George Nield, Deputy Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation

04/29/05 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Right now we're getting an update from George Nield. Right now he's doing a review of things from the last Space Access. Now he's covering market surveys from Futron.

Good slide:

With a fleet of 5 vehicles carrying 5 passengers per flight and two flights per week, by 2010 Virgin Galactic will have put more people in space than have ever been flown by any country.

Announcement: AIAA leading a cooperative effort to put out guidelines on RLV critical safety systems. These are industry developed guides for vehicle developers to help understand potential safety issues.

Editor comment: the problem with these is that many times those “guidelines” make their way into regulations simply because they exist. A perfect example is the fact that much of amateur rocketry is regulated by NPRM “guidelines” when local governments delegate authoriity to those “guidelines”.