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	Crew Exploration Vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To allow the CEV to service the International Space Station, it will use a simplified version of the Russian-developed docking ring currently in use on the remaining Shuttle fleet, but with the ability of being discarded upon the ending of the mission.
		The CEV service module is identical in shape (but not in size) to its Apollo predecessor, but unlike the Apollo SM, the new CEV SM, which will be shorter in height, will feature a pair of deployable Soyuz-like solar panels, eliminating the need to carry fuel cells and hydrogen tanks.
		Lockheed Martin's CEV design is in many ways a derivative of their OSP [5]; therefore it is possible that the Boeing CEV is a capsule rather than a lifting body or plane design.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crew_Exploration_Vehicle (4384 words)

	WEB EXCLUSIVE CEV vs. Apollo - Popular Science
		Yet CEV will be only 10 to 15 percent heavier, because it will be made from newer materials such as carbon composites and aluminum alloys.
		CEV will carry more fuel than Apollo, so astronauts will be able to go anywhere on the face of the moon.
		CEV’s computers will be much more powerful than Apollo’s, enabling all four astronauts to descend to the moon’s surface while their spaceship orbits in autopilot mode.
	www.popsci.com /popsci/aviationspace/88582d0cef979010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html (257 words)

	CEV
		The CEV would be launched into earth orbit by the Crew Launch Vehicle, a shuttle-derived two-stage rocket consisting of a single Shuttle RSRM solid booster as the first stage and a new second stage, 5.5 m in diameter, using Lox/LH2 propellants and powered by a single SSME.
		The CEV was downgraded to under 25 tonnes and four crew by September 2005, putting it within the capability of heavy-lift versions of the EELV's.
		The CEV would land in the continental United States, and to do this it would be necessary for NASA to utilize a skip-entry technique perfected by the Russians for their abortive manned lunar program in the 1960's.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/cev.htm (3385 words)

	CEV Policy and Research
		CEV’s response welcomes the ambitious nature of the programmes, however, it points out the lack of recognition, in the guidelines, for the networks and associations active in the volunteering sector.
		CEV's Manifesto for Volunteering in Europe 2003 explains why volunteers matter, why volunteerism is an important component of the Lisbon strategy, and urges EU and national government alike to support the implementation of recommendations made within the United Nations Follow-Up Resolution to the International Year of Volunteers 2001.
		CEV welcomes the Communication as a very clear and useful statement of the current position, and particularly welcomes the very clear acknowledgement of the range, scale and depth of the contribution of voluntary action to the social economy in Europe.
	www.cev.be /policyandresearch.htm (1479 words)

	M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle (CEV)
		DESCRIPTION: The M728 CEV is a full-tracked armored vehicle which consists of a basic M60A1 tank with a hydraulically operated debris blade, a 165mm turret mounted demolition gun, a retractable boom and a winch.
		Attached to a M728 CEV or M60 tank via a Dozer Kit, the Mine Clearing Rake also utilizes an aluminum skid shoe, which protrudes from the front of the tines and allows the rake to maintain a consistent plowing.
		During Operation Desert Storm the CEV proved unable to manoeuvre with the heavy force due to the inability of the M60 chassis and power train to keep pace with the MIA1.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/m728.htm (663 words)

	Executive Summary (Introduction-CEV): NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study Final Report (DRAFT) October 2005 \| ...
		Three main parachutes slow the CEV CM to a steady-state sink rate of 7.3 m/s (24 ft/s), and, prior to touchdown, the ablative aft heat shield is jettisoned and four Kevlar airbags are deployed for soft landing.
		The CEV CM operates at a nominal internal pressure of 65.5 kPa (9.5 psia) with 30 percent oxygen composition for lunar missions, although the pressure vessel structure is designed for a maximum pressure of 101.3 kPa (14.7 psia).
		A larger CEV was considered in Cycle 2 which grew the outer diameter to 5.5 m and reduced the sidewall angles to 25 degrees.
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewsr.html?pid=19067 (4658 words)

