And what if the lift fails? How are they gonna climb up 40 meters with a huge and bulky Moon suit?
It would be bummer if you had to die on the Moon because you couldn't climb back up into your spaceship.
It would be bummer if you had to die on the Moon because you couldn't climb back up into your spaceship.
The sheer scale of Starship is stupefying. If it ever gets there, it will in one go transport tens of times the payload of every previous lunar mission put together. The scale of what it can do will allow it to be quite a bit less efficient about things than everything else has to be, and so it can spend some mass on redundancy of important systems.