Florida, the nation’s premier launch site since the 1960s thanks to NASA’s largesse, is in danger of being eclipsed in a fast-changing space race. In less than four years when the space shuttle program ends, one-third of the 15,000 space-related jobs on Florida’s Space Coast will be eliminated. Meanwhile, a growing number of billionaire businessmen [...]
NASA Constellation have approved the Rollercoaster Escape System to be used as the Emergency Egress Systems (EES) for astronauts and pad crew to race away from the Ares I pad, should an emergency be called.The Rollercoaster system led the September trade study as the preferred option, and will now be offered as a contract to [...]
Irvin Aerospace, the world’s first parachute engineering, design and manufacturing company founded in 1919, was selected by Jacobs Sverdrup for NASA to develop parachutes for NASA’s Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). Following the space shuttles retirement in 2010, NASA plans to replace the aging shuttle fleet with a number of reusable Orion spacecraft. Orion is [...]
Remarks by The Honorable Shana Dale Deputy Administrator National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationBefore the AAS/AIAA Seminar “Importance of International Collaboration in Space Exploration” 1 November 2006 Thank you for those kind words and thank you for inviting me to this seminar today. These are exciting and busy times in the space business and I firmly [...]