	Contemporary English Version
		The CEV project was apparently modelled after the process followed in missionary Bible translation projects undertaken by ABS employees in undeveloped countries, where simple draft translations (often based upon simple English versions like the CEV) are gradually improved by ABS consultants who compare the work with the original language texts.
		The CEV is very careful to steer readers away from the "sexist" interpretations found in all English Bibles prior to their generation.
		The CEV also makes an attempt to tone down the anti-Judaism of the New Testament by avoiding the word "Jews" wherever it is used in reference to opponents of Jesus.
	www.bible-researcher.com /cev.html (5603 words)

	Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV)
		CEV will serve as the central human space-transportation system within NASA's Project Constellation, a broader architecture of human and robotic space systems that will be required to ferry astronauts to the Moon and beyond.
		The CEV was to be capable of supporting human life from launch on the earth surface through mission complete on earth surface during a maximum CEV crewed mission duration of 16 days.
		Acceleration of the CEV program would be accomplished by deferring other elements of the Exploration Systems Research and Technology plan not required for the CEV or for the early phases of human return to the Moon.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/systems/cev.htm (2557 words)

	CEV Boeing
		For single-launch earth orbit missions the mission module would be stowed beneath the CEV during launch, and docked to the CEV capsule using a transposition-and-dock maneuver after the spacecraft was put into earth orbit.
		The CEV without the mission module would have a nominal total mass of 20 tonnes, with the Service Module having a mass fraction of 34.7% and burning liquid oxygen/methane propellants.
		CEV: 26 tonnes maximum total mass, with a 5-tonne mission module, 6.5 tonne re-entry vehicle, and 14.5 tonne service module with 9500 kg of lox/methane propellants.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/cevoeing.htm (1011 words)

	CEV Home
		CEV launched its new manifesto in the European Parliament on 28 March 2006 on the kind invitation of MEP Jo Leinen.
		The European Commission has retained under the Grundtvig scheme a CEV pre-proposal to organise together with 18 partners CEV is planning to organise a conference on the mutual recognition by different stakeholders such as business, formal education and volunteer organisations of volunteer experiences and skills and competences learned through volunteering.
		CEV is a partner in the Grundtvig project ELLA led by the Diakonie Westfalen, Germany.
	www.cev.be (1128 words)

	CEV
		The Draper-MIT CEV proposal was an 8-tonne integral ballistic capsule.
		SAIC's notional CEV was a Soyuz-shaped aeroshell, enclosing a common pressurized module, and accomodating a crew of four.
		The final Spacehab CEV concept was a three-module spacecraft using a slightly enlarged Apollo command module for return of the crew to earth.
	www.astronautix.com /craftfam/cev.htm (2560 words)

	t/Space Offers an Option for Closing Shuttle, CEV Gap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin vice president and CEV program manager, said in a May 3 interview they have a cooperative relationship with t/Space and are poised to take advantage of the CXV system should it come to pass.
		A senior official with one company that has been studying CEV concepts for NASA said the agency ought to promise to buy services that meet its specifications and then let the market decide which company has what it takes to win that business.
		With the new desire to speed up the CEV so that it is both a lunar vehicle and an Earth-to-orbit-service-the-space-station vehicle, they're walking a slippery slope," Gump said.
	www.space.com /spacenews/businessmonday_050509.html (1735 words)

	Executive Summary (Introduction): NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study Final Report (DRAFT) October 2005 \| Mars ...
		In March 2004, a CEV Request for Proposals (RFP) was released to industry despite the lack of a firm set of requirements or a preferred architecture approach for returning humans to the Moon.
		He established a goal for the CEV to begin operation in 2011 and to be capable of ferrying crew and cargo to and from the ISS.
		The effects of a CEV mission to the ISS were examined in detail, including docking and berthing approaches and the use of the CEV as a cargo transport and return vehicle.
	www.marstoday.com /news/viewsr.html?pid=19066 (4468 words)

