Analysis: Is It Time to Man-Rate EELV For Moon/Mars Program?

 

 

Less than a year ago, the final report of NASA's sweeping Exploration Systems Architecture study squashed the idea of using technology developed under the U.S. Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program on the agency's moon/Mars Cargo Launch Vehicle. "No RS-68-powered variant of an...

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