SpaceX Starship Will Never go to the Moon or Mars

The cofounder of SpaceX, aerospace engineer Tom Mueller (BS and MS in engineering), and his team, who developed the now successful SpaceX technologies, have left the company. What’s left is an insel with a speech impediment pretending to be an engineer and who thinks he’s an engineer because he takes credit for other people’s engineering work. He pretends (here are the real founders) to be a founder of Tesla to look cool. At least his good buddy, Peter Thiel is gay, and doesn’t have to worry about how to get a girl. And now he’s created the downfall of SpaceX, the Starship. If Sigmund Freud were alive today, he’d have a field day with Starship and Musk’s obsession with sex. Thanks to the deregulation and privatization of government, including NASA, a woman at NASA who chose to fund Starship, was then hired by SpaceX with a big salary. It’s called regulatory capture, and it’s a key reason, along with reduced government funding of R&D, why the US is falling behind in the science and technology race, including the space race where China may soon lead.

Starship is a complicated mess of a project requiring about 20 Starships to land one lunar module on the moon. Look at Thunderfoot’s video on the project for a deep-dive into more of Musk’s tomfollery. Scientists and engineers in Germany have published a paper on the infeasibility of a Starship mission to Mars. The below image is an outcrop of the video schematizing just how fanatstical is the Starship boondoggle that will never go to the moon.

And the woman at NASA, Kathryn Leuters, who personally chose Starship for the moon project, now works for SpaceX. You can’t make this stuff up. Corruption beyond the normal person’s imagination.

Colonizing Mars is a bad joke. As the deregulated and privatized capital (money) of the USA is flowing to the billionaires who want to look cool by saying outlandish things such as we can colonize Mars with our current technology, the science and technology of the USA continues to diminish as we hand over our lead to China. Some people are finally catching-on to what’s happening to our country the 40 years hence that Ronald Reagan handed over everything to the plutocrats. Shit, we can’t even colonize the deserts on Earth, which are a veritable cornucopia compared to Mars.

A picture of the billionaires who did a space walk during a SpaceX mission in 2024. Oh, wait a second, that’s a picture of NASA’s space walk in 1965, where, unlike SpaceX in 2024, the astronaut, Ed White, actually left the spaceship and “walked” in space.

The rich have taken over politics, do everything they can to make government look bad, and then tell the US middle class how bad the government is, having themselves made the government awful. Then the wealthy lobby and pay-off politicians, using the government doesn’t work mantra, to pass laws that deregulate and privatize government. Deregulation means the wealthy can do what they want. And privatization means the wealthy capture taxpayer’s dollars. Who cares if Tesla and SpaceX are polluting Texas. Pollution is the greatest cause of disease, but the rich guys don’t care. This deregulation allows the wealthy to then further strip down the government and takover those government functions. Electricity, water, prisons, schools, internet, “public radio and TV (yes, Republicans privatized these too),” the military, roads, elections, you name it, it’s in the hands of the wealthy and their corporations. And they do what they want with little interference. Houston, Texas-based Enron was a great example, where the rich guys in Texas did everything possible to hurt middle-class Californians. Want to send yourself into space along with some billionaire buddies, go ahead, the US middle class will pay for your folly. Hell, some of these middle-class morons will actually storm the US Capitol Building, break-in, and kill the Capitol Police, in defense of the plutocrats stealing wealth from them, the middle-class.

Meanwhile, the Chinese use their capital to build the world’s greatest science and technology. and they’re beating us on the moon and mars. China does not have a insel with a speech impediment leading their space program, instead they have an engineer leading their program.

SpaceX recently accomplished, well, almost accomplished, what NASA did back in 1965. Nearly 60 years ago, a man, NASA astronaut Edward White, exited the spaceship and floated around space on a tether back in ’65. Those were the days in the USA when science and scientists were valued. Scientists such as Dr. Thomas Paine, Ph.D., led NASA. But now, the privatized SpaceX and its billionaires couldn’t even accomplish in 2024 what NASA did in 1965. Instead, the SpaceX billionaires popped their heads outside the hatch and had a quick look while still in their space capsule. And, congratulations to the US middle class taxpayers, you’re hard earned dollars support these billionaires in their playtime in space.

SpaceX fails to accomplish what NASA did in 1965, but uses taxpayer dollars to give billionaires a joyride in orbital space.

Considering the SpaceX catch of the booster rocket for Starship, a miraculous feat, right?Here’s a picture ot it:

Oh, wait a minute. That’s the McDonnell-Douglas DC-X, known as the Delta Clipper, performing a precise reentry to the launch pad back in 1993. Another company, Astrobotic, has had reusable vehicles for years with the most rocket-powered return-to-pad-landings in the industry, not to mention the reusable Space Shuttle in the 1970s. Here’s Dr. Philip Mason, Ph.D., a chemist, take on the SpaceX Starship program and the reentry of the booster. Then there is Masten Space Systems – Masten has demonstrated more than 600 successful flight operations across five vertical takeoff and vertical landing vehicles beginning in 2009.

For a bigger waste of money, according to current estimates by scientists and engineers, a single Starship may need 20 other Starship launches to gather enough fuel through a complex refueling strategy in orbit to reach the Moon. NASA spelled-out the what a ridiculous plan is Starship for going to the moon, or beyond, in a 2023 report. Refueling will occur in low Earth orbit – so imagine the pollution that will take place during refueling due to the high number of launches and the anticpated failure of SpaceX to accomplish this task. Lots of launches and the resulting atmospheric pollution, along with the leakage of methane and other propellents that will likely spill during the sloppy and/or failed refueling attempts. You think global warming is bad now, just wait until Musk finishes off human life on the planet with his childish Buck Rogers fantasies.

In a presentation at a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council’s human exploration and operations committee Nov. 17, 2023, Lakiesha Hawkins, assistant deputy associate administrator in NASA’s Moon to Mars Program Office, said the company will have to perform Starship launches from both its current pad in Texas and one it is constructing at the Kennedy Space Center in order send a lander to the moon for Artemis 3.

SpaceX’s concept of operations for the Starship lunar lander it is developing for the Human Landing System (HLS) program requires multiple launches of the Starship/Super Heavy system. One launch will place a propellant depot into orbit, followed by multiple other launches of tanker versions of Starship, transferring methane and liquid oxygen propellants into the depot. That will be followed by the lander version of Starship, which will rendezvous with the depot and fill its tanks before going to the moon.

Musk had nothing to do with the creation of Tesla, wasn’t involved in its current successful technologies and cars (engineers Mark Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard created the company and its technologies), but brought stupid ideas such as FSD and robotaxies to the failing company. Musk also had nothing to do with SpaceX’s now successful technologies – those were developed by Tom Mueller and team. Like all the other things Musk has promised, such as underground tunneling and a hyperloop for transportation, Starship landing on the moon will never happen. Instead, we’ll see much pollution from SpaceX as the Chinese dominate space.