The XV spacecraft was a commercial crew and cargo vehicle proposed by now-defunct HMX under NASA's Assured Access to Station (AAS) program. AAS aimed to develop at least one commercial vehicle capable of delivering cargo, and potentially later crew, to the International Space Station as an alternative to the Space Shuttle, but was canceled in 2003. The XV was presented as a minimal-cost solution to this need, with a fully-reusable capsule flying on the highly-proven Titan 23G expendable launch vehicle (of which some 30 surplus units remained in inventory at the end of the USAF's use of the Titan family), a direct derivative of the Titan II vehicle that carried Gemini spacecraft to orbit in the 1960s. Other vehicles including Atlas V and Falcon 5 were also proposed as alternatives. The capsule itself used an aerothermal design scaled up from an existing ICBM warhead, and most of its systems (power, propulsion, and heat shielding) were off-the-shelf components from other spacecraft. A hingled nose cap covered a docking port (either APAS-95 or CBM) as well as forward cold-gas thrusters and rendezvous sensors; the aft bay contained launch abort engines, a deployable solar array, and radiator

After AAS's cancelation, the XV program came under the ownership of t/Space, which further developed it and a family of derivative vehicles in their bids for the COTS, Commercial Crew, Crew Exploration Vehicle, and Lunar Surface Access Module programs, though none were successful

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