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More Alternatives To ESAS

Over at NASASpaceflight.com. The Italian proposal is quite intriguing (I'm guessing that some of the people involved were the same ones teamed with Boeing on CE&R), and the Lockmart proposal seems better as well. Of course, from an affordability and sustainability standpoint, it's hard to do worse than ESAS.

Posted by Rand Simberg at November 06, 2006 05:51 AM
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If the effort is commercial, I favor EML-1 & EML-2 transfer stations and fully re-useable lunar landers fueled with lunar LOX and terrestrial fuel (methane, H2, propane, kerosene -- whatever works best).

NASA? A NASA operated L point transfer station would set back the commercial opening of the Moon by decades.

Posted by Bill White at November 6, 2006 05:56 AM

eml-2 allows anytime anywhere flights to the lunar surface or back and requires lower delta vee than eml-1.

Posted by mz at November 6, 2006 06:00 PM


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