>>44347
>Starship is going to have 33 engines in the first stage

Just because they want to use same engine that they already got (they have none others anyway). All Musk enterprise is about cheapness and quantity, not about best design in technology terms.

It is not really good to compare SpaceX with past NASA, because their goals are completely different. NASA had goal to get onto Moon, Musk want to get at profitable rockets mostly for commercial purposes on Earth orbit. Starship is mostly about space tourism - original goal was about 100 people to orbit - there were no crafts with that size in past. Moon/Mars expedition concept is different, it is a way for Musk to get free PR plus money from US state.

If project will succeed, maybe it would be adapted as Mars craft, but main goal is purely commercial and practical now.

>>44348
>where some egghead from NASA claimed they cannot into moonlanding anymore because those people who handmade those stuff aren't around anymore. So essentially they do not have anybody who could build a fugging rocket

This. You can't rebuild Saturn because there are no tools and materials from 60s, and using new tools and materials requires at least big redesign and recalculation of everything. Or you need to recreate full production chain for old things, that is possible but economically inefficient.