On Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:06:22 PM UTC-4, William Mook wrote:
PS: Recommend you move this topic to a new thread. It has little to no bearing on the OP.

A discussion of improved propulsion technology that makes space travel
possible is directly relevant to this topic!

The OP was about using the - SLS - and it's derivative technology to get a return to the moon by the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing which will be in July 2019.

What you are proposing goes way beyond that. But seriously, I find it curious that as a matter of practice you'd find in preferable to have this discussion buried deep within a thread that starts off on a completely different topic that after a few postings, for those not interested in the SLS or its possible spin-offs, would likely skip and/or kill the remainder of the thread in their newsreader, hence never seeing *any* of what you propose here at all!

Seems like an odd choice to me. Hence my suggestion. But, it's your choice, whatever....

Dave