NASA a NEW direction! ????

Lets take the existing nasa budget and move the dollars around a bit.

First build a capsule to orbit system using a expendable booster. This would
take people orr cargo to LEO. ISS or other operations.

With a good program how long would this take?
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While this is going on we design a program for a visit to a asteroid thats
close by. Building a multi purpose lander, perhaps using a lunar module as a
rough blueprint.

Once the capsule system is up and running the shuttles are retired and the
money saved used for the asteroid mission, and a follow up one to the moon as a
precusor to mars. Moon mission coluld visit the farside and check out from a
distance one of the old apollo sites. Perhaps revisit the one thatr pilfered
the surveyor parts. Go back and saee what left of surveyor without damaging the
original landing site.

What do you all think?

The idea is to redirect the billions a year spent on shuttle to be spent on
other more interesting things.

Tho help fund it get sponsors. Pepsi to asteroid XXX Cokes mission to the
farside.