Snidely wrote:
Any comments?

Their plan involves a capsule ride to a deep-space ion-drive ship,
used in a kind of powered-shuttler scheme, and to support EV tasks
with pods. Test flight would be to an orbit above the lunar south
pole to control a fleet of robotic explorers.


I suppose that's an interesting 'test'. But robotic lunar exploration is just
as easily accomplished from Earth as it is from an "ion-drive ship". And
likely for a whole lot less $$$ and for a lot longer period of time.

Dave