[rtkwe]

The more fuel economic way long term is break the mission into parts and reuse vehicles; single ship from surface to Lunar orbit, dock and transfer to a staged lander at a station and take the up and down. Taking Starship all the way to the surface wastes a tremendous amount of fuel hauling around the mass to get back home and through to landing safely.

[m4rtink]

Long term definitely like this! BTW, this exact sequence can be seen at the start of the Space Odyssey movie, with the main character traveling from Earth to Moon.

[rtkwe]

That's the long term NASA plan under the Gateway name. A little lunar orbit permanent station to replace the ISS.