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The MPCV spacecraft in space

by

Walter B. Myers/Novapix

Reference

e-exl01-20071

Date

2011-07-30

The next generation Deep Space Vehicle (DSV) may be flying within the next decade. Like the Apollo Command/Service Modules which last flew in 1973, the DSV will be a crewed spacecraft capable of independently navigating beyond Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond.