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Old November 8th 05, 05:10 AM
Jacques van Oene
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November 7, 2005

Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone 202/358-1979/5241)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone 281/483-5111)

RELEASE: 05-356

NASA ESTABLISHES COMMERCIAL CREW/CARGO PROJECT OFFICE

NASA has formed the Commercial Crew/Cargo Project Office to spur
private industry to provide cost-effective access to low-Earth orbit
and the international space station in support of the Vision for
Space Exploration.

Part of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, the office is
located at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. NASA named Alan J.
Lindenmoyer project manager. The office will manage orbital
transportation capability demonstration projects that may lead to the
procurement of commercial cargo and crew transportation services to
resupply the space station.

The commercial sector will soon get an opportunity to provide these
services. In testimony before a Congressional committee last week,
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said, "Later this month NASA will
issue a draft solicitation requesting commercial service
demonstrations for space station crew and cargo delivery and return.
Where commercial providers have demonstrated the ability to meet
NASA's needs and safety requirements, commercial services will be
purchased instead of using government assets and operations."

"There are many in the private sector that are eager to develop
commercially viable space transportation systems," said Scott
Horowitz, associate administrator, NASA's Exploration Systems Mission
Directorate. "In the future, the commercial sector will provide cost
effective access to space for both crew and cargo. While NASA must
develop its own capabilities for space exploration, the commercial
sector will eventually provide these services when it becomes cost
effective. I am very excited to have Alan leading this effort. His
skill, enthusiasm and dedication to developing commercial space will
be key to enabling this fledgling industry."

Lindenmoyer joined NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.,
in 1982 as a cooperative education student. He worked there as a
flight structures engineer until moving to NASA Headquarters in 1987.
At Headquarters, he served as a structural dynamics engineer for the
space station Freedom program.

He moved to Johnson in 1990. He held progressively more responsible
positions in the international space station program, most recently
including technical integration manager and contracting officer's
technical representative.

Lindenmoyer received a bachelor's degree in engineering and a
commercial/instrument pilot certificate from Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, Daytona beach, Fla. He received a master's
degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Maryland,
College Park, Md.

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/home


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Old November 9th 05, 10:04 AM
Brian Gaff
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Just thinking about this last night.

at the moment, a lot of manufacturing is done in China, and the admin and
programming in India, result, less work in the west as we cost too much...

So, the cheapest commercial spacecraft could conceivable be made and
launched in either of these two countries, but would the Us or other
governments allow this to occur?



Hmm.

Brian

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November 7, 2005

Michael Braukus/J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone 202/358-1979/5241)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone 281/483-5111)

RELEASE: 05-356

NASA ESTABLISHES COMMERCIAL CREW/CARGO PROJECT OFFICE

NASA has formed the Commercial Crew/Cargo Project Office to spur
private industry to provide cost-effective access to low-Earth orbit
and the international space station in support of the Vision for
Space Exploration.

Part of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, the office is
located at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. NASA named Alan J.
Lindenmoyer project manager. The office will manage orbital
transportation capability demonstration projects that may lead to the
procurement of commercial cargo and crew transportation services to
resupply the space station.

The commercial sector will soon get an opportunity to provide these
services. In testimony before a Congressional committee last week,
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said, "Later this month NASA will
issue a draft solicitation requesting commercial service
demonstrations for space station crew and cargo delivery and return.
Where commercial providers have demonstrated the ability to meet
NASA's needs and safety requirements, commercial services will be
purchased instead of using government assets and operations."

"There are many in the private sector that are eager to develop
commercially viable space transportation systems," said Scott
Horowitz, associate administrator, NASA's Exploration Systems Mission
Directorate. "In the future, the commercial sector will provide cost
effective access to space for both crew and cargo. While NASA must
develop its own capabilities for space exploration, the commercial
sector will eventually provide these services when it becomes cost
effective. I am very excited to have Alan leading this effort. His
skill, enthusiasm and dedication to developing commercial space will
be key to enabling this fledgling industry."

Lindenmoyer joined NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.,
in 1982 as a cooperative education student. He worked there as a
flight structures engineer until moving to NASA Headquarters in 1987.
At Headquarters, he served as a structural dynamics engineer for the
space station Freedom program.

He moved to Johnson in 1990. He held progressively more responsible
positions in the international space station program, most recently
including technical integration manager and contracting officer's
technical representative.

Lindenmoyer received a bachelor's degree in engineering and a
commercial/instrument pilot certificate from Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, Daytona beach, Fla. He received a master's
degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Maryland,
College Park, Md.

