"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
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The irony is he fell on is sword for nothing, since Boeing was
eliminated from the competition anyway!

This is all sad, really, because I personally believe that placing your
bet on the big orange rocket has far longer odds of winning than placing
your bet on distributed launch.

Jeff

I first misread your final paragraph as in support of SLS and it took me
aback.

But then I thought about it. If your "goal" is a flags and footprints
mission. Honestly, SLS is probably the way to go.
Overbuild a single-one off, spend lots of money on a barely marginal lander,
fly, land, get some rocks, come home and declare victory.

BUT, if you want anything sustainable, then yeah, any of the other options
are probably better.

In a sense, I think it's a set of competing goals. A certain person at 1600
Pennsylvania Ave wants a lunar landing in 2024. He doesn’t really care how
it's done. He's not a details man.
But, I think others, including many at NASA are starting to really move
towards a goal of a sustainable system.

So, Loverro I think was caught between both goals and suffered.


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