I understand that SpaceX is able to deliver material goods and personal to the international space station.
I don’t understand why the design to take people to the moon is substantially different, and why it’s failing while getting to low earth orbit.
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Its really isnt that different tbh but space is such a new fro tier that we are still at that point where we dont have a “general solution” for these things and everything is optimized and built around transporting a specific amount of cargo to a specific place for a specific time so “making it but bigger” is still a challenge.
Think of it like this, we currently only have trains instead of cars. If we need to get somewhere new, we cant just grab a car and make some modifications like different tires or engine and “drive there”, we need to build whole new infrastructure like train tracks power lines, maybe tunnels and talk to the city hall and get permits.
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