CEV Project Targets December 2008 Abort Test
Credit: NASA
NASA is leaning strongly toward early tests of its planned Crew Exploration Vehicle on converted Peacekeeper ICBMs, using recycled motors from the late-Cold War missiles to wring out the new vehicle's launch abort system and add some data points to the computer models that will drive its design. A...
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