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As much as I personally dislike Musk, Starship does not belong on that list. It is the largest and most powerful space vehicle humanity has ever launched successfully and landed! It is re-usable and can potentially carry up to 100 people or 300,000 lbs of cargo.
Nothing like that has ever been done before, and the advancements in science that will follow humanities expansion into space cannot be overstated.
100 people are, like, 19,000 lbs. Why the weight difference between 100 people and just cargo? Because of life support systems?
1 ton per person for living quarters, supplies, etc. I'm not sure if life support is part of that, and also not sure how exactly they settled on 1 ton.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship