New manned Moon lander is named "Altair".

Jochem Huhmann wrote:

I still have the suspicion that the DoD had some spiffy ideas what to do
with a launcher capable of 60t of payload and this was the sole reason
for Bush to talk of going to the Moon and Mars...


That's the same thing I think.
That space-based ABM concept and the general militarization of space
were ideas that were near and dear to the hearts of the neocons in the
Bush White House, and I suspect that the new boosters were somehow
related to that.

Pat