NASA has announced the formation of the Commercial Crew\/Cargo Project Office to evaluate possibilities in private industry support for low-cost access to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and the International Space Station (ISS). <\/p>\n
The office will be looking into ways of utilizing commercial industry support as part of President Bush\u2019s Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) as the States aims to take the next step in their primary role \u2013 a return to the Moon.\n<\/p>\n
The office is being set up at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston and is part of the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, with Alan J. Lindenmoyer named as project manager. <\/font> <\/font> The office will manage orbital transportation capability demonstration projects that may lead to the procurement of commercial cargo and crew transportation services to resupply the space station.<\/font> \u2018There are many in the private sector that are eager to develop commercially viable space transportation systems,\u2019 said Scott Horowitz, associate administrator, NASA\u2019s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate in a NASA press release today. <\/font> <\/font> \u2018In the future, the commercial sector will provide cost effective access to space for both crew and cargo. While NASA must develop its own capabilities for space exploration, the commercial sector will eventually provide these services when it becomes cost effective. I am very excited to have Alan leading this effort. His skill, enthusiasm and dedication to developing commercial space will be key to enabling this fledgling industry.\u2019<\/p>\n Lindenmoyer joined NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., in 1982 as a cooperative education student. He worked there as a flight structures engineer until moving to NASA Headquarters in 1987. At Headquarters, he served as a structural dynamics engineer for the space station Freedom program.<\/p>\n He moved to Johnson in 1990. He held progressively more responsible positions in the international space station program, most recently including technical integration manager and contracting officer\u2019s technical representative.<\/p>\n Lindenmoyer received a bachelor\u2019s degree in engineering and a commercial\/instrument pilot certificate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona beach, Fla. He received a master\u2019s degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, Md.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA has announced the formation of the Commercial Crew\/Cargo Project Office to evaluate possibilities in private industry support for low-cost access to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and the International Space Station (ISS). The office will be looking into ways of utilizing commercial industry support as part of President Bush\u2019s Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/font><\/font> In testimony before a Congressional committee last week, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said, \u2018Later this month NASA will issue a draft solicitation requesting commercial service demonstrations for space station crew and cargo delivery and return. <\/font> <\/font> \u2018Where commercial providers have demonstrated the ability to meet NASA\u2019s needs and safety requirements, commercial services will be purchased instead of using government assets and operations.\u2019<\/p>\n