http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/01/sls-capability-europa-lander-capability-enceladus-sample-return/
With the discovery of water plumes on Ceres, could a mission be proposed to land and explore it using SLS hardware? The delta v is similar to what was needed for a moon mission during the Apollo Era.
Update:
An SLS block 0 configuration, which is the most basic one, could deliver an Apollo Era type lunar module ascent stage to the surface of Ceres. Question is: does anybody want to do this?
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