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user-inactivated  ·  2736 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

Yea. The water weight and volume shocked me as I was expecting those numbers to be much higher. If I was doing this myself, however, this is what I would do.

Launch the 100 man vessel. Then launch the "refuler" and dock it. Then launch a propulsion unit to dock with the other two units, go to mars and use the unmanned portions as a space depot of sorts in martian orbit. Land the people, do you thing and with enough of the "empties, you can either refuel them or salvage them for parts.

I'll go out on a limb here and assume you read Zubin's plan correct?

Being able to dump 300 tons into LEO, and recycle the booster is going to create a massive demand for space based services IMO. I hope it all happens and we can cheer it along, but I am no on the Hype train... yet. Let's get a few Falcon 9 Heavy launches under our belts and get manned resupply to the ISS, maybe even a manned Lunar landing. Then I will start to get excited.