NASA GSFC Commercial Suborbital Vehicles Workshop “NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Innovative Partnership Program (IPP) and Earth Science Division will be hosting a Commercial Suborbital Vehicles Workshop at the […]
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Suborbital & Parabolic Payloads Sought
NASA Opportunities for Payloads Requiring an Near-Zero or Reduced Gravity Environment “Payloads selected under this announcement will fly on aircraft that provide parabolic flight trajectories and on suborbital reusable launch […]
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Starfighters to Launch Satellites
Starfighters Ready to Launch Satellites “F-104 jet fighters just like the ones astronauts trained in for decades will become a more regular part of the skyscape above NASA’s Kennedy Space […]
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NASA Selects Reduced-Gravity Flight Payloads
NASA Selects First Payloads for Upcoming Reduced-Gravity Flights “NASA has selected 16 payloads for flights on the commercial Zero-G parabolic aircraft and two suborbital reusable launch vehicles as part of […]
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Gene Cernan Is Stuck In The Past
Last man on the moon: ‘I don’t have a lot of confidence’ in commercial space “I don’t have a lot of confidence in that end of the commercial space spectrum […]
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NASA Commercial Crew Program Requirements Workshop
NASA Commercial Crew Program Requirements Workshop “Save the Date of May 24 and 25 for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Requirements Workshop. The workshop purpose is to introduce the Commercial Crew […]
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Aerospace Corp Study Dumps on Commercial Crew Prospects
The Financial Feasibility and a Reliability Based Acquisition Approach for Commercial Crew – Presentation to Administrator Bolden John Skratt, The Aerospace Corporation Summary of Financial Feasibility Given current assumptions – […]
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Using Commercial Launchers and Fuel Depots Instead of HLVs
Near Term Space Exploration with Commercial Launch Vehicles Plus Propellant Depot, Dr. Alan Wilhite and Dr. Douglas Stanley, Dale Arney and Chris Jones, GRAs Georgia Institute of Technology/ National Institute […]
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The Potential of Commercial Crew Transport
Commercial Human Spaceflight Safer, Much Needed, Owen Garriott and Alan Stern, Space News “We also think that commercial crew LEO transport has the potential (and, many believe, high probability) of […]
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SwRI Breaks New Ground With Commercial Suborbital Science Contracts
SwRI signs contracts to fly eight pioneering missions with SwRI payload specialists aboard reusable suborbital launchers, with options for more flights “Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced pioneering agreements today to […]