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by elurg 1262 days ago
Life support is not particularly difficult if you can just throw mass at it.

It's probably true that Starship would only be capable to support 10 colonists all the way to Mars and that's still pretty damn good. This number will grow if you have a separate life support system on the surface and don't have to rely on the ship but the first missions will indeed have a very small crew.