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So in the early 1960s NASA was seriously considering a series of *very* heavy lifting bodies with the ability to put up hundreds of thousands of kilograms/hundreds of Megagrams in one shot, in some cases these are even SSTO, or single stage to orbit. Nova 8L actually came close to being built, the main reason it was not was the need for building new factories to support the program (its engines were simply too big!) while the Saturn V could be manufactured from existing infrastructure. Suppose the super-heavies were built - how does this change space during the Space Race and afterwards? Do we see more commercialization of space sooner if it becomes literally possible to put almost 600kg of mass into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) or tens of thousands of kilograms in mass to the moon or elsewhere in one shot?
*Note: 1 Mg = 1 Megagram = 1000 kg; ISS approximate mass fully assembled: 450 Mg
*TLI = Translunar Injection (What goes to the moon)
*Mass that can reach Escape Velocity is roughly 65-70% that of mass capable of TLI