{"id":9331,"date":"2010-02-18T21:15:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/csf-announces-new-research-and-education-affiliates-program-initial-participating-universities\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T21:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:15:21","slug":"csf-announces-new-research-and-education-affiliates-program-initial-participating-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/csf-announces-new-research-and-education-affiliates-program-initial-participating-universities.php","title":{"rendered":"CSF Announces New Research and Education Affiliates Program, Initial Participating Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. \u2013 <\/strong>At the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference today, Commercial Spaceflight Federation chairman Mark Sirangelo announced the creation of a new affiliates program for universities and other research and educational institutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cResearchers, engineers, and educators will be among the primary beneficiaries of the new generation of low-cost commercial spacecraft, as payload opportunities to space start to grow,\u201d said Mark Sirangelo, Chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re excited to create a new category of affiliate membership to strengthen the ties between the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and the research and education community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Initial participating universities include Purdue University, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and George Mason University.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to see universities and other research institutions getting in on the ground floor of the emerging commercial space industry, and to see these early adopters recognizing the research and education potential of these new vehicles,\u201d said space scientist S. Alan Stern, chair of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation\u2019s Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG) and former NASA associate administrator for science.<\/p>\n

Benefits to affiliate institutions of joining with the Commercial Spaceflight Federation include: helping connect students with internships in the commercial spaceflight industry, becoming more connected with the commercial spaceflight community, advocacy to increase government support for research payloads on commercial vehicles, and efforts to streamline regulatory processes for research flights.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking forward to continuing to grow the collaborations between the research community and the commercial space industry,\u201d added Sirangelo.<\/p>\n

About the Commercial Spaceflight Federation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mission of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) is to promote the development of commercial human spaceflight, pursue ever higher levels of safety, and share best practices and expertise throughout the industry. \u00a0CSF member organizations include commercial spaceflight developers, operators, and spaceports.\u00a0 The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is governed by a board of directors, composed of the member companies\u2019 CEO-level officers and entrepreneurs. For more information please visit http:\/\/www.commercialspaceflight.org<\/a> or contact Executive Director John Gedmark at john@commercialspaceflight.org<\/a> or at 202.349.1121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. \u2013 At the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference today, Commercial Spaceflight Federation chairman Mark Sirangelo announced the creation of a new affiliates program for universities and other research and educational institutions.\u00a0 \u201cResearchers, engineers, and educators will be among the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-flight"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}