rk wrote:
Really, Mezei? Have you read the following (courtesy of NASA Watch):

If all you can do is insult people instead of learning how to read...


http://images.spaceref.com/news/2005/ESAS.REPORT.05.PDF

While the CEV design was sized for lunar missions carrying a crew
of four, the vehicle was also designed to be reconfigurable to
accommodate up to six crew for International Space Station (ISS)
and future Mars mission scenarios.


The argument made by someone else was to kill the ISS now to generate
funds to pay for CEV. My response, in fewer words so your brain can
understand is that if you kill the ISS, you kill the only purpose for
CEV after it has shown the USA can still go to the moon to plant a flag
and stay a few days.

In terms of pretending that CEV can participate in a Mars mission, this
is utter rubbish. All it would do is act as a crew ferry between earth
and the staging area in LEO where the mars ship would be assembled.

And I am not convinced that a capsule would be the best way to land on
mars. They will some vehicle to land properly so it can launch from mars
and rejoin the expedition ship. That vehicle might has well be carrying
the crew down as well. And such a vehicle would be quite different from
an apollo capsule.

This is not to say that the mars expedition ship might not be carrying a
CEV as an emergency escape pod.