John Doe wrote:

*If* the USA flew Soyuz, would it allow it
to land on continental USA based on its current landing precision
statistics ?



You could land it here in North Dakota without much chance of anything
going wrong due to the flatness and sparse population of the state. In
fact, our state is designated as an emergency Soyuz landing area.
In the continental US , any desert area would make a fairly safe landing
zone provided it wasn't too mountainous.

Pat


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 ?



Besides ground landings the Soyuz is also designed to be able to safely
land at sea if necessary.
It would be surprising if the CEV didn't have a similar capability, and
that opens up a lot more of the Earth's surface as a emergency landing area.

Pat