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Space Forum / Shuttle / March 2008CEV Test Flight
My understanding is that the date for the first test flight of the CEV was initially set for September 2008. Assuming that's a launch date rather than a landing date: 1) What is currently the date set for the first CEV test flight? 2) How close to readiness for launching that test flight is Pad B? Finally, can anyone recall whether there was any slippage of the date initially planned for the first test flight of a shuttle landing? JTM On Mar 23, 2:15�pm, "max...@mission51l.com" <max...@mission51l.com> wrote: > My understanding is that the date for the first test flight of the CEV > was initially set for September 2008. Assuming that's a launch date [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > JTM shuttles had all sorts of delays, last i heard CEV has indefinite vibration caused delays On Mar 23, 2:23 pm, bob haller safety advocate <hall...@aol.com> wrote: > On Mar 23, 2:15�pm, "max...@mission51l.com" <max...@mission51l.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > shuttles had all sorts of delays, last i heard CEV has indefinite > vibration caused delays That's a far cry from Bush's lengthy VSE speech on January 14, 2004: "Our second goal is to develop and test a new spacecraft, the Crew Exploration Vehicle, by 2008" About two years later, we saw this stripped-down ATK vision, or nightmare: <http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0512/08clv> JTM On Mar 23, 2:23 pm, bob haller safety advocate <hall...@aol.com> wrote: > On Mar 23, 2:15�pm, "max...@mission51l.com" <max...@mission51l.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > shuttles had all sorts of delays Sure, but I don't recall any delays in the orbiter's landing tests. It rolled out of the plant at Palmdale in September 1976, and in January 1977 it was taken to Dryden to begin a planned program of landing tests. Not until after that did it go to Marshall for mating with the ET and the SRBs, so that vibration testing could begin. Am I wrong in my understanding that at this point, their is still no real CEV available for landing tests? I think I read somewhere that the VSE plan was for the landing test to be a peripheral part of the first launch attempt from Pad B. JTM |
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