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  • Excalibur Almaz space station & crew vehicle

    A NewSpace company to watch. They're using improved/modernized versions of the Russian TKS spacecraft and Almaz (Salut) space station module. Quite a list of people involved;

    CEO: space law expert Arthur M. Dula

    Space Commercialization: J. Buckner Hightower, an aerospace business pro who has worked with Russian space bureaus since 1988

    Spacecraft Ops: NASA asrronaut & ISS Commander Leriy Chiao

    Advisory Board:

    former NASA Johnson Space Center Director George Abbey

    former NASA Kennedy Space Center Director and President of Lockheed Martin Space Operations Jay F. Honeycutt

    former NASA astronaut and VASIMR plasma engine inventor Franklin Chang-Diaz

    former French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien

    Former Russian cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Yuri Glazkov

    Spacesuits & Crew Environments: Dr. Jonathan Clark - former NASA flight surgeon (his wife died on Columbia.)

    Press release....







    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 6 January 2011, 16:54.
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