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by MisterBiggs 1876 days ago
The plan for Artemis is to get Humans into space using SLS so I think we may be a long way before Starship needs to be human rated for launch. That being said I think we really need to be planning big and if there isn't a future where Humans are regularly going to space cheaply then there isn't much of a future in space at all and right now Starship is the only thing close to that capability.

The requirements for anything beyond a simple Moon base really are quite daunting but we will never get close without taking a much riskier approach to space than we are seeing now.