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by venusenvy47 762 days ago
I don't think there is any plan for a roundtrip Starship lunar mission. I think it is too heavy to get back.
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> I don't think there is any plan for a roundtrip Starship lunar mission.

There are currently no official NASA plans to do so. In part because if there were that would be NASA tacitly giving up on SLS and Orion, which Congress would never support.

We'll see what happens if SpaceX ever advertises such a capability.

> I think it is too heavy to get back.

There are a number of architectures that have been proposed that should work. From what I recall, all of the involve using multiple Starship vehicles going to Lunar orbit.