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Old March 23rd 08, 08:15 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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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
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Old March 23rd 08, 08:23 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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On Mar 23, 2:15�pm, "
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
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


shuttles had all sorts of delays, last i heard CEV has indefinite
vibration caused delays
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Old March 23rd 08, 08:55 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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On Mar 23, 2:23Â*pm, bob haller safety advocate
wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:15�pm, "
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
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


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
nightma

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0512/08clv

JTM
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Old March 24th 08, 04:23 PM posted to sci.space.shuttle
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Default CEV Test Flight

On Mar 23, 2:23Â*pm, bob haller safety advocate
wrote:
On Mar 23, 2:15�pm, "
wrote:

Finally, can anyone recall whether there was any slippage of the date
initially planned for the first test flight of a shuttle landing?


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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