The mostly spherical one million ton spacecraft called the Texas was launched by lasers heating the heat exchangers that made up the craft's underside. The liquid Tritium fuel, half the ship's mass, expelling under pressure from its tanks and out its engines making the Fuel run between Tritium plants on the Moon, and a launch/landing site a hundred kilometres from anywhere. It only sold ten percent of its tank load, the rest was necessary just to make the round trip.
It could however carry four identical cargo loads of one hundred tons total slotted between its engine exhausts. And that on occasion included passengers headed one way to the Moon.
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