# Presentation: 706031

## Working Group Kick-Off Meeting

**May 15, 2001**
**John F. Kennedy Space Center**

## 8:30	Welcome/opening remarks		Phil Weber – S&RT Project Manager
8:45	Spaceport & Range Technology	Al Sofge – NASA HQ Code M
		Development Initiative
9:00	Developing a Common		Roy Bridges – KSC Director
		Spaceport Strategy
9:15	2nd & 3rd Gen RLV Update		Steve Cook – MSFC 3rd Gen Program Mgr
9:45	ASTWG Draft Charter		Randy Eastman – ASTWG Chair
10:00	Spaceport Development		Phil Weber - Overview
		- Environmental Issues		Mario Busacca – KSC Env. Program
		- Master Planning Process		Robin Sutherland – 45th Civil Engr. Sqdn.
10:30	Break
10:45	KSC Spaceport Engineering &	Ken Payne -  SE&T Acting Director
		Technology			Dave Bartine – KSC Chief Technologist
11:20	Advanced Technology		Greg Clements – ATDC Project Mgr.
		Development Center
11:50	Advanced Range Technology		Rich Nelson – ARTWG Co-Chair
		Overview
12:00	Lunch

**8:45****	****Spaceport & Range Technology****	****Al Sofge – NASA HQ Code M**
**	****	****Development Initiative**
**9:00****	****Developing a Common****	****	****Roy Bridges – KSC Director**
**	****	****Spaceport Strategy**
**9:15****	****2****nd**** & 3****rd**** Gen RLV Update****	****	****Steve Cook – MSFC 3****rd ****Gen Program Mgr**
**9:45****	****ASTWG Draft Charter****	****	****Randy Eastman – ASTWG Chair**
**10:00****	****Spaceport Development****	****	****Phil Weber - Overview**
**	****	****- Environmental Issues****	****	****Mario Busacca – KSC Env. Program**
**	****	****- Master Planning Process****	****	****Robin Sutherland – 45****th**** Civil Engr. Sqdn.**
**10:30****	****Break**
**10:45****	****KSC Spaceport Engineering &****	****Ken Payne -  SE&T Acting Director**
**	****	****Technology****	****	****	****Dave Bartine – KSC Chief Technologist**
**11:20****	****Advanced Technology****	****	****Greg Clements – ATDC Project Mgr.**
**	****	****Development Center**
**11:50****	****Advanced Range Technology****	****	****Rich Nelson – ARTWG Co-Chair**
**	****	****Overview**
**12:00****	****Lunch**

**Agenda**

***“******There's time enough, but none to spare.”  Charles W. Chesnutt ***

## 1:30	Perspectives on Spaceport Development
		- States				Tim Huddleston – NCSS Chair
		- Industry/Future Markets		Eric Stallmer – Space Trans Assoc.	
		- Academia			John Wefel – Space Grant Directors
		- Commercial Spaceports		Ed Gormel – Spaceport Florida Authority
						Larry Gooch – California Space Authority
		FAA Licensing			Stewart Jackson – FAA AST
		GMU Spaceport Study		John Sheahan – George Mason U.	
3:30	Break
3:45	Open discussion & information	All participants
		sharing
4:45	Wrap-up/closing remarks		Phil Weber/Randy Eastman
5:00	Adjourn

6:30	Dinner at Apollo/Saturn V Ctr.

**	****	****- States****	****	****	****	****Tim Huddleston – NCSS Chair**
**	****	****- Industry/Future Markets****	****	****Eric Stallmer – Space Trans Assoc.****	**
**	****	****- Academia****	****	****	****John Wefel – Space Grant Directors**
**	****	****- Commercial Spaceports****	****	****Ed Gormel – Spaceport Florida Authority**
**	****	****	****	****	****	****Larry Gooch – California Space Authority**
**	****	****FAA Licensing****	****	****	****Stewart Jackson – FAA AST**
**	****	****GMU Spaceport Study****	****	****John Sheahan – George Mason U.****	**
**3:30****	****Break**
**3:45****	****Open discussion & information****	****All participants**
**	****	****sharing**
**4:45****	****Wrap-up/closing remarks****	****	****Phil Weber/Randy Eastman**
**5:00****	****Adjourn**
**6:30****	****Dinner at Apollo/Saturn V Ctr.**

