Sixty years between the first Moon landing and the next one. Cripes.
The CEV will be developed and tested by 2008, and conduct its first manned mission by 2014. Ten years for the combined technological might of the U.S. to build a big space capsule.
Glad to see we've got a direction, but holy cats, given forty years of spacecraft experience, from Mercury up to the Shuttle, can't we do better than this on the timeline?