	CEV: The Last Battlestar?
		The LockMart CEV is laden with a variety of weighty systems that Apollo somehow got along without: wings, airbags, super-expensive titanium structure, an absurdly thin "Orbital Debris Shield", reusable RCC thermal protection, "active thermal control", elevons driven by huge electric motors, even a "Fire Depression System".
		The CEV provides crew habitation from launch to lunar orbit and return to the Earth surface, including aborts during Earth ascent.
		A clear example of this is that the CEV is the only one of the four distinct spacecraft that is now in preliminary development — the other three are still only artist's concepts.
	www.space-travel.com /news/oped-05zl.html (3530 words)

	Northrop Grumman Corporation - Defining the Future
		The CEV will be produced both as a crewed space transportation system and as an uncrewed space vehicle capable of transporting cargo to and from the International Space Station.
		While similar in shape to the Apollo spacecraft that carried astronauts to the moon in the late '60s and early '70s, the new CEV is a quantum leap forward in terms of performance, reliability and on-orbit mission capability.
		-- CEV will be able to operate as an autonomous spacecraft orbiting the moon for up to six months while its crew of four descends to the lunar surface in the lunar lander.
	www.irconnect.com /noc/press/pages/news_releases.mhtml?d=87722 (909 words)

	NASA - NASA Awards Crew Exploration Vehicle Contracts
		Originally, the selection of a single industry team was planned for 2008, but to reduce or eliminate the time between the Shuttle's retirement in 2010 and the first CEV flight, the selection is planned for early 2006.
		The CEV is expected to carry up to six astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit soon after the Space Shuttle is retired in 2010, and then on to the moon as early as 2015.
		The CEV is a key element of the nation's Vision for Space Exploration, which returns human explorers to the moon, Mars, and beyond.
	www.nasa.gov /home/hqnews/2005/jul/HQ_C05_q_CEV_Contracts.html (305 words)

	CEV Join up
		The European Volunteer Centre (CEV) is the European Association of Volunteer Centres.
		As partners of CEV can be accepted any stakeholder that subscribe to the aims and objectives of CEV and that supports our activities in the framework of our work programme.
		Associate (non-voting) members of CEV are those local, regional, national or international organisations that, for example, develop and/or promote volunteering in a specialised field e.g.
	www.cev.be /joincev.htm (301 words)

	News - The Mars Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In short, developing a CEV that is too heavy for the HLV to launch to the Moon and direct return back would be a huge mistake.
		The funds saved by reducing the size and cost of the CEV could be used to start HLV development immediately, which would save further funds, since early deployment of the HLV would allow space station construction to be completed sooner, allowing early retirement of the $4 billion per year Space Shuttle.
		The savings in the CEV program thus obtained can be used to launch the HLV program immediately, and together the CEV and HLV would allow early retirement of the Space Shuttle, with massive savings to the taxpayer resulting.
	www.marssociety.org /news/2005/0704.asp (1035 words)

	CNN.com - CEV vs. Apollo - Mar 3, 2006
		Size: The four-person CEV will be 18 feet in diameter, compared with 12.8 feet for the cramped three-person Apollo capsule.
		Range: CEV will carry more fuel than Apollo, so astronauts will be able to go anywhere on the face of the moon.
		Controls: CEV's computers will be much more powerful than Apollo's, enabling all four astronauts to descend to the moon's surface while their spaceship orbits in autopilot mode.
	www.cnn.com /2006/TECH/space/03/03/cev.vs.apollo (345 words)

	NASA's New CEV Launcher to Maximize Use of Space Shuttle Components \| SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
		For manned CEV flights, the series of in-line booster configurations included four and five segment SRBs derived from the existing space shuttle configuration; a series of shuttle External Tank-derived "in-line" launchers, and a pair of large heavy lift shuttle-derived manned in-line vehicles.
		Planners designing the CEV launch system hoped to avoid most of the shuttle's safety issues by a simplified vehicle architecture that uses many of the same shuttle booster components but uses them in a different more robust launcher architecture.
		For the CEV crew to escape a launch abort, only the part of the CEV containing the flight crew would be explosively detached from the remainder of the CEV/launcher.
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewnews.html?id=1055 (3449 words)

