CEV Phase II RFP Released

NASA Refines Design for Crew Exploration Vehicle

“NASA’s Constellation Program is making progress toward selecting a prime contractor to design, develop and build the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), America’s first new human spacecraft in 30 years.”

Reader comment: Actually, wouldn’t SpaceShipOne be America’s first new spacecraft in so many years?

X-38 Fact Sheet, DFRC

“The wingless CRV, when operational, would be the first reusable human spacecraft to be built in more than two decades.”

Editor’s note: How quickly NASA forgets its own hype. Indeed, it does so again and again:

Reader comment: “With regard to the X-38 quote: Space Shuttle Endeavour was delivered in 1991.”