Washington D.C. – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation today thanked Members of Congress for the extension of government risk-sharing for commercial launch companies. A bill to extend the current framework for one year passed the House and Senate in the closing hours of the 112th Congress, and has been sent to the President for signature. The [...]
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The Commercial Spaceflight Federation Celebrates Risk-sharing Renewal
Commercial Spaceflight Federation President Named Vice-Chair of FAA Advisory Panel
Washington D.C. – On Monday, November 19, the Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space Transportation announced that Michael Lopez-Alegria, President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation would be the vice-chair of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). COMSTAC provides information, advice and recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration on all matters related to U.S. [...]
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation Lauds NASA and FAA Partnership and Looks Forward to Continuing Industry and Agency Collaboration
Washington D.C. – NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) held a teleconference on Monday to discuss their joint commercial human spaceflight vision. In the teleconference, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and FAA acting Administrator Michael Huerta announced that NASA and FAA will be working together closely to ensure that the FAA’s work in regulating commercial [...]
Commercial Spaceflight Federation Welcomes Passage of Legislation to Provide Regulatory Stability to Growing Industry
FAA Learning Period for Spaceflight Regulation Extended Though 2015 Washington D.C. – The Commercial Spaceflight Federation welcomes Congress’s passage yesterday of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, which includes a key provision granting regulatory stability to the commercial spaceflight industry. The new law’s provision extends a regulatory “learning period” that was created when Congress originally [...]
Topic Spotlight: the FAA Space Transportation Infrastructure Matching Grants Program
In the 1993 NASA Authorization Act, Congress authorized a new program to support commercial space transportation facilities, known as the Space Transportation Matching Grants (STIM-Grants) Program. The STIM-Grants program enables spaceports to develop infrastructure to improve U.S. space competitiveness in the global marketplace. The grants are administered by Secretary of Transportation, under consultation with the [...]
Former Secretary of Transportation Mineta Praises Obama’s NASA Plan For Jump-Starting Commercial Spaceflight
Norman Mineta, who served as Secretary of Transportation under President George W. Bush and as Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton, and who represented Silicon Valley in Congress for more than 20 years, has published an op-ed stating, “With Russia, China and India close on our heels, the only way we can maintain our [...]
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver to Keynote the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in February
Washington, D.C.– NASA’s Deputy Administrator, Lori Garver, will be the opening keynote speaker at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference on February 18-20, 2010, at which scientists, engineers, educators, and vehicle developers will gather to discuss the research and education benefits of new commercial suborbital spacecraft. The conference, co-organized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the Universities [...]
List of Speakers Announced for the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in February
Astronauts, researchers, educators, senior government officials including the director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, Dr. Pete Worden, and the head of the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Dr. George Nield, and representatives from commercial space companies and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, will be among the speakers at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference on February [...]
Centennial Challenges, Spaceport Infrastructure Grants, and Suborbital Science to Receive Funds from NASA and FAA
NASA’s Centennial Challenges prize program, FAA’s Spaceports Infrastructure Grants initiative, and the new NASA Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research program (CRuSR) gained momentum after receiving funding in the NASA and FAA appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2010, passed by Congress and signed by the President last week. The Commercial Spaceflight Federation conducted advocacy efforts for these [...]