Why 13 years?

It seems to me that the new concept SDHLV and the "stick" does not
contain any significant new development. Just a repackaging of existing
hardware and technologies. What are NASA and contractors going to do
for 13 years? I would want to see it all happen in the next three years
or maybe five.

We have seen too many fancy plans with great computer graphics and
simulated space dockings. We have seen too many pomises that were not
kept.

If it were up to me I would just put a newly designed vehicle into the
shuttle and go to the moon with it. This new vehicle (we could call it
ZML -Zoltan's Moon Lander) would consist of two halves, both capable of
life support for the crew. One half would be destined for Moon orbit
the other for landing. Just like the Apollo.

Of course the whole exercise seems pointless if all we do is repeat
apollo. We have to build a moon base that is useful for something. For
example fuelling and launching rockets to the solar system using
materials that are mined on the moon.

We always talk about all the new development that has happened since
apollo. There haven't been any. We have been just playing video games.
We have been building faster and less reliable microprocessors and
inventing ways to waste cpu time.

For the record I support SDHLV-Stick

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