A NASA safety panel says filling a Starship for the Moon could take around 22 flights. Elon Musk says 6 to 8. That is not a rounding error — it is two different futures for what deep-space flight costs. The most important number in the Mars business this week was not a valuation or a launch date. It was a count of gas-station runs. On Thursday, October 22, NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel held its quarterly public meeting, and panel member Charlie Precourt — a former NA