Sentences with phrase «spaceflight federation»
Washington, D.C. — The Commercial Spaceflight Federation released the following statement (click here to download a PDF version) on the Aerospace Corporation's Space Launch Projects Group / Launch System Division's recent white paper on the business case of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, entitled «The Financial Feasibility and a Reliability Based Acquisition Approach for Commercial Crew»:
http://www.commercialspaceflight.org/
The white paper authors did not seek out real - world cost data, business case financials, or market assessments from potential commercial crew providers, such as United Launch Alliance, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, Blue Origin, or others, nor did they contact the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.
Alan Stern is Associate Vice President of the Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division in Boulder, Colorado, and chair of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation's Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG).
About the Commercial Spaceflight Federation The mission of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) is to promote the development of commercial human spaceflight, pursue ever - higher levels of safety, and share best practices and expertise throughout the industry.
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation strongly disagrees with any of the white paper's conclusions arising from these inexplicable assumptions.
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation's member companies, which include commercial spaceflight developers, operators, spaceports, suppliers, and service providers, are creating thousands of high - tech jobs nationwide, working to preserve American leadership in aerospace through technology innovation, and inspiring young people to pursue careers in science and engineering.
As for the safety of commercial crew flights, Michael Lopez - Alegria of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) said CSF agrees that «the principle that NASA should have the final say so in safety is key.»
The House has not publicly indicated its funding level for commercial crew, but the Commercial Spaceflight Federation issued a press release stating that the amount is $ 500 million and asked Congress to provide «the highest possible funding level» as it finalizes the NASA budget.
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation praised the bill's recommended FY2016 funding level for commercial crew (which is the same as the President's request under the aspirational scenario; less than the request, but more than current funding in the constrained scenario) and for Advanced Exploration Systems (AES).
The Planetary Society, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and the Coalition for Space Exploration support certain aspects of the legislation, but not the bill in its entirety.
«Only now are we finally reaching the full operational level for which ISS had been designed,» Commercial Spaceflight Federation president Eric Stallmer said in a statement.
Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation — a coalition of private space companies — said in a statement that SPD - 1 «directs NASA to partner with the US commercial space industry to return Americans to the Moon.»
This requires people like Sirangelo — who chairs the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the industry's association — to be part engineer, part salesman.
Eric is President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the largest trade organization dedicated to promoting the development of the commercial spaceflight industry, and an Advisory Board Member of Space Capital.
More than $ 3.3 billion was invested in the U.S. last year on commercial space companies, says Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a trade group for the nascent industry.