[Billthedrill]

The idea of building spaceships at the bottom of a gravity well is insane. Better to build such things in Lunar orbit.

Yep. The limitation on the proposed Mars mission that would make it one-way is in large part the fact that it has to escape from the Earth.

Plus the ships wouldn't have to have beer transported to them from the Earth. They'd only have to worry about food and other inessentials.

[tet68]

They’d only have to worry about food and other inessentials.

Right, freeze dried Beer and nachos.