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Report to COMSTAC of the RLV Working Group

Report to COMSTAC of the RLV Working Group. Discussion Items. New Leadership of RLV Working Group Discussion of RLV Task Force on Training Report Presentation on IAF Commercial Spaceflight Safety Committee John Sloan and Brooke Owens, FAA/AST

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Report to COMSTAC of the RLV Working Group

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  1. Report to COMSTAC of the RLV Working Group

  2. Discussion Items • New Leadership of RLV Working Group • Discussion of RLV Task Force on Training Report • Presentation on IAF Commercial Spaceflight Safety Committee John Sloan and Brooke Owens, FAA/AST • Establishing Priorities for the RLV Working Group • Establishing a Lessons Learned Database 2

  3. Leadership of RLV WG • Previous Chair – George Whitesides • Now Senior Advisor to the NASA Administrator • New Chair – Bretton Alexander • President, Personal Spaceflight Federation • Was Deputy Chair from October 2008 • New Deputy Chair – Jeff Greason • President, XCOR Aerospace

  4. RLV Task Force on Training Draft Report • Comprehensive study of potential spaceflight training approaches and structures: • Commercial space operations jobs that may require training standards • Training standards: approach and recommendation • Implementation recommendations • Draft report submitted by Task Force to RLV WG in November 2008 • Draft report provided to COMSTAC members for comment in April 2009 • RLV WG to continue review of draft report 4

  5. IAF Commercial Spaceflight Safety Committee • FAA/AST Presentation by: John Sloan and Brooke Owens • FAA/AST is chairing the IAF Commercial Spaceflight Safety Committee, established in 2008 • Co-chairs are Virgin Galactic and Swedish Space Corp. • Two main goals of the committee: • Generate a dialogue on safety and regulatory policy issues, identify and advance best practices to maximize safety and international compatibility • Create & run technical paper session for 2010 International Astronautical Congress and beyond • Members include commercial industry, government agencies and academia • First meeting is October 2009 in Daejeon, South Korea at the International Astronautical Congress

  6. Establishing Priorities for the RLV WG • Develop top priorities for RLV Working Group • Align RLV WG activities with long-term industry and FAA/AST needs • Develop priorities by next RLV WG meeting in October 2009

  7. Lessons Learned Database • FAA/AST sought RLV WG opinion on whether a voluntary public lessons learned database would be of interest to the industry • RLV WG recommends that FAA/AST implement a lessons learned database • Dialogue with industry on implementation details

  8. Contact Bretton Alexander, Chair President, Personal Spaceflight Federation 1725 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 703-627-1692 cell Jeff Greason, Deputy Chair President, XCOR Aerospace PO Box 1163 Mojave, CA 93502 661-824-4714 8

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