**Agenda**

***“******You will never ‘find’ time for anything.  If you want time you must make it.”***
***Charles Buxton ***

## General

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***“******If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”  Yogi Berra ***

## Purpose of ASTWG

**Increased NASA focus on research and development in addition to continuing safe operations**
**KSC reorganized in May 2000**
**Kennedy Space Center = Spaceport Technology Center**
**Spaceport Engineering & Technology Directorate formed**
**Development of Spaceport and Range Technologies was recently added to KSC’s mission by NASA Administrator**
**Initial vision for ASTWG was to focus on specific technical issues and challenges**
**Recent studies have indicated that States interested in Spaceport development are currently at varying levels of maturity in their Spaceport activities**
**RTI Market Study**
**Range from “interested and listening” to fully licensed**

***“******What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars.”  Christa McAuliffe ***

## Purpose of ASTWG

**What ASTWG is:**
**An opportunity for federal & state government agencies, industry, and academia to work together to develop a common strategy for Spaceport development**
**A forum open to all stakeholders of the aerospace community to discuss issues related to the development of Spaceports**
**A mechanism for establishing partnerships with NASA/KSC**
**A benefit to all states, not just those with existing Spaceports**
**What ASTWG is **_**not**_**:**
**A funding source**
**Input & partnering  vs.  NRA, RFP, etc.**
**A bureaucratic roadblock/impediment to technology development**
**“****Inviting” vs. “imposing”**
**A forum for range technologies (separate ARTWG)**

***“******Science has not yet mastered prophecy.  We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next ten.”  Neil Armstrong***

## ASTWG Kick-Off Meeting

**Purpose**
**Allow all sectors of aerospace community (federal and state government, industry, academia) to be involved early in formulation of ASTWG charter**
**Provide an overview of current and planned activities that have an impact on future Spaceport development**
**NASA/KSC projects & initiatives**
**Other organizations**
**Proactive vs. reactive**
**Gradual process**
**Building relationships**

***“******The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experiment skill.”  Albert Einstein***

## ASTWG Kick-Off Meeting

**Desired outcomes**
**Awareness of current and planned Spaceport activities**
**Receive input/comments/suggestions from participants to shape purpose and direction of ASTWG**
**Gain support of aerospace community for ASTWG**
**Identify key players in Spaceport development**
**Open lines of communication**
**Solicit volunteers & sub-group leaders **
**Sub-Groups**
**Standing:  Technical focus areas, education/outreach, policy, commerce, web page, benchmarking, etc.**
**Temporary:  Charter development, others as needed**
**Topics and speakers for future presentations**

***“******If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.”  Abraham Lincoln***

## 

Spaceport and Range Technology
Development Initiative

Al Sofge
NASA Headquarters

**Spaceport and Range Technology**
**Development Initiative**
**Al Sofge**
**NASA Headquarters**

## 

Developing a Common Spaceport Strategy

Roy Bridges
Center Director
Kennedy Space Center

**Developing a Common Spaceport Strategy**
**Roy Bridges**
**Center Director**
**Kennedy Space Center**

## 

2nd and 3rd Generation RLV Update

Steve Cook
Marshall Space Flight Center

**2****nd**** and 3****rd**** Generation RLV Update**
**Steve Cook**
**Marshall Space Flight Center**

## 

ASTWG
Draft Charter

Randy Eastman
ASTWG Chair
Kennedy Space Center

**ASTWG**
**Draft Charter**
**Randy Eastman**
**ASTWG Chair**
**Kennedy Space Center**

## ASTWG Draft Charter - Vision

**Elements**
**Inspiring goal or objective**
**Desired future state**
**Optimistic**
**Concise and easy to remember**
**Example for consideration:**
**As aerospace leaders from government, industry and academia, we will promote the development of Advanced Spaceport Technologies that will facilitate the safe and cost-effective operation of existing and future generations of launch vehicles to serve America’s space access needs into the future.**
**ASTWG can form a sub-group to further refine and “wordsmith” the vision and mission statements**

