Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready?

I don’t really see a way out, other than you’re just all in on Starship for the next four or five years. When you think about this, you have proven ability for SpaceX to scale up launch cadence quite quickly. They have plans to go fly out of Florida with Starship, they’ve got two pads in Texas. They have infrastructure scale now. It is not something that we need to watch them build, and then make use of. So I do think this should be a clarifying moment to just go all in on Starship for the first landing and not try to over-complicate the next two years. Well, if we put this lander on that, and we make new facilities in this launch pad to be able to service this vehicle, then we could fly this thing and meet up with that thing in orbit. That’s very quickly getting to a point where it’s more complex than a company that can already fly 160 times a year flying a new vehicle tens of times a year. That is a more believable pathway to me. Toward the end of the conversation, we also had a rapid-fire section where the panelists answered a number of questions from viewers watching the event live.