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Nasa's Commercial Crew Transportation System Requirements And The Faa Human Spaceflight Regulations: A Study In Contrasts?, Mark J. Sundahl
Nasa's Commercial Crew Transportation System Requirements And The Faa Human Spaceflight Regulations: A Study In Contrasts?, Mark J. Sundahl
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On December 10, 2010, NASA issued the second version of the technical requirements that will be imposed on private companies that provide orbital crew transportation services to NASA. These Commercial Crew Transportation System Requirements for NASA Low Earth Orbit Missions impose a multitude of operational and design requirements that, among other things, extend many existing NASA technical requirements to private service providers. The sheer volume of these requirements is daunting – being composed of a collection of approximately 80 existing NASA guidelines on various areas from crew health and safety to power systems, wiring, and orbital debris mitigation. This approach …