***“******Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”  George Washington Carver ***

## ASTWG Draft Charter - Mission

**Elements**
**A clearly understood sense of purpose**
**Shared by all members**
**Alignment and buy-in to a common objective**
**Example for consideration:**
**The development of Advanced Spaceport Technologies is essential to enable the safer, lower-cost access to space that will make future spaceports technically and economically viable.  In support of this goal, this working group will:**
**Develop a common strategy within the aerospace community for the development of Spaceport technologies.**
**Provide a forum and mechanism for the communication and coordination of Spaceport technology development activities.**
**Promote awareness of current initiatives in the aerospace community to foster collaboration, identify technology gaps, and minimize unnecessary duplication of effort.**

***“******Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”***
***John F. Kennedy***

## ASTWG Draft Charter - Goals

**Increase future market opportunities by lowering the cost of access to space**
**Concurrently develop Spaceport technologies with vehicle development**
**A synergistic approach to reducing operations costs**
**Respond to stakeholders program needs and requirements**
**Leveraging of available Spaceport development resources nationwide**
**Become the main source of Spaceport technology information**

***“******Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”***
***Henry Ford ***

## ASTWG Draft Charter - Stakeholders

** **
** **
**Advanced Spaceport Technology**
**Working Group**

**States**

**NASA**
** ****Centers/Facilities**
** **

** **
**Industry**
** **

**Commercial**
**Spaceports**

** **
**Implementation**

** **
**Advisory Board/**
**Steering Committee**

** **
**Academia**

**Other Federal**
**Agencies, DoD**

**The ASTWG creates an open environment for sharing information, understanding stakeholder issues and concerns, and providing a synergistic approach to Advanced Spaceport Technology Development.   **

***“******We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.”  Eleanor Roosevelt ***

## ASTWG Draft Charter - Membership

**Led by NASA/KSC**
**Chair**
**Advisory board**
**Government, industry, and academia representation**
**Sub-groups**
**Leads**
**Members**
**Open to all members of aerospace community**
**Federal and state government**
**Industry**
**Academia**

***“******Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds..” ***
***Alexander Graham Bell***

## ASTWG Draft Charter - Implementation

**Develop common vision**
**for future spaceports**

**Develop roadmaps to achieve**
**desired future state**

**Identify technology**
**“****gaps and overlaps”**

**Develop technology**
**selection criteria**

**Identify candidate**
**technologies**

**Prioritize technologies**
** ****according to criteria**

**Develop technology**
**prioritization criteria**

**Prioritized list reviewed and**
**approved by Advisory Board**

**ASTWG Chair submits**
** ****technology list to**
** ****S&RT Manager**

**Begin development of**
** ****selected technologies**

***“******If you think you can or can’t, you’re right.”  Henry Ford***

## ASTWG Draft Charter - Logistics

**Meetings**
**Frequency**
**Every 6 months to start**
**Adjust as necessary**
**Coordinate with other aerospace events to avoid conflicts and minimize travel**
**Location**
**Either always at KSC or rotate around to different hosts**
**Possible telecons and video conferencing**
**Subgroups/committees**
**Meet offline as needed to prepare material for presentation at main ASTWG meetings**

***“******The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.”  Abraham Lincoln***

## ASTWG Draft Charter - Effectiveness

**Measuring the effectiveness/impact of ASTWG**
**Stakeholder satisfaction**
**Resource leveraging**
**Establish major milestones in each focus area**
**Measure level of participation in subgroups**
**Evaluate cost-avoidance resultant from technologies implemented**
**Others?**

***“******Just because you can count it, doesn’t mean it counts.”  Unknown ***

## ASTWG Draft Charter - Products

**Services via partnerships**
**Technology selection criteria**
**Technology prioritization criteria**
**Prioritized lists of technologies to develop**
**Recommendations**
**Reports**
**Roadmaps**
**Web page**
**Minutes**
**Others.....**

***“******We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”  Wernher von Braun ***

## 
Spaceport Development

Phil Weber
KSC Spaceport & Range Technology Manager

Mario Busacca
KSC Environmental Program Office

Robin Sutherland
45th Civil Engineer Squadron

**Spaceport Development**
**Phil Weber**
**KSC Spaceport & Range Technology Manager**
**Mario Busacca**
**KSC Environmental Program Office**
**Robin Sutherland**
**45****th**** Civil Engineer Squadron**

