NASA making strides to decommission the Space Shuttle Program
April 10, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/04/10/nasa.in.transition.ap/index.html
Looks like NASA is making further steps to finally decommission the aging space shuttle program in exchange for the Crew Exploration Vehicle. The CEV will be more modular and be launchable from a low earth orbit (NASA description here). This is probably the biggest change that NASA has undergone in the last 30+ years, let's just hope it works. Looks like Lockheed Martin and NG are the only two competietors left (albeit with a bevy of sub-contractors at their leash) after the last contract proposal downselect. At $104 Billion dollars the CEV contract is a pretty big prize.
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Susan | April 10, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Should LHM get the contract, would you potentially have involvement?
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thecontrary | April 11, 2006 at 2:54 am
Not really. The CEV is just a vehicle. Ground software of the GPS/Hubble kind that I’ve worked on is mission specific so I’d have to wait for LHM to win a mission contract using the CEV. Actually there isn’t anything about Hubble that is launch vehicle specific, since I write software for satellites not launch vehicles.