I think you vastly under rate the issue involved in upgrading to humans on board. There are redundancies and increase reliability issues that add weight to the launch vehicle. Please don't bother pointing out the STS and it's issues.
There are other problems not least is there is no growth capacity in the EELV. You would have to ask Larry or Tom about the EELV's throw and the mass of the CEV.
You have to figure in extra mass for growth of the system. Look at the LM and it's weight problems. We simply don't have the kind of money now to throw at problems they had back in the Apollo Era.
They had maybe 4 different spacesuit "programs" attempting to solve the surface suit problems for Apollo. This isn't going to happen this time around there is no money for it.
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- I'm shocked!
- I get the same feeling reading Bell...
- Tens of Billion$ Later...
- re: I'm shocked!
- I like Bell's analysis too
- Is Bell right that the redesigned CEV can be boosted with a Delta 4 or Atlas 5?
- re: I like Bell's analysis too