Is Elon Musk really and truly following in the footsteps of legendary space pioneer Werner von Braun?

Legendary space and rocket pioneer Werner von Braun was truly a striking combination of idealism and opportunism. Although the concept of the liquid fueled rocket was originally conceived of by Russian schoolteacher Immanuel Velikovsky in the late nineteenth century, and the first actual liquid fueled rocket launch occurred in 1926, created by American university professor Robert Goddard, it was certainly Werner von Braun who perfected the technology and made it a viable means of travelling in outer space, and to the Moon. It was during the Second World War that von Braun used the Nazi war machine to rapidly develop a totally new technology to go around all possible Allied war defenses -- the V2 rocket. But, it was the V2 rocket that became the first man-made object to pass beyond the world's atmosphere and into outer space, opening the possibility of space travel. And, it was von Braun who went on to develop the Saturn V rocket that did actually propel astronauts to the Moon in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Indeed, to the this very day, von Braun's Saturn V rocket remains essentially the largest liquid fueled rocket ever built, NASA's current SLS rocket being only slightly larger, and effectively having the same practical limitations, which may represent the ultimate limitations of this particular technology. Indeed, Elon Musk's much vaunted "Starship" is only about half the size of von Braun's Saturn V, or NASA's SLS, and has only half the fuel capacity. Elon's "Starship" could not even take astronauts to the Moon, let alone Mars or the Stars. Of course, Elon Musk says all that's needed is to "refuel" the "Starship" in earth orbit -- at the mere cost of 100 billion dollars to put 1200 tons of rocket fuel into earth orbit! While the thousands of V2 rockets launched primarily on Great Britain resulted in almost 10,000 civilian and military deaths, this same technology provided the basis for the entire NASA space program. Werner von Braun is reported to have both commiserated with his war-time secretary over the death toll from the V2 program, and to have exchanged champagne toasts with his fellow rocket pioneers over its success on the same day! Von Braun never deviated from his childhood desire to send men to the Moon, even during the height of the Second World War, even though he became a Nazi Party member and a member of the much feared SS. He continued to insist that liquid fueled rockets should be used for space travel, and not military applications. He even openly opposed Nazi war efforts and the war itself. Finally, the Nazis put von Braun into prison for a short time, until his good friend, armaments minister Albert Speer, vouched for him, and von Braun agreed to never utter anti-Nazi sentiments again. Of course, this prison sentence stood von Braun in very good stead following the Allied victory, allowing him to portray himself as an opponent to the Nazi regime, and quite possibly freeing him from the risk of a war crimes trial, despite the enormous damage his work had done -- including thousands of slave labor deaths at the factories he managed at Peenemünde! Because Werner von Braun never let anything distract him from his ultimate goals -- not money, not politics, not external pressures, nothing. He never left anything to chance, never allowed himself to be rushed, and always proceeded in a rigidly rational fashion. He even developed his own analogy and theory of why distractions and pressures always caused "crash" programs to fail -- von Braun felt it was like a man believing that the mere fact that he could keep nine women pregnant all the time absolutely guaranteed that he would be a happy new father every month like clockwork, forever! Isn't it clear, that this theory of von Braun's is quite literally the inspiration for all of Elon Musk's life and work?