Well, the Swedes' ability to incorporate their flatpack technology into any product would probably be a benefit to the US moon program. They can make a 400 square foot apartment seem livable, why not a lunar lander?
The bottom half of the Ares I (based on the shuttle SRB's) will be recovered and reused. The top half will get chucked.
Even if they were one-shots, I think it'd be cheaper to build a whole bunch and use them then try to maintain three or four. It costs a lot of money to refurbish the shuttle between flights.
I look forward to reading these. It's nice that these are online and free to download.
Reading these comments, it sounds like people (in general, not just the commentors) just don't get it. The goals are there. The adventure is there. They're designing the systems now. What's missing? Why aren't people (again, in general) more excited about human spaceflight?
