tSpace CXV spacecraft 3D model

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The CXV (Crew Transfer Vehicle) was a proposed crewed spacecraft from the defunct company t/Space in the early 2000s. CXV was part of a larger architecture, intended to enable cheap access to the International Space Station and the moon (for lunar missions, CXV would only go to low Earth orbit, and transfer crew to a combined Earth departure/landing vehicle), as part of NASA's Constellation and Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) programs. The spacecraft consisted of a very simple capsule, scaled up from the Corona spy satellite's film reentry capsule, with its own self-contained power, propulsion, and ECLSS. An optional expendable Orbital Module could be used to augment this, allowing more crew/cargo capacity, unpressurized cargo delivery, and semi-permanent station module delivery. Potential launch vehicles included t/Space's own QuickReach rocket, Lockheed Martin's Atlas V, SpaceX's Falcon 5 or Falcon 9, and Kistler's K-1