NASA has now reached one of its most important milestones for the U.S. NASAs administrator Charles Bolden on May 25, 2011 announced that the system will be based on designs that originated in the plan for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. The goal of this is to carry humans into deep space! And now these plans are being used to develop a new spacecraft called the Multi- Purpose Crew Vehicle the MPCV.
As Bolden says "We are committed to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and look forward to developing the next generation of systems to take us there. The NASA Authorization Act lays out a clear path forward for us by handing off transportation to the International Space Station to our private sector partners, so we can focus on deep space exploration. As we aggressively continue our work on heavy lift launch vehicle, we are moving forward with an existing contract to keep development of our new crew vehicle on track."
The space craft is being built so that it should be able to carry four astronauts on a 21-day missions and be able to land in the Pacific Ocean just off the California coast. It will have a pressurized volume of 690 cubic feet along with 316 cubic feet of habitabl
e space.
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