Posted by jburk to Crew Exploration Vehicle at October 14, 2005 11:29 PM

A Northrop Grumman-Boeing team today 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.