my name is mwd

NASA has just released it’s early concept pictures on how they’ll get people to the moon again in 2020. If you look at the concept pics, it looks awfully like roughly the same technique they used 35 years ago, perhaps a little bigger. I’m sure there’s nice technical reasons for it, but it’s a bit, well, underwhelming? In 50 years between the original and proposed new landings, you’d have though science/engineering would have come up with something better?

Of course, perhaps it has. I was told the saying at NASA these days for any new project is “better, faster, cheaper - pick two”, and in these days of budget cuts to NASA and an expectancy to produce results, I think I can guess which one is being dropped.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4261522.stm