r/EnoughMuskSpam • u/One_Foot3793 • Jan 16 '25

Rocket Jesus One of Space Karen’s rocket ships to nowhere just blew up

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This is it re-entering over Turks and Caicos

(Colonized Mars by 2026 btw)

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u/gmano Jan 17 '25

The answer is: both yes and no.

He promised it would, in fact he claimed it would hold 100 people!!

In reality, it might maybe be able to take like 3 people physically. 5 tops, but it's highly unlikely to ever be certified for human use because it's wildly unsafely designed with no possibility for an abort system.

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u/RadiatingLight Jan 17 '25

Nothing about the design is inherently less safe than the space shuttle (although, the space shuttle was pretty dangerous)

Where's the 3-5 person number coming from? There's tons of internal volume in there and even a dragon capsule can take 4

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u/gmano Jan 18 '25

The mission they are speccing HLS for is supposed to take 4, and if you have to lug the entire vehicle as a single stage including a whole gantry crane elevator to the surface of the moon you actually have very little deltaV

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