Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. There are several different types of space tourism,including orbital,suborbital and lunar space tourism.
Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is a former Administrator of NASA,a retired United States Marine Corps Major General,and a former astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
Michael Douglas Griffin is an American physicist and aerospace engineer who served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Deputy of Technology for the Strategic Defense Initiative,and as Administrator of NASA from April 13,2005,to January 20,2009. As NASA Administrator Griffin oversaw such areas as private spaceflight,future human spaceflight to Mars,and the fate of the Hubble telescope.
Shana L. Dale is an American politician and lawyer. She served as the Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the George W. Bush administration from 2005 to 2009.
Dava J. Newman is an American aerospace engineer. She is the director of the MIT Media Lab and a former deputy administrator of NASA. Newman is the Apollo Program Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been a faculty member in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and MIT's School of Engineering since 1993.
George Thomas Whitesides is an American businessman and public official. He was CSO and long time CEO of Virgin Galactic,a firm developing commercial space vehicles at the Mojave Air and Space Port. He still serves as a member of the Virgin Galactic Advisory Board. Whitesides was previously Chief of Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Administrator Charles Bolden,a position to which he was named after serving on the NASA transition team for the incoming Obama administration. On February 22,2023,he announced his candidacy for California's 27th congressional district in the 2024 election.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program,aeronautics research,and space research. Established in 1958,NASA succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the U.S. space development effort a distinctly civilian orientation,emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. NASA has since led most American space exploration,including Project Mercury,Project Gemini,the 1968–1972 Apollo Moon landing missions,the Skylab space station,and the Space Shuttle. NASA currently supports the International Space Station and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the crewed lunar Artemis program,the Commercial Crew spacecraft,and the planned Lunar Gateway space station.
The National Space Council is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States created in 1989 during the George H. W. Bush administration,disbanded in 1993,and reestablished in June 2017 by the Donald Trump administration. It is a modified version of the earlier National Aeronautics and Space Council (1958–1973).
Scott Norman Pace currently serves as Director of the Space Policy Institute,Director of the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy and Director of the MA International Science and Technology Policy program at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He served as the Executive Secretary of the National Space Council from July 2017 to January 2021,when he resigned. Pace was formerly the Director of the Space Policy Institute at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University,where he was also a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs.
Avascent is a boutique management consulting firm serving the defense,aerospace,homeland security,logistics,transit,and financial industries. It was formed in 2007 after a management-led buyout of DFI Corporate Services from its parent,DFI International.
The Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee,better known as the HSF Committee,Augustine Commission,or Augustine Committee,was a group convened by NASA at the request of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),to review the nation's human spaceflight plans to ensure "a vigorous and sustainable path to achieving its boldest aspirations in space." The review was announced by the OSTP on May 7,2009. It covered human spaceflight options after the time NASA had planned to retire the Space Shuttle. A summary report was provided to the OSTP Director John Holdren,White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),and NASA Administrator on September 8,2009. The estimated cost associated with the review was expected to be US$3 million. The committee was scheduled to be active for 180 days;the report was released on October 22,2009.
The space policy of the Barack Obama administration was announced by U.S. President Barack Obama on April 15,2010,at a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center. He committed to increasing NASA funding by $6 billion over five years and completing the design of a new heavy-lift launch vehicle by 2015 and to begin construction thereafter. He also predicted a U.S.-crewed orbital Mars mission by the mid-2030s,preceded by the Asteroid Redirect Mission by 2025. In response to concerns over job losses,Obama promised a $40 million effort to help Space Coast workers affected by the cancellation of the Space Shuttle program and Constellation program.
The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon landing program,SLS is designed to launch the crewed Orion spacecraft on a trans-lunar trajectory. The first SLS launch was the uncrewed Artemis 1,which took place on 16 November 2022.
The Wolf Amendment is a law passed by the United States Congress in 2011,named after then–United States Representative Frank Wolf,that prohibits the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from using government funds to engage in direct,bilateral cooperation with the Chinese government and China-affiliated organizations from its activities without explicit authorization from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Congress. It has been inserted annually into appropriations bills since then.
Patricia Grace Smith was a United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) associate administrator whose regulatory work helped make personal space travel a possibility.
The Brooke Owens Fellowship is a non-profit program in the United States that provides paid internships and executive mentorship for undergraduate women seeking a career in aviation or space exploration. The fellowship was created to honor the memory of Brooke Owens,a pilot and space policy expert who died of cancer at the age of 36.
Axiom Space,Inc.,also known as Axiom Space,is an American privately funded space infrastructure developer headquartered in Houston,Texas.
Dawn Brooke Owens was an American pilot and space policy expert. She worked with NASA,the Federal Aviation Administration and the White House. The Brooke Owens Fellowship was established in 2017 to honour the considerable contributions Owens made to the American space industry.
The Artemis program is a robotic and human Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) along with six major partner agencies—the European Space Agency (ESA),the German Aerospace Center (DLR),the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA),the Canadian Space Agency (CSA),the Israel Space Agency (ISA),and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The Artemis program is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The main parts of the program are the Space Launch System (SLS),the Orion spacecraft,the Lunar Gateway space station,and the commercial Human Landing Systems. The program's long-term goal is to establish a permanent base on the Moon to facilitate the feasibility of human missions to Mars.
