re moonbase race in article r rn innn mojo eng umd edu sysmgr king eng umd edu writes you d need to launch hlvs to send up large amounts of stuff do you know of a private titan pad you d need to launch hlvs to send up large amounts of stuff if you assume no new launcher development if you assume new launcher development with lower costs as a specific objective then you probably don t want to build something hlv sized anyway nobody who is interested in launching things cheaply will buy titans it doesn t take many titan pricetags to pay for a laser launcher or a large gas gun or a development program for a big dumb booster all of which would have far better cost effectiveness
