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 vehicles (sRLVs) that are capable of flying to altitudes above 100 km, providing exposure to reduced gravity and near-zero gravity environments. In exchange for the opportunity to fly, the proposer will provide data, designs, processes, and other relevant information to […]

Full Draft Text of House NASA Authorization Legislation Keith’s note: One thing that the House version of the NASA Authorization Act does is to cut further into proposed commercial activity – specifically, CRuSR (Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research). In this draft House Legislation, funding for CRuSR is cut in FY 2011 and FY 2012 from the President’s and Senate’s mark at $15M per year year down to just $1M per year, […]

Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research – CRuSR – Flight Services “This notice is being issued as a Request for Quotations (RFQ) for commercial resusable suborbital flight services. NASA’s Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) program has a requirement for the transportation of various Government-provided research payloads on the test flights of vendor vehicles (including vehicle prototypes) intended for commercial reusable suborbital markets. Each flight and related services shall be in accordance with […]

NASA Solicitation: Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program – CRUSR – Request for Information “In this Request for Information (RFI), the NASA Ames CRuSR Office is requesting technical and programmatic input to improve the government’s understanding of flight opportunities to aid potential science investigators in scoping and designing possible future suborbital investigations. Responses to this RFI are welcome from all interested parties, especially potential providers of suborbital spaceflight services. Suborbital spaceflight […]