You are looking at this whole thing the wrong way.
If you plan to build bases on the Moon and keep a long term manned Moonbase there you need those things Bell mentions. This will push the cost up beyond the money this plan gives to the task. I said this long ago. It needs more money sooner.
The 14 day idea is an unsustainable one. Costs would raise and in short order the program would either be scaled back to a few visits to the Moon (read falg and footprints) or complete cancellation.
Mars has not been the primary goal of this project from the get go it is an afterthought and could make costs rise even worse being an add on that way. But you drop Mars and only do the Moon a few times and it will end up being the reason we never* send humans to Mars (*within our life times).
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re: Eye opener
The whole thread (24 posts)
- Jeff Bell's pessimistic outlook for "Plan Bush"
- Interesting debate debunking Bell's views
- Fact and fiction
- You post made me remember something I thought about a few months ago
- re: Eye opener