My take on it is the Apollo design was a proven work horse,
don't fix something that works is my belief. The Shuttle in all
it's fancy spaceplane looks and romance was a toy with way too
many problems. I love going back to basics , only with 21st century
technology and material plugged into it.

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Apollo 2 Will Take Real Money To Emulate The Original

Many critics oppose this project because it "looks just like Apollo", i.e. doesn't involve fancy winged spaceplanes or other radically new technology. These people are wrong. The real problem with the ESAS architecture is that it isn't enough like Apollo. It tries to achieve a major increase in mission capability with spacecraft and boosters that are too heavy, too expensive to develop, and too expensive to operate.

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-05zzy.html