"ed kyle" wrote in message
om...
This time around, NASA doesn't have to spend so much on
boosters. Years of shuttle investment provide an existing
heavy-lift infrastructure. NASA's estimate for Shuttle-C
development would amount to about $3 billion today - a minor
fraction of the total program cost for a lunar program.
EELV, thanks to the U.S. Air Force, is pretty much ready to
go for CEV/LEO missions.

- Ed Kyle

Perhaps NASA wants to get away from the 'stigma' associated with STS? Two
failures, resulting in *all* U.S. space deaths...

Perhaps they want to try something new and considerably less expensive like
the Delta IV.

--
Alan Erskine
We can get people to the Moon in five years,
not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge