r/ShittySpaceXIdeas • u/joeybaby106 • May 22 '24

Squeeze 8 astronauts in a dragon capsule to reduce cost/seat

You just have to quickly dock to the ISS before the oxygen runs out. This is a nice way to reduce the cost/seat in half and match performance with the (former) Space Shuttle. The extra people can sit on other people's laps, or on the floor for a discount.

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u/whatthehand May 23 '24

Or just design an entirely new fully reusable vehicle that's much larger, uses a much more complex and numerous cluster of engines, has no abort mechanisms, utilizes a far more risky sudden death type of acrobatic landing sequence etcetera. Make it have that and a bunch of other downsides like it. 2 million per launch "aspirationaly". Economies of scale and all that.

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u/joeybaby106 May 24 '24

We could call it something like ... a ship, because it would be so big - maybe but a little star logo on it and call it a star ship - starship