{"id":9476,"date":"2010-02-21T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/other-conference-announcements\/"},"modified":"2010-02-21T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T11:09:10","slug":"other-conference-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/other-conference-announcements.php","title":{"rendered":"Other conference announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the developments by several vehicle operators, there have been a number of other announcements by various organizations at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpi.usra.edu\/meetings\/nsrc2010\/\">Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference<\/a>.  The biggest, in the plenary speech by NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver, is that NASA has requested $15 million for the Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) program in its FY11 budget.  That&#8217;s a major increase over the $2.5 million the program is getting in the current fiscal year, split among the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD), Science Mission Directorate (SMD), and the Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP).  The $15 million in the FY11 budget proposal would come entirely from IPP.  In addition, Garver said the five-year budget plan funds CRuSR at the same level throughout the period (although that is subject to change from year to year.)<\/p>\n<p>Other organizations are putting up money for suborbital research as well.  The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swri.org\/9what\/releases\/2010\/Pioneer.htm\">it&#8217;s allocating $1 million to commercial suborbital research efforts<\/a>, specifically to &#8220;build and fly experiments with SwRI payload specialists on next-generation suborbital vehicles.&#8221;  This effort is led by Alan Stern, who has been one of the leading proponents of &#8220;research and education market&#8221; (REM) uses of commercial suborbital vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Commercial Spaceflight Federation, meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialspaceflight.org\/?p=1108\">is expanding its membership to include academic affiliates<\/a>.  Purdue University, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and George Mason University are the initial four institutions affiliating themselves with the CSF, a NewSpace industry organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides the developments by several vehicle operators, there have been a number of other announcements by various organizations at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference. The biggest, in the plenary speech by NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver, is that NASA has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/other-conference-announcements.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-9476","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\/9476"}],"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=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}