	SPACE.com -- Lockheed to Assemble CEV in Florida if Chosen by NASA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) in Florida if selected by the space agency as prime contractor for the multibillion-dollar space shuttle-replacement project later this year.
		locating CEV work in the state that is awaiting approval by the state legislature.
		The CEV work would provide 300-400 jobs, helping Florida offset job losses as the space shuttle program winds down in the years ahead, Karas said.
	space.com /news/060222_lockheed_cev_florida.html (602 words)

	Glossary - NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle, SOL NNT05AA01J, Attachment J-6 \| SpaceRef - Space News as it Happens
		CEV Acquisition Strategy Post-Phase 2 - This is both the initial operations phase and the spiral 3 upgrade phase for the CEV.
		CEV System Flight Tests - Operating flight tests during the development phase used to qualify that the integrated flight vehicle system (including the launch vehicle) and ground support equipment, as procured and verified by the acceptance test procedures, conform to the Constellation program requirements.
		In Spirals 2 and 3, the CEV has been functionally defined as the vehicle in which the exploration crew will be transported to the lunar vicinity and subsequently returned to the Earth surface.
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewsr.html?pid=15201 (7526 words)

	NasaSpaceFlight.com - CEV revolution mounted
		Images, information and the video showing the Canfield joint in action on a CEV in flight can be viewed on the links at the end of this article.
		The CEV will need to minimize solar heating of its super cold propellants when travelling in space, which will incorporate what is called a 'barbecue' roll manoeuvre.
		As seen on the video, the result is a CEV rolling whilst 'swimming the backstroke' in space, never losing track of the sun which provides its electricity and ensuring its propellant remains super-cold.
	www.nasaspaceflight.com /content?id=4182 (380 words)

	BibleGateway.com - Version information: Contemporary English Version
		Scriptures marked as "(CEV)" are taken from the Contemporary English Version Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society.
		The text of the Contemporary English Version (CEV) appearing on or deriving from this or any other web page is for personal use only.
		Any use of the CEV shall be governed by above policy and shall be solely restricted to noncommercial, personal study purposes.
	www.biblegateway.com /versions?action=getVersionInfo&vid=46 (1024 words)

	Index
		The CEV has a mission requirement to transport up to six crew members to and from the International Space Station and up to four to and from the moon.
		Weight increases on the CEV was a primary factor for requiring the five segments SRB.
		It is very doubtful that the CEV will provide any actual improvement for crew safety even with the launch crew escape system because of the increased risk of crew module failures during entry.
	www.nasaproblems.com (6005 words)

	NASA - What is the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV)?
		The CEV is America’s new spacecraft for human space exploration.
		It will be able to ferry crews of three astronauts (plus additional cargo) to and from the International Space Station, but has the capability to carry as many as six crew members.
		The original proposal called for the CEV to be ready in 2014, which reflects the vision statement.
	www.nasa.gov /missions/solarsystem/cev_faq.html (1304 words)

	NASA - NASA Selects Contractors for Crew Exploration Vehicle Work
		NASA's Vision for Space Exploration calls for the CEV to carry up to six astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit soon after the Space Shuttle is retired in 2010, and then on to the moon as early as 2015.
		Phase 2, covering final CEV design and production, was scheduled to start with a down-selection to a single industry team in 2008.
		To reduce or eliminate the gap between the Shuttle's retirement in 2010 and an operational CEV, the Phase 2 down-selection is planned for 2006.
	www.nasa.gov /home/hqnews/2005/jun/HQ_05146_contractor.html (287 words)

	Space Politics: CEV/CLV changes: policy issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Also, remember, the objectives for the CEV are a good deal more ambitious than they were for the Apollo module.
		I suppose it is possible to shift some of the oxygen and fuel stores from inside the CEV out to the service module which now has only the RCS thrusters, the main rocket engine, the fuel needed to send it back to earth, and the solar cell array.
		The only real excuse for downsizing the CEV is for that inevitable day when they realize that the CLV is not going to be able to be built for anywhere near the costs envisioned and that they will have to back up and use the EELV heavy birds.
	www.spacepolitics.com /archives/000790.html (2471 words)

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