[shmoe]

NASA already let 'em off the hook for testing an elevator to get down to the surface from the ship. The best part is no part/elevator!

One giant leap?

[ProAm]

That thing ain't landing vertically on the moon anyhow. Look at what Neil had to do to find a remotely flat spot to put a much smaller ship down.

[cameldrv]

Yes but we now have very detailed topographical maps of the moon, and the GNC systems are way better. I expect they will carefully choose the exact landing spot and hit it within 10m or so. Certainly it lacks the heroism of eyeballing a good place to set down with 60 seconds of gas in the tank.

[ProAm]

Musk never does it right the first time, second time and maybe the third time. Not going to happen

[jedmeyers]

> One giant leap?

The gravity is weaker so just jump down /s

[xnx]

40 foot drops would be survivable on the moon.

[starkeeper]

It's 40 meters, so it is only survivable with jump jets. That would be cool though.

(ChatGPT answered, I was too lazy to computer 40m with gravity being 1.62m/s on the lunar surface.)

Velocity on impact: ~11.4 m/s km/h: ~41 km/h mph: ~25.5 mph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_HLS