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correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think the second stage is meant to be caught. It will have legs to land on Earth/Mars without any landing infrastructure.



It will have legs for Mars but they plan on catching it on Earth.


It is expected to land astronauts on the Moon as well this decade, which will certainly require legs.


That is a different version. The ones launching/landing on Earth are supposed to be caught by arms similar to the booster.


The ones for other celestial bodies are also planned to return to Earth... Being inside one as it does the belly flop will be quite the experience.


Pretty sure the Artemis lunar missions are going to use a different vehicle for Earth to LEO and LEO to Earth, so I don’t think anyone will be inside a Starship belly flop for quite some time


Or have the tower on the moon catch it.


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Stop making alts to spam your conspiracy theories everywhere


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wondering if you all with your fresh accounts and this silly smear campaign are bots or actual people


Just looked at some Reddit links posted and what the account has said over time and it is just _specifically_ this.

Over 4 months old. The same thing posted, over, and over. Even alleging xAI "knows" about Musk's "secrets".


Plus, their 'evidence' is a leading conversation with an LLM. It's the AI equivalent of a conspiracy nut taking 50 tangentially related articles about Apollo and stitching together a narrative about how the landings were faked.




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