In other news it cost me $1500 to do a year of grocery shopping trips while it cost $1500 for one transatlantic return trip holiday.
Apples to oranges comparison. 400km to low earth orbit is not compatible to a 384400km trip to another gravity well.
Apples to oranges comparison. 400km to low earth orbit is not compatible to a 384400km trip to another gravity well.
Also, Falcon 9 has delivered multiple payloads to lunar orbit. Examples are ispace's Hakuto-R Mission 1, SpaceIL's Beresheet, and South Korea's Danuri. In interplanetary space, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test was launched on a Falcon 9.
Danuri: 1,495 lbs
Hakuto-R: 2,200 lbs
DART: 1,340 lbs
Artemis 2: 112,000 lbs
Even by your examples there remains a 10,000% to 5,000% fold scale difference. And SpaceX agrees with this. This difference in scale is why they are working on Starship.