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by hadlock 723 days ago
China is developing a 10m diameter rocket that looks heavily inspired by Starship; methalox engines, stainless steel construction, possibly partly/fully reusable

But yeah I can't imagine this going on any other rocket. At some point in the future there will be a market for habitable volume. Right now habitable volume is built like an RV, a mostly self-contained singular unit, but in the future modular construction might look like big rigid bubbles of air with windows, and every couple of units you have a "mechanical" area for hvac, power, water etc, similar to how high-rise buildings are designed.