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Topics: Spaceport America, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium , NASA, NASA, NASA, NASA, FAA, Commercial Space Articles, COE-CST, COE-CST, Chris Anderson, NMSU, Space, Zero gravity, Werner Von Braun , Rise of the Creative Class, New Mexico State University, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, Marshall Spaceflight Center
Last week I met Christine Anderson, the recently appointed Executive Director of Spaceport America. She is wonderful to talk with, excited about the challenge ahead of her, and importantly, had moved to New Mexico by choice. She chose New Mexico because of its beauty, the art community, and the western lifestyle. We were getting along pretty well as I began to recall a conversation with John Hummer's about the Sugerman ...
When I travel, it is usually for work. Right now the heavy summer travel season is winding down. Yet, the planes are full with students heading off to college. Between squeezing in the last vacation of the summer and students going to college, the planes were full and so were the airports, including the El Paso International Airport. Crowded skies will continue to be part of the travel experience, and the FAA is working to ...
George Nield speaking at ISPCS 2011
Topics: The Dream Chaser, Spaceport America, Sierra Nevada Corporation, North Carolina State University, NMSU, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program , New Mexico State University, NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev) , New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium , NASA, NASA, NASA Langley Research Center, NASA, NASA, ISPCS, ISPCS, HL-20, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, FAA, Energia rocket, Dream Chaser simulator, Commercial spaceflight, Commercial Space Articles, BOR-4 , Carl Erlich, Boeing X-37 space plane, Baikonur Cosmodrome, University of Colorado Bioastronautics Laboratory , US Air Force
Did you know the United States copied a Russian space plane called the BOR-4 and adapted it in the 1990's to a manned orbital space plane called the HL 20? On Tuesday, November 8th, I went to the Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) plant in Livingston, Colorado, accompanied by Carl Ehrlich, the manager of the Rockwell study team who worked on the HL 20 program in the 1990's. We were guests of Mark Sirangelo, ...
The core of my motivation in writing is not only to examine major issues in the commercial space transportation industry, but to also learn along with you. The emerging commercial space industry is fascinating. It is about much more than space.
This week I have been working on a spaceport panel for the commercial space conference held here in October. There are over 43,000 airports in the world. By contrast, there are 24 four ...
