Game Changing Technology Development Program “The GCDP focuses on developing radically new approaches to NASA’s future space missions and the nation’s significant aerospace needs. Where other technology development activities seek the steady and deliberate evolution of system and mission capabilities, the successful products of the GCDP should provide revolutionary advances in capabilities to enable missions that cannot otherwise be accomplished or that significantly improve mission performance compared with conventional approaches. […]

Frank Sietzen, Jr.: Seemingly lost among the noise following last week’s actions of the House Commerce and Science Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee on marking up a NASA budget is the issue of the agency’s proposed new technology programs. Both the House and Senate sharply cut the Obama Administration’s original request. As of this writing no dissent has been heard from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, so the […]