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/home


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Old November 9th 05, 04:06 PM
Jim Kingdon
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at the moment, a lot of manufacturing is done in China, and the admin and
programming in India, result, less work in the west as we cost too much...


China and India both have launchers. Not clear whether they are
cheaper or not. Neither one has attracted a large number of payloads
other than from the country itself.

Russian launchers definitely are cheaper. In fact, the US has not
allowed Russia to offer them too cheaply (there is some kind of
agreement, I think what Russia gets out of it is letting US payloads
get exported or somethiing - I forget those details).

So, the cheapest commercial spacecraft could conceivable be made and
launched in either of these two countries, but would the Us or other
governments allow this to occur?


Certainly some people have argued that the US would be better off if
US payloads launch on cheap foreign launchers. But for the most part,
export control restrictions have gotten rather tight, making it hard
to do this even for private payloads. And government-funded US
missions don't generally want to send that much money outside the
country.

European payloads are another matter. A lot of them seem to go on
Russian launchers (or maybe it would more accurate to say launchers
run by Russian-European joint ventures). Mostly recently Venus
Express, which was launched yesterday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/venusexpre...109launch.html
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Old November 9th 05, 06:35 PM
Brian Gaff
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Launched today, I thought, but anyway, I just wonder this, If there are
trade embargos, it will just move everything abroad instead.

Still, I don't know....

Brian

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at the moment, a lot of manufacturing is done in China, and the admin and
programming in India, result, less work in the west as we cost too
much...


China and India both have launchers. Not clear whether they are
cheaper or not. Neither one has attracted a large number of payloads
other than from the country itself.

Russian launchers definitely are cheaper. In fact, the US has not
allowed Russia to offer them too cheaply (there is some kind of
agreement, I think what Russia gets out of it is letting US payloads
get exported or somethiing - I forget those details).

So, the cheapest commercial spacecraft could conceivable be made and
launched in either of these two countries, but would the Us or other
governments allow this to occur?


Certainly some people have argued that the US would be better off if
US payloads launch on cheap foreign launchers. But for the most part,
export control restrictions have gotten rather tight, making it hard
to do this even for private payloads. And government-funded US
missions don't generally want to send that much money outside the
country.

European payloads are another matter. A lot of them seem to go on
Russian launchers (or maybe it would more accurate to say launchers
run by Russian-European joint ventures). Mostly recently Venus
Express, which was launched yesterday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/venusexpre...109launch.html


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Old November 9th 05, 07:58 PM
ed kyle
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Default NASA ESTABLISHES COMMERCIAL CREW/CARGO PROJECT OFFICE

Brian Gaff wrote:
Just thinking about this last night.

at the moment, a lot of manufacturing is done in China, and the admin and
programming in India, result, less work in the west as we cost too much...

So, the cheapest commercial spacecraft could conceivable be made and
launched in either of these two countries, but would the Us or other
governments allow this to occur?


I don't think so. At least not under existing circumstances.

China's commercial space launch efforts, which began in
1990, ended up involved in controversy in the U.S. after the
1996 Intelsat 708 launch failure. That was when a CZ-3B
turned sideways after it cleared the tower and headed for
a nearby village. PLA soldiers cleared the site for hours
before any Loral satellite people were allowed in. Loral's
people never found the satellite encryption devices they
were looking for. Then Loral's people got into trouble with
the U.S. State Department when they assisted in China's
failure investigation without proper State Dept. authorization.

The result of this mess was that the U.S. Government
clamped down on technology transfer to such a great
extent that U.S. satellite manufacturers lost market share
big time. But China lost market share too - its share of
the commercial launch business - after sat insurers pulled
the plug on Long March. After a few Iridium launches,
several years passed without a Western launch until
Europe's Alcatel sent Apstar 6, which was launched
earlier this year.

But now China is beginning to make inroads into the
commercial satellite business. In recent months, China's
Academy of Satellite Technology has won work to build
a comsat for Nigeria and another for Venezuala, based on
China's own DFH-4 bus. China also helped Iran build its
recent micro-spysat.

So while I don't see China quickly selling bigsats to the
major U.S. and European satcom companies, I think it
is likely that China will gradually win more and more
"third-world" type comsat work, which will take some
business away from U.S., European, and Russian
companies. Someday this could very well transition into
selling sats to the West, but not for the forseeable future.

As for human launch vehicles, the U.S. will never buy
hardware from China because human launch is done
for reasons of interational prestige.

- Ed Kyle

 




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