with "Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation (COE-CST) " as a topic
Topics: Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation (COE-CST) , Commercial Space, FAA AST, Pat Hynes
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 ...
Topics: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Boeing X-37 space plane, BOR-4 , Carl Erlich, Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation (COE-CST) , Dream Chaser, Energia rocket, HL-20, Mark Sirangelo, NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev), NASA Langley Research Center, New Mexico State University, New Mexico , North Carolina State University, Pat Hynes, Spaceport America, Spaceport America, US Air Force , , Sierra Nevada Corporation
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, ...
