Philip Walden wrote:

Looking at the planned vehicles for the return to the moon, the
article(s) seemed to emphasize leverage of shuttle technology. For
example the use of SSMEs and SSRBs. However, only the CEV was described
as reusable.

Will the new systems also recover and reuse the boosters? If not, seems
like a waste of a good SSME which are supposed to be good for many
firings.


They did studies on the cost of recovering the SRBs and reusing them vs.
using new-build ones based on the actual costs encountered during the
Shuttle program, it was a bit cheaper to reuse them (I imagine that the
involved inspection process after each flight is fairly expensive), but
not all that much cheaper than using new-build ones.

Pat