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For Starship to go to #Mars 
, you’ve got to get #Starship tankers 
on orbit and perfect orbital refueling. #SpaceX will have to perfect the #robots 
that will help build spacecraft #LandingPads and human #habitats on the Martian surface, prospect for water 
underground, and convert the water and carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere into vast reservoirs of super-cooled oxygen and methane for the Starships’ return voyage to Earth. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2025/03/11/spacexs-starship-plan-to-land-first-humans-on-mars-but-not-till-2031
ForbesSpaceX Starship Poised To Land First Humans On Mars, But Not Till 2031Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to speed astronauts to Mars, but not until 2031.
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satellites when their working lives are over. Different types of trash 
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. They radiate heat, they're very expensive to keep alive and unlike robotic missions, they have a natural desire to come back, so that anything involving human beings is enormously expensive." 
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and assemble large structures in space and are much, much cheaper 
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