i'm still trying to figure out why we would need to land on the moon on a certain "day" of the lunar "day". i can understand the problems with rendezvous in LEO, which would limit things somewhat, but not to the extent that is being claimed here.
with all the stuff we'll have orbiting around the moon by then, i'd think we'd be able to land pretty much anywhere, anytime, and not need a direct "line of sight" for communications back to earth. some of those satellites could be used as communications relays- like the Mars rovers use the satellites around Mars to communicate with earth.
if there are delays, we just move the landing sight "over" an appropriate distance to land at the optimal time in the lunar "day". we'd even be able to check out the "dark side of the moon" and see what we never get to see from earth.
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