Marvin the Martian wrote:

It avoids having to develop a true heavy lift capability. You can make
small man rated rockets to lift people; and larger, higher g non-man
rated rockets for freight.

In some drug addled world where rocket costs scale with size and non
man rated boosters sufficiently reliable to trust with irreplacable
billion dollar cargoes are noticeably cheaper per lb of cargo
delivered than man rated rockets, sure.

But we don't live in that world.

D.
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