It just keeps getting me...
How much the so-called new manned Moon mission plans are so much like good ol' Apollo,
even if they can carry a few more astronauts for a longer period of time and the sapcecraft are 3 times larger.
And what gets me about this? If we had stuck with some of the original post-Apollo plans, we might have lunar and Mars bases by now doing all kinds of science and research, plus making it that much easier to explore even deeper into the Sol system. Why do you think from the perspective of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey it did not seem premature that a manned mission to Jupiter and/or Saturn by the year 2001.
Now we are just reinventing the wheel 40 years later.