2012 NASA CLV Flight Faces Challenges

Credit: NASA/MSFC
NASA still hopes to launch its space shuttle replacement--the Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV)--with a human crew by 2012, but before it does, it must address some of the same technical problems faced by developers of the Saturn V Moon rocket. One of the biggest challenges is finding a way to balance the...

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