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From: D. Long4/12/2005 8:55:56 PM
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Griffin is a good appointment pick. 2014 is absurd. T/Space has been banging the drum that they could have an operational module flying missions by then. The article only mentions the Big Contractors though. Expect Lockheed or Northrup to propose to do it "slow and expensive".

From Space.com:

With regard to the Crew Exploration Vehicle, Griffin noted that in the 1960s the Gemini program took only three years and the development of the Apollo capsule only about 6 years from contract award to flight He said NASA’s current plan to fly astronauts aboard the Crew Exploration Vehicle for the first time in 2014 “unacceptable”.

“The program that NASA has outlined so far features a new Crew Exploration Vehicle. – call it what you will --- that nominally comes on line in 2014. I think that is too far out,” Griffin told members of the Commerce Committee. “President Bush said not later than 2014. He didn’t say we couldn’t be smart and do it early. And that would be my goal.”

Teams led by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are going after a pair of contracts worth around $1 billion each to spend the next three years preparing for a Crew Exploration Vehicle prototype flight demonstration meant to help NASA pick one team to build the actual vehicle.. Proposals are due May 2, but Griffin’s statement at the hearing calls into question whether NASA will go forward with the competition as currently structured.
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