SpaceX's new Starship Method to Land Blue Moon on the Moon Shocked NASA!

SpaceX's new Starship Method to Land Blue Moon on the Moon Shocked NASA!
===
#alphatech
#techalpha
#spacex
#elonmusk
===
0:00 B.O Search For Plan B
2:54 Starship Meets Centaur
8:09 The Engineering Hurdles
10:13 NASA Validates Logic
===
Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceflightNowVideo
Greg Scott: https://twitter.com/GregScott_photo
IGW: https://www.youtube.com/@InterstellarGateway/featured
Evan Karen: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDN1X8Fz1oAXX-rBcOWjzmg
Project Road to Mars: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBIumwk1oar1CEbgUybw1tA
TijnM: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDA8yz_nQY-0Uxd96-qxYjA
Tamás Török: https://www.youtube.com/@tomket7
iamVisual: https://www.youtube.com/@iamVisualVFX/videos
Lewis Knaggs: https://www.youtube.com/@LewisKnaggs
SpacexVision: https://www.youtube.com/c/SpaceXvision
RyanHansenSpace: https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanHansenSpace
C-bass Productions: https://www.youtube.com/c/CbassProductions
Digital Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalAstronaut/videos
ThreeDeDaniel: https://x.com/ThreeDeDaniel
WAI: https://twitter.com/FelixSchlang
===
SpaceX's new Starship Method to Land Blue Moon on the Moon Shocked NASA!
“Now, what I will say is we are also decoupling the lander from the launch vehicle and the pad itself. What does that mean? It means NASA is laser-focused on the lander, because we're laser-focused on our mission to return astronauts to the surface of the moon before 2028”
Using SpaceX’s Starship to launch Blue Origin’s Blue Moon is the craziest and most ironic plan in the space industry right now. However, this is also the only choice left to save NASA’s Moon mission. So why is that? Is this actually feasible? Let’s dive in.
It’s been over three weeks since New Glenn exploded on the pad at Launch Complex 36 on May 28th. And we still don’t know exactly why.
It’s not that Blue Origin is hiding anything — even their own engineers don’t have a clear answer yet. Was it the BE-4 engines? The high-pressure COPV tanks? A leaking fuel valve? They’re investigating every possibility.
What we do know is this: the launch pad is badly damaged. New Glenn is grounded. Sure, CEO Dave Limp says they’re aiming for another launch before the end of the year, but right now that rocket isn’t going anywhere.
Now let me paint you a picture: Imagine NASA has a real emergency on the Moon — the Artemis crew needs urgent supplies or, God forbid, a rescue. They call Blue Origin and ask, “How soon can you launch?”
The answer right now? “Not today.”
SpaceX's new Starship Method to Land Blue Moon on the Moon Shocked NASA!
That’s the quiet problem nobody wants to say out loud. Blue Moon, Blue Origin’s lunar lander — NASA’s backup plan to SpaceX’s Starship — only has one rocket that can carry it: New Glenn. And New Glenn is sitting idle.
In spaceflight, you never rely on just one Plan A. So here’s the real question: What’s Plan B for Blue Moon? Is there any other rocket out there strong enough to launch it?
You’d think Falcon Heavy would be the obvious choice. It’s got a perfect 100% success rate and it’s currently the most powerful rocket flying commercially. But here’s the catch: Falcon Heavy’s payload fairing is only 5.2 meters wide. Blue Moon was custom-built for New Glenn’s big 7-meter fairing. That’s nearly a two-meter difference. You can’t just squeeze it in there. It’s like trying to shove a double-door refrigerator through a standard kitchen doorway — it physically doesn’t fit without redesigning the entire lander from the ground up.
SpaceX's new Starship Method to Land Blue Moon on the Moon Shocked NASA!
As NASA’s Admin Jared Isaacman said (3:24)“Uh you know, the the Mark 1, uh there's a lot of mass there and volume. So, getting that in the fairing of a vehicle and then being able to send it to the moon, I I think you're you know, you're you're in Falcon Heavy land. You're probably you could potentially be an expendable Falcon Heavy land.”
And even if you could make it fit, there’s the fuel problem. Falcon Heavy runs on RP-1 kerosene and liquid oxygen. Blue Moon needs liquid hydrogen, stored at minus 253 degrees Celsius. Converting SpaceX’s launch infrastructure to handle liquid hydrogen would take years and hundreds of millions of dollars. So Falcon Heavy is out.
Next up is Vulcan Centaur. It’s a little more promising because its upper stage already uses hydrolox — same fuel as Blue Moon. But here’s the kicker: its payload fairing still isn’t wide enough for Blue Moon’s base. And worse? Vulcan’s main engines are the BE-4 — the exact same engines now under investigation after the New Glenn explosion. If they find a fundamental problem with the BE-4, Vulcan gets grounded too.

===
Subcribe Alpha Tech: https://www.youtube.com/@alphatech4966/?sub_confirmation=1
===