie:
"Starship’s early developmental challenges meant that target whizzed by."
This article is not to be trusted.
My call:
It will be too much work to man-rate Starship in time and the landing will be done by a Blue Origin lander. Starship will bring it to the moon and back, along with an Orion for the launch and reentry.