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)."

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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?

windows

[sreid]

it has windows, not a good sign