Posted by tourdemars to Crew Exploration Vehicle at December 3, 2004 12:33 PM

Sending astronauts once again to the moon — and one day to Mars — will require another giant leap for NASA. But the space agency took one of its first steps toward that objective recently with the help of a report from a committee chaired by Donald Fraser, director of the BU Photonics Center. The National Research Council (NRC) committee was commissioned by NASA to assess the relative merits of four possible systems integration approaches being proposed for Project Constellation, the program to build the crew exploration vehicle (CEV) and related exploration systems necessary to fulfill President George Bush’s ambitious vision for space travel