It's not the launch, it's the landing.
What I think really matters for this #Starship flight is assuming someone can get it to cis-lunar space right now, after learning from this flight, I can relatively trust this thing *as is, SN9* to land it on the Moon & back to Gateway/lunar orbit.
Launching from Earth though...
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Yeah they will have to stick it for SN9's next flight, and I'm sure it needs a lot more tweaking for the fine precision movements near the surface to make it a good robotic lander, never mind people (which is still years away). Still that's quite s/t that was demonstrated today.
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They need to perfect refueling to get to the Moon. That and thermal protection on reentry feel like the biggest hurdles, not the landing itself.
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They can use it as a lunar lander for Artemis III by solving refueling and landing but without worrying about heat shields. It’s gonna need a fair amount of flight history before NASA will use it as a launch vehicle, and if they have Orion might as well land in it.
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