NASA Narrows Field for CEV Competitors - AW&ST

NASA Narrows Field for CEV Competitors
Aviation Week & Space Technology 09/26/05
author: Frank Morring, Jr.

Contractors bidding to replace the space shuttle fleet must stuff their big ideas into a ballistic capsule with only three times the volume of the Apollo command module.

Like that 1960s-vintage capsule, the planned Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) will sustain a crew as it travels to and from the Moon. But it must also convey the first Mars explorers on the last leg of their trip back to Earth someday, and it will start its career shuttling crew and pressurized cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).

Back to the good old Days I guess...


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