(Pushes up glasses by bridge) Actually, I think that the tracks would be set in stainless steel.
Sapce X is big on stainless steel.
It doesn’t work so well for me in a room with salt water aquariums, but I guess there isn’t much salt in the vacumn of space or the surface of the moon.
That looks crazy, Buck Rogers stuff.
I recall first hand the trouble Neil Armstrong, the best pilot in NASA, had finding a space to land the LEM. “Kicking up some dust”. Will they be able to see the lunar surface from the to[ of this lander?
They will drop down one guy ahead of the landing and he will stand there gesturing with his arms and saying “Okay, okay, you got it, liiitle bit further.”
C’mon back, 'mon back!
With a jet pack!
Why do you think any human will be involved in controlling the landing? Humans aren’t driving the booster landings on Earth now.
A big difference today is that the moon has been mapped to about .5 meters precision by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It shouldn’t be hard to find a landing site.
As for kicking up dust, despite Starship HLS being huge, it shouldn’t kick up much dust around it, as the landing engines are in a ring roughly 75 feet from the surface and angled outwards. This is necessary because if the landing engines were on the bottom the force of the exhaust would blow Lunar Regolith all across the entire moon, and some might even be blasted into Earth Orbit where it could put satellites at risk if there were a lot of landings. With 28 smaller engines in a ring 75 feet off the ground, the regolith disturbance should be minimal.
Also, Starship HLS is supposed to have self-levelling legs in case it lands on a slope or some legs depress into the regolith more than others.
The rocket lands using a second set of engines, which are higher up along the outside of the rocket, I think
Eta- ninjad of course