Sentences with phrase «spaceflight business»

The Act struck a compromise between allowing the Obama Administration to proceed with its plan to turn crew transportation to low Earth orbit (LEO) over to the private sector and Congress's desire to keep NASA in the human spaceflight business by building «beyond LEO» systems — SLS and Orion — to take astronauts further into space.

Why NASA's plan to get out of the manned spaceflight business may (finally) make space travel routine

Painfully aware of the looming break in America's space capabilities, NASA had already begun making plans to seed the commercial spaceflight business.

Yes, that's right: One perk of the commercial spaceflight business is that the boss gets to hitch a ride without shelling out the $ 30 million it would cost to be a space tourist in the Soyuz.

Not exact matches

As governments hand over the business of spaceflight to the private sector, what opportunities, challenges, and advancements await?

The last sector is something I believe Axiom is uniquely able to provide, which is helping more governments get into the business of human spaceflight.

The topic of the event, the 10th annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, could hardly have been more timely, given the February budget request from President Obama that sought to drastically change NASA's direction for human spaceflight and the way the agency does that business.

John Karas, vice president and general manager of human spaceflight at Lockheed Martin, recently declared, «I don't think there is a business case for us.»

IT IS the moment spaceflight officially became a business.

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.

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.

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»:

His office told us: «We will support this, subject to business case through a # 50 million programme to enable new satellite launch services and low gravity spaceflights from UK spaceports, building on # 99 million that we are already investing to build the National Satellite Test Facility.»