NOT Seeing This on the News
This Seems Relatively (!) Important In all the coverage of the upcoming NASA SLS slingshot around the moon coverage, it seems to me that direct comparisons between our two moon-bound rockets are missing. Maybe I'm just not watching the right media? I'm a big fan of both NASA and SpaceX, and they have different objectives in our return to Luna. Still, comparisons are enlightening. This occurred to me watching the SLS creep toward the launchpad on the same huge, tracked crawler that moved the Saturn stacks. Space X is a whole new generation, including how it gets to its launchpad. And Starship is a LOT bigger! Want to drag race? BIG DIFFS ALL AROUND like how they get to their launchpads. NASA SLS Transport MethodUses the Crawler-Transporter 2 (CT-2), a massive tracked vehicle (world's largest self-propelled) that carries the entire stacked rocket on a Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP). The crawler has laser guidance for leveling and precision docking. SpaceX Starship Stage...