Shuttle Sunset

The best thing Congress can do to ensure there is no gap between the retirement-bound space shuttle and its replacement vehicle is to give NASA enough money to accelerate development of the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). For its part, NASA must make sure that it pursues a CEV design that takes advantage of existing technology — a safe, reliable design that will get the job done, not one that entails another push for revolutionary technology that may or may not be attainable in the near future.