Lockheed Martin unveils Space Shuttle replacement

Vegan Bob writes "Lockheed Martin released its proposal for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) in a recent Popular Mechanics article. NASA will choose this vehicle scematic or opt for the yet-released Northrop Grumman design in 2008. The CEV will replace the Space Shuttle program, and will eventually go to the moon (between 2015 and 2020)."

Comments

Re:One or two questions related to these articles:

[Colin Smith]

"In short: Just what, exactly, is going on here?"

NASA have to find some way to spend $16,000,000,000. It's not as if you could find any another way to spend that kind of money on space is it?

Re:That Old Rock

[fallendove]

'cause there isn't much of a point landing on the moon again.

windows

[sreid]

it has windows, not a good sign

Dildo

[hardcorebuttsecks]

The new space shuttle should be a giant dildo, so I can shove it up my ass!

Maybe roll them in a ball

[Anonymous Coward]

There be no such thing as a "scematic", maybe scheme would have been a better word. If you ment schematic then I don't know how Nasa is going to fly around a bunch of paper wiring diagrams.

Turn left at the next mirage.

Eeeewwww! Why??

[rsax]

They're using Windows!!

nixon canned it, inflation killed it.

[cheekyboy]

1. nixon canned it because he let the gold standard
come back, ie gold was legal again and free for market finance.

2. this caused uber inflation, etc.. etc..

3. the soviets made a secret deal for usa to go, and soviets didnt need to go there, as they alredy did with robotic rovers FIRST!!

Listen guys, if us wont release ALL SECRETS re JFK, then darn, do you really think they will ever release any ww2 secrets, moon secrets etc...? These guys in charge dont care for history and keeping things open, they are greedy pricks that just want stuff for their own sake no matter how it ruins humanity because to them, "if your not with us, your against us"

Re:One or two questions related to these articles:

[grumpygrodyguy]

In short: Just what, exactly, is going on here?

George W. Bush is the answer you're looking for. Mismanagement starts at the top. And the guy at the top was elected by the folks at the bottom. The irony never quits in the good 'ol U.S. of A-holes.

Leaked CEV Photos

[s-orbital]

I am privy to some leaked images of Lockheed's CEV prototype. The images are posted on this website: http://www.uline.com/Browse_Listing_409.asp
If someone asks, you didn't hear about this from me.

Ahhh, the words I love hear ...

[SengirV]

Low Earth orbit - Nothing gets hunaity excited like knowing the jets we fly are only a couple dozen miles away from our manned space missions. YAWN!!!!!