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		rbanffy on June 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexic... > To get the system human rated, they may have to fly tens or even hundreds of flawless cargo missions first. Each lunar flight implies four launches and three landings on Earth, so the numbers should build up rather quickly.

cubefox on June 7, 2024 [–]

It's much more per lunar flight, but there are very few of those flights. About three over the next two decades.

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