NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle

I was doing some research into the Crew Exploration Vehicle, which is being designed as we speak by several competing aerospace corporations, including Honeywell, and came across an article by Robert Zubrin called "Getting Space Exploration Right." The article relates the current NASA problem and how to fix it in the context of a mission to Mars. It makes for interesting reading. In it you will find explanations of the current "Shuttle mode" versus the successful "Apollo mode" that got us to the moon. The section of the Hubble is quite enlightening on the political nature of space funding.