Shorter Starship?

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Author: Space Zone

Description:

       “Starship is too tall—there’s no way it can land on the Moon!” That’s        something you hear a lot from critics of the Starship program.

There's a few familiar things about this video. Is it the same? Maybe not, but a side-by-side comparison can be made from this post. I'll embed the most recent below:



Now for the original.

10/24/25:

 

A shorter Starship may not be a SpaceX idea. All the same, I like the idea. I even speculated on such a proposition myself.

 

So here's a video that discusses it, but with a lot of added filler at the beginning. I skipped that, and got to the point.

 

 

 

 

Are they the same? Quick update: Nope, not the same. But there's one very similar element---the shorter mini-Starship.