[Yossarian]

Part of me is encouraged that NASA seems to be stressing crew safety as a primary goal of their new manned launch systems - but I am also distressed that it is all based on existing technology. There doesn't seem to be any new major activity going on advanced propulsion systems and/or SSTO platforms.

Anyone have any recent news on the latter?

[RightWhale]

spacedaily.com

“There is no desire to recreate the Apollo hardware, we can do much better today, but rather we want to use the experiences of the Apollo era to guide and focus attention to solving basic problems with new technologies. What worked and what didn’t, what would the Apollo crew do differently, and how have our goals for lunar exploration changed.”

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All new.