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157157
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NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program showed the potential of private-public partnerships (PPPs) to reduce cost of access to space, producing two launch vehicles and cargo capsules in record time and with a factor 20 cost reduction. This program was followed by the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), aiming to provide affordable human access to space, which should end in 2017 with the first flight of a commercial crew capsule. The same team that created COTS is now proposing the Lunar Commercial Orbital Transfer Services (LCOTS) program, with the goal of developing cislunar capabilities, establish a human outpost on the Moon, and reduce cost and risk for future Mars missions. Private-public partnerships seem to be becoming NASA's tool of choice to develop affordable human access to space, increase capabilities, and incentivize the private space sector for a much lower cost than previous approaches. This paper wants to expand the use of the COTS-like programs by developing a concept of a COTS program for asteroid mining, simply referred to as Asteroid-COTS, or ACOTS for short. The paper uses the same methodology of the proposed LCOTS program, proposing a phased-development approach and evaluating which capabilities should be included in the program with a similar scheme. The result is a high-level ACOTS proposal with several synergies with the LCOTS program, and which could lead to the creation of a cislunar infrastructure to support permanent human presence in space.
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The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is based in Houston, Texas and focuses on manned space flight, conducting space research and development, providing mission control, and training of US astronauts. In 1961 the Manned Spacecraft Center grew out of the Space Task Group based in Langley, Virginia, that had been formed in 1958 with an original workforce of 45 people. When President Kennedy in 1961 posed the goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade, NASA realised that a more expanded capability would be needed, at a new site. The Clearlake, Houston site was announced in 1961, selected out of a total of 23 sites under consideration. The organization received its current name in 1973 in honor of US President Lyndon B. Johnson. Gradually JSC grew to its current personnel size of 14,000, 3000 of which are civil servants and 11,000 contractors. Over the years JSC has had primary responsibility for the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs, as well as the International Space Station and Orion
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This article discusses the basic philosophy behind India's space strategy based on ideological, sociological, political, economic, geostrategic and legal constructs. The paper uses the metaphor of “deconstruction” made famous by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida's (1930–2004) to understand various transitions (if any) in India's space policy over the years and the philosophy behind them. The paper follows a ‘narrative based scrutiny’ approach to recognise Indian attitude for investments into space technologies.
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The objectives of this study are to review prior research which analyzes the space industry from management perspectives and to show that there is much more scope to analyze it for providing suggestions about management in the industry growth. There are two clusters of prior research, focusing on risk management and technology management. Certain other research themes are dispersed across several fields and do not form clusters. As conclusions, the two suggestions are provided about those fields that require increased research attention in future; first is organizational behavior to improve efficiency of business operations and to get business opportunities, and second is public support for designing appropriate business environments, which facilitate firms to generate new business in the space industry.
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The past couple of years have witnesses one of the most exciting, yet controversial, developments in the field of space law, namely the adoption of domestic laws authorizing the (private) appropriation and utilization of outer space resources. Even though the technology to effectively mine resources in outer space is still under development countries like the United States and Luxembourg have taken this legislative step as a mean to promote the growth of a domestic private space mining sector.
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