Space Forum / Shuttle / March 2004

= Not specific to [shuttle] operations, the following news
is nonetheless considered significant to followers of the
Space program generally.
  First proof of life on other planets has not officially

Why doesn't Nasa ask for volunteers from the Astronauts to crew a final
Hubble mission ?? Everyone knows the risks...it would be an all volunteer
crew willing to take their chances, that in the extreme could lead to their
deaths, but everyone goes into this mission with eyes open. ...

I've heard that the first Unmanned flight of the Project
Constellation/CEV might occur as earily as '07 or '08, but it won't
become operational til '14.
Are they talking about the full Lunar Version being operational by