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ULA and NASA Complete Space Act Agreement

NASA and United Launch Alliance Complete Space Act Agreement (with full text of SAA) “NASA partner United Launch Alliance (ULA) has completed the fifth and final milestone for its Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) agreement with the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The Hazard, System Safety and Probabilistic Risk Assessment detailed how ULA’s Atlas V rocket launch system hardware would ensure crew safety during launch and ascent. “The ULA team […]

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  • October 15, 2012
ATK Liberty Updates

ATK Makes Progress with the Liberty Launch System, Commercial Space Watch (With video) “In a trio of media releases ATK announced today that is has signed a deal with NanoRacks, completed a milestone for its contract with NASA for the Commercial Crew Development Program (CCDev) and that partner EADS Astrium has completed tests on tank structures for the Liberty rocket second stage.”

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  • June 28, 2012
Private Sector Thinking in a Government-Driven Market

Private Sector Edges Deeper in Space, NY Times “The only way to make a dramatic reduction of price is to assume a dramatic increase of launches,” said Mr. Greason of XCOR. “You have to assume there is some market, that there will be enough demand to support that low price.” The current rockets — most of them good for one launching only — are very expensive regardless of whether they […]

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  • May 15, 2012
Bolden Comments on Calls for Crew Downselect

Comments by Charles Bolden at the COMSTAC Advisory Committee Public Meeting “The key to achieving our goal of facilitating a strong commercial space industry is adequate funding and good old-fashioned American competition. We are working hard to maintain both. NASA’s 2013 request for commercial crew development is $830 million. Despite a bi-partisan agreement to ensure American astronauts are traveling into space on U.S. built spacecraft as soon as possible, some […]

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  • May 10, 2012
Taking Sides on Commercial Crew Downselect

Apollo Commanders Back Call For Quick Commercial Crew Selection, Aviation Week “It seems unlikely that NASA will receive significant budgetary relief in the foreseeable future,” the three retired astronauts wrote in a May 4 letter to Wolf. “Consequently, it is mandatory to maximize return on the limited funds available to access low Earth orbit. An early downselect would seem to be prudent in order to maximize the possibility of developing […]

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  • May 8, 2012
Blue Origin's ISS Crew Vehicle

Blue Origin Tests Design of Next-Generation Spacecraft “Blue Origin successfully tested the design of its next-generation Space Vehicle, completing a series of wind tunnel tests to refine the aerodynamic characteristics of the spacecraft’s unique biconic shape. The tests were carried out as part of Blue Origin’s partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the agency’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program. Blue Origin is designing the Space Vehicle […]

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  • April 26, 2012
Boeing SLS, CCiCap Update

A Conversation with Jim Chilton and John Mulholland of Boeing, Commercial Space Watch (Video Interview) “A conversation with Jim Chilton and John Mulholland of Boeing. Mr. Mulholland is Vice President and Program Manager – Commercial Programs, Space Exploration while Mr. Chilton is Vice President and Program Manager Exploration Launch Systems. In our conversation we talk about NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), Commercial Crew Development Program (CCDev), Commercial Crew Integrated Capability […]

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  • April 23, 2012
NASA Partner Commercial Crew Program Space Act Agreement Status

Marc’s note:In a series of video interviews with Partner Managers, NASA provides a Comercial Crew Program Space Act Agreement status update. These videos are posted on the new SpaceRef Forum where you can discuss them and other issues. – Video: Interview with Ed Mango, NASA Commercial Crew Program Manager – Video: Blue Origin Commercial Crew Program Status of Space Act Agreement – Video: Excalibur Almaz Commercial Crew Program Status of […]

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  • March 21, 2012
Excalibur Almaz CCDev Update

Video Interview: Sarah Waechter, Partner Manager for Excalibur Almaz Inc., SpaceRef Forum “NASA Public Affairs Officer Kyle Herring talks with Sarah Waechter, partner manager for Excalibur Almaz Inc., on the status of the Space Act Agreement. Excalibur Almaz is one of seven partners associated with the Commercial Crew Program.”

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  • March 19, 2012
Dragon Docking Date Announced – SpaceX on "60 Minutes"

SpaceX announces a date for first private space dock with space station, Ars technica “SpaceX’s Company President Gwynne Shotwell used the Satellite 2012 Conference to announce that it has a thin launch window on April 30 that would get it to a scheduled May 3 berthing slot at the International Space Station. The mission, known as COTS 2/3, carries a political payload far larger than the food and clean underwear […]

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  • March 16, 2012