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The more fuel economic way long term is break the mission into parts and reuse vehicles; single ship from surface to Lunar orbit, dock and transfer to a staged lander at a station and take the up and down. Taking Starship all the way to the surface wastes a tremendous amount of fuel hauling around the mass to get back home and through to landing safely.


Long term definitely like this! BTW, this exact sequence can be seen at the start of the Space Odyssey movie, with the main character traveling from Earth to Moon.


That's the long term NASA plan under the Gateway name. A little lunar orbit permanent station to replace the ISS.




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