Jeff Findley wrote:
"gaetanomarano" wrote in message
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NASA seems BELIEVE that COTS companies will succeed (in their effort
to develop, build and launch low cost rockets and capsules) since has
already given them $500M of funds, has opened the doors of its
research centers, has included the COTS service in its flights
manifest and will soon allow the COTS companies (first SpaceX) to
launch their rockets from KSC, so... Why don't MERGE (both) ESAS and
COTS vehicles (also) for moon missions?

my new idea/proposal he
http://www.gaetanomarano.it/articles/029aresX.html

Dude, we're talking Son of Frankenstein here!

Sticking the CEV upside down in the stack is really silly. If the stack
goes *boom*, the crew is toast.

Stick it on top, along with its associated escape tower, just like the
Apollo CSM.

You also ignore that the crawlers and MLP's can't handle the weight of what
you propose (this is from memory).

Why not just put some lightweight capsules on both EELVs, and then give
COTS some money to beat those numbers, that should be pretty damn easy.

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