Henry Spencer wrote:
No, Apollo was good enough even without the skip. If memory serves --
references aren't handy -- Apollo landing error was no more than a few
kilometers. That doesn't matter a whole lot if you're coming down
somewhere like White Sands. And we could probably do somewhat better now,
with better guidance hardware.

When you consider Soyuz's landing performance, is it really realistic to
expect a capsule to ALWAYS land with sufficient precision to target some
area in the USA landmass ? *If* the USA flew Soyuz, would it allow it
to land on continental USA based on its current landing precision
statistics ?


If CEV is to be doing more than a couple of camping trips to the moon,
isn't it safe to assume that there might eventually be some landing
mishaps that might put the capsule off-target for its landing over the
course of the lifetime of that CEV ?