Comment by XorNot

Also all those missions can be unmanned. If you want to get good at something then you do it a lot.

The only question is whether the cost of flying all those missions would be prohibitive: by the stated goals, starship should be able to do the refueling missions cheaper then an SLS launch.

Obviously if it can't then it's failed, but the point of it is cheap heavy lift to LEO which is very obviously quite valuable.

Building a big specialty rocket to get to the moon is waste.