session 2

Title

Commercial Human Spaceflight Programs

Description

This session provides a forum for papers describing commercial human orbital and sub-orbital spacecraft and stations in development, as well as human-rated launch vehicles and human-tended modules. Topics include the status of development, testing, and operations; the architecture and performance of various systems; launch infrastructure development; and other pertinent areas of commercial human spaceflight development. Programs such as Atlas 5, B330, CST-100, Cygnus, Dream Chaser, Dragon, Falcon 9, Lynx, New Shepard, Spaceplane, SpaceShipTwo, WhiteKnightTwo, and others are appropriate for this session.

Date

2014-09-30

Time

09:45

Room

715B

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Dr. Sergey K. Shaevich, Khrunichev State Research & Production Space Center, Russian Federation;

• Co-Chair: Dr. W. Michael Hawes, Lockheed Martin Corporation, United States;

• Co-Chair: Mr. Michael E. Lopez Alegria, MLA Space, LLC, United States;