Transport d'équipage par le secteur privé (Commercial Crew)

grysor a écrit:carte des etats qui travail avec la nasa dans leur programme commercial
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/CCPInteractiveMap/

The Obama administration's commercial manned space initiative would receive about $700 million under the draft authorization, more than $100 million less than what NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said was the minimum needed to reach an initial space station launch date in 2017.

Despite the proposed funding reduction, the draft authorization gives NASA a firm Dec. 31, 2017, deadline that "is not negotiable," Palazzo said.

"NASA must do whatever is necessary in its acquisition model to meet this deadline, even if that means radically altering their current plans," he said.

Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Maryland, a écrit:"The bill establishes aggressive milestones and activities that run contrary to proposed downsized levels without any real regard for safety and schedule," she said. "These are exactly the pressures, from the lessons we learned from both Challenger and Columbia. We can't afford to repeat those tragedies."

I also predict that if passed by the committee, this bill would be DOA in the Senate. DOA meaning 'dead on a arrival.'"

yoann a écrit:l'image est hors ligne :|

yoann a écrit:je suis sur le site nasa.gov, aucune des images dans la gallerie ksc ne s'affiche... donc le probleme ne vient pas d'ici, il faut juste atendre un peu :roll: 

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) appears to be the only company that put in a proposal to NASA to take over one of the space shuttle’s mothballed launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

NASA declined to comment on how many bids it received in response to a solicitation that closed on July 5, but a survey of U.S. launch companies by SpaceNews shows only SpaceX saying it put in a proposal to take over Launch Complex 39A.

katalpa a écrit:le KSC reste un astroport et le louer au privé rapportera des sous entre autres... à la NASA ;

Competing proposals from two billionaire-backed private space firms have complicated NASA’s plan to lease a former Apollo and shuttle launch pad it no longer needs and can’t afford to maintain.

NASA was close to an agreement on a 15-year lease of Kennedy Space Center’s pad 39A to SpaceX, which could use it in the next few years for launches of astronauts to the International Space Station and for a planned heavy-lift Falcon rocket.

But Blue Origin, which has not yet flown a vehicle in space but may compete with SpaceX long-term, has instead proposed taking over the pad and equipping it to serve multiple launch providers, including SpaceX.

“We believe the fullest commercial use of that facility is as a multi-user pad, and we think we’ve got the long-term financial commitment and the technical ability to make it successful,” said Rob Meyerson, president of Blue Origin.

NASA is looking for commercial operators to take over the historic seaside pad that debuted with the first Saturn V blastoff in 1967 and was last used in 2011 for the final shuttle launch.

The agency hopes to lease the mothballed pad by Oct. 1, when it plans to stop funding upkeep of a facility for which it has “no foreseeable” need.

NASA would not comment on proposals under evaluation, which had to detail plans for shared or exclusive use for at least five years.

The issue surfaced Wednesday on Capitol Hill when an Alabama congressman filed an amendment to a proposed NASA spending plan that would prevent the agency from awarding the pad to any user exclusively.

U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt later withdrew his amendment, saying he would draft a letter expressing concerns with U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, who chairs the House subcommittee that oversees NASA funding.

Several U.S. launch companies did not submit proposals to use pad 39A, including ATK, Orbital Sciences Corp. and United Launch Alliance, a joint venture owned by The Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp.

ULA, however, which builds Atlas V and Delta IV rockets in Alabama and is competing with SpaceX to launch NASA crews and potentially national security satellites, has written Blue Origin a letter supporting its concept for Launch Complex 39.

Blue Origin, for its part, is proposing that Pad 39A become a versatile multi-use facility that could be the embarkation point for all kinds of rockets. That would include SpaceX’s vehicles, those of the United Launch Alliance and, of course, Blue Origin’s own missions. United Launch Alliance, which didn’t vie for use of the pad, did write Blue Origin a letter of support for its multi-use concept. Blue Origin plans suborbital flights by 2015 and orbital flights by 2018.

Sidjay a écrit:

…heu…je le sens de moins en moins ce programme…

Space Opera a écrit:Là, tu remets en cause le principe même de la politique actuelle de la NASA.