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Northrop Grumman-Boeing team shows Space Shuttle successor.(AEROSPACE)
Advanced Materials & Processes, December, 2005
A Northrop Grumman/ Boeing team has unveiled its plans to design and build NASA's proposed Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), a modular space system intended to carry humans to the International Space Station by 2012 and back to the moon by 2018. The CEV comprises a crew module that builds on NASA's Apollo spacecraft, a service module and a launch-abort system.
It is designed to be carried into space aboard a shuttle-derived launch vehicle--a rocket based on the solid rocket booster technology that powers the early phases of current shuttle flights. The CEV will be produced both as a crewed space transportation system and as an un-crewed space vehicle capable of transporting cargo to and from the International Space Station. NASA expects to select a CEV prime...
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