Comments on: Creating commercial spaceflight “centers of excellence” http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/10/22/creating-commercial-spaceflight-centers-of-excellence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=creating-commercial-spaceflight-centers-of-excellence Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: common sense http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/10/22/creating-commercial-spaceflight-centers-of-excellence/#comment-271791 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:02:50 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2702#comment-271791 @Anon:

“Also if human settlement of space is impossible why bother with fundng low cost space access anyway?”

I am not sure where they talk settlement of Space. There still is LEO for which all of this below may be valuable:

(1) Space transportation policy analysis.

(2) Spaceport safety, including range system development, testing, simulation, and qualification, and spaceport instrumentation, technologies, and processes.

(3) Spaceflight passenger and crew training and qualification.

(4) Spaceflight biomedical countermeasures.

(5) Aerospace workforce technical training and certification.

(6) Space vehicle design, including materials and engineering research and development, launch vehicle flight safety analysis, and design of passenger-carrying spaceflight vehicles to maximize safety and functionality.

(7) Space weather interactions with space transportation systems.

(8) Aviation and space transportation system convergence planning and analysis.

]]> By: Anon http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/10/22/creating-commercial-spaceflight-centers-of-excellence/#comment-271771 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:54:26 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=2702#comment-271771 Pork for UCF. BTW what has the Florida Space Institute done to advance RLV technology from the last side of Congressional pork?

Also if human settlement of space is impossible why bother with fundng low cost space access anyway?

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