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Which is why they are already planning to have entirely different landing legs for the moon and for mars.' What you're looking at now with Starship is just the prototype model. Its barebones and missing a lot of the features that the final model will have.

Hydroponics, nitrogen, sunlight, water... Creates both food and oxygen. Water can be harnessed by melting the ground water, which is already confirmed to exist. Also water can be reused almost indefinitely through filtration. Pretty much every drop of water on earth has already been through and...

An autonomous drone that runs on solar power doesn't need food, water, or O2... It's also entirely possible to send 12, 30, 100 Starships to Mars simultaneously for all supplies needed. There would also be regular shipments to-and-from Earth-Mars. If there are 27 Starships doing trips, you...

Hypothetically, an entire small self-contained plant that is fully autonomous could be deployed as cargo on the first successful landing on Mars. But to answer your question more succinctly, likely a team of suicidal astronauts who will carry out its construction and die on Mars, of which likely...

Because Starship isn't only going to other planets. It's also for "earth to earth" travel. It also needs to dock again on its return journey for resupply, and having it on chopsticks greatly reduces its turn-around time for re-use.