Fixation on modern implementation of Apollo, go there as a stunt and never come back. Probably they're specifically talking about some kind of transfer vehicle

Fixation on modern implementation of Apollo, go there as a stunt and never come back. Probably they're specifically talking about some kind of transfer vehicle doing a Hohmann transfer orbit. The idea of sending very small resupply and spare part payloads on a non-Hohmann likely very expensive trajectory is interesting, but it'll never work as a substantial fraction of the mass of the ship, like food will have to be. So you could use the entire delta-V of a major booster to deliver a spare circuitboard to a vehicle 3/4 of the way to Mars but significant masses of food won't work. Another problem is organizational inertia, if a Hohmann transfer takes 600 days or whatever and a major international mission takes 10 years of administrative planning, then if a super emergency resupply is required on day 400, it won't arrive until 3400, in other words a bit too late to matter. So technically you could waste a normally 20 thousand pound booster on a 10 pound emergency payload of circuit boards and med supplies, but organizationally "we" are too slow to do it.