Sentences with phrase «commercial human spaceflight»
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.
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The idea is that burdensome regulations might stifle the nascent commercial human spaceflight industry and the government should wait to see how the business develops to better assess its risks before imposing stronger safety requirements.
It says that companies have to get a license from the FAA for all commercial human spaceflight launches and reentries, but as for passenger safety, NASA is in charge for its own astronauts and those of other ISS partners.
Boeing is one of three American companies working with CCP to develop safe, reliable and cost - effective crew transportation systems during NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers.
Not exact matches
Other spaceflight companies, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sierra Nevada and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin, are variously developing new spacecraft designed to carry humans into orbital space as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).
The NASTAR center is (to date) the only private training facility to meet FAA safety regulations for both orbital and suborbital human spaceflight, which has made them a de facto partner for commercial space companies like Virgin Galacticand Astronauts 4 Hire.
«We're working right now to take NASA's 50 years of human spaceflight and consolidate that experience into documentation that can be used by these commercial companies.»
Britain has a long - standing policy of avoiding any programs of the European Space Agency that involve human spaceflight, focusing its efforts on robotic science missions, earth observation, and the commercial exploitation of space.
Discussing his strong concerns with the President's proposal, Mr. Thomas Young, former CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp., said «A fundamental flaw in the proposed human spaceflight program is a commercial crew initiative which abandons the proven methodology I have described.
«It seems like the only way we're going to do exciting things in human spaceflight is if commercial companies handle the low - Earth orbit stuff and NASA handles the stuff beyond low - Earth orbit.»
A common theme was the Obama Administration's FY2013 budget request for the future of the human spaceflight program and what many see as a competition between commercial crew services to the International Space Station (ISS) and a NASA - developed system to take astronauts further into the solar system.
NASA's Commercial Crew Program relied on years of human spaceflight experience to develop the requirements needed to ensure transportation systems are qualified to fly astronauts.
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Shelby has not been shy about expressing his lack of enthusiasm for the commercial crew program, today calling privately funded vehicles a «fiction» that diverts funding from NASA developing human spaceflight capabilities with SLS.
But the new world of commercial spaceflight has yet to launch a human into space, let alone civilians and leave them there for two weeks.