"Kaido Kert" wrote in message
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Build them bigger and more capable than your EELV payload shroud ever
would
allow. Load them with tons of in-situ produced rocket fuel ( or at least
the
oxidiser ). Test novel nuclear propulsion methods for them, without
environmentalists crying bloody murder.

Let's see, and this becomes cheaper HOW exactly?

Remember, just to develop the industrial base on the Moon to make this
possible you're going to have to have cheap launch from here on Earth. Once
you have that, you just build things here in existing factories and use EOR
to build them as big as you want.

Sure, someday we'll be launching from the Moon, but not for a LONG time.


-kert