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Topic: Pre-Columbia (2003) efforts toward spaceflight participants on the shuttle
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music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 01-26-2010 08:13 AM
   
In another topic, Robert Pearlman detailed the contribution of Space Adventures in flying spaceflight participants on Russian spacecraft, and also added: And a similar effort was nearly underway for the U.S. space shuttle when the loss of Columbia curtailed those plans. I was not aware of this... Anyone would care to give details?------------------
Francois Guay
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-26-2010 08:37 AM
There were several different approaches being explored, some that came very close to being fulfilled.Paving the way, was the White House's FY2003 budget proposal, which suggested privatizing the space shuttle. Competitive sourcing will enable the full transfer of shuttle operations and possibly some portion of infrastructure ownership to a private entity. Even before then though, as championed by Buzz Aldrin, there was an effort to have Congress insert text into an authorization bill that would extend the definition of secondary payloads to include passengers within the existing operations framework managed by United Space Alliance (USA). USA was already tasked with identifying secondary commercial payloads that could take advantage of unused cargo capacity by NASA.And then there was the deal nearly sealed with CNN's now-former anchor Miles O'Brien, who was slated to become the first journalist to fly aboard the shuttle. In September 2002, NASA and CNN had a "green-light lunch" and concluded a new policy for taking journalists, artists and writers into space. The program was to be announced two weeks after the flight of the Columbia. | |
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