##     A collection of critical operations and maintenance functions supporting space transportation
In-Line Functions
Landing/Recovery
Expendable Elements
Turnaround
Assembly/Integration
Launch

On-Line Support Functions
Traffic/Flight Control
Payload/Cargo
Logistics
System Operations Planning & Management
Spaceport Support Infrastructure

Off-Line Functions
Depot Maintenance
Community Infrastructure

**Traffic/**
**Flt Control**

*    **A collection of critical operations and maintenance functions supporting space transportation*
- _In-Line Functions_
- Landing/Recovery
- Expendable Elements
- Turnaround
- Assembly/Integration
- Launch
- _On-Line Support Functions_
- Traffic/Flight Control
- Payload/Cargo
- Logistics
- System Operations Planning & Management
- Spaceport Support Infrastructure
- _Off-Line Functions_
- Depot Maintenance
- Community Infrastructure

**Community Infrastructure**

**Landing /**
**Recovery**

**Assembly/**
**Integration**

**Launch**

**Turnaround**

**Payload/**
**Cargo**

**Logistics**

**System Operations Planning & Mgmt**

**Spaceport Support Infrastructure**

**What is a Spaceport?**

**Notes:**
Need Visual Flowchart here showing ALL 12 Modules and how they potentially interact

## Why are Spaceport Technologies Important?

-  Historically, the majority of total life
- cycle cost for any complex system is
- attributed to operations and support
- activities
-  60-80% of life cycle cost
-  These costs are set early in design
-  Developing and infusing advanced
- spaceport technologies in current and
- future space transportation systems
- enables NASA to meet its goals of:
-  Orders of magnitude improvements in
-    operational safety (ground and flight)
-  Orders of magnitude reductions in life cycle costs
-  Rapid expansion of commercial markets using space
-    transportation and microgravity

**Why are Spaceport Technologies Important?**

***“******Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”  Arthur C. Clarke***

## Spaceport Challenges

**No one solution will fit all situations**
**Type of vehicle**
**RLV or ELV?**
**Single or multi-stage?**
**Manned or unmanned?**
**Vertical or horizontal take-off?**
**Orbital or sub-orbital?**
**Polar or equatorial orbit?**
**Solid or liquid fuels?**
**Etc.**

***“******Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.”  Amelia Earhart ***

## Spaceport Challenges

**Geographic considerations**
**Latitude**
**Elevation**
**Topography**
**Climate**
**Range**
**Environmental concerns**
**Proximity to population centers**
**Existing infrastructure**
**Etc.**

***“******Space isn’t remote at all.  It’s only and hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”  Fred Hoyle***

## Spaceport Challenges

**Economic**
**Must be a market need**
**New vehicle programs typically allocate only 3% of budget to development of ground operations technologies**
**Based on current experience, operations cost for RLV’s is greater than acquisition cost in terms of overall life cycle**
**More efficient operations can reduce cost per pound to orbit in two ways:**
**Lower mission-specific costs (manpower, propellant, etc.)**
**Lowering the amount of fixed acquisition costs (fleet, ground infrastructure) associated with each mission by increasing flight rate**

***“******If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion.”***
***George Bernard Shaw***

## Identifying Technology “Gaps and Overlaps”

**Need to first understand who is working on what within the aerospace community**
**Survey end-users to gauge specific areas where technology advancement is needed**
**Assess overlaps for key partnerships and consolidation**
**Assess gaps and prioritize new development activities**
**Benchmark with other launch sites worldwide**
**Lessons learned**
**Best practices**

***“******Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully.  Your idea has to be original only in it’s adaptation to the problem you’re working on.”  Thomas Edison***

## Criteria Selection/weighting &Technology Prioritization

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| Technology Candidate 2 |
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**Increased safety**

**Appl. to mult. programs**

**Improved efficiency**

**Meets customer reqs.**

**Time to tech. readiness**

**Funding required**

**Risk     **

**Partnerships**

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**Example:**
**Each technology rated on a**
**1-5 scale (5 highest) with**
**respect to each criterion**

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## Technology Readiness Levels (TRL)

***“******The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”  Edward Teller***

## Partnering with NASA/KSC

**Memorandum of Understanding**
**Statement of policy, practice or intention affecting a concern of NASA and a partner**
**No transfer of funds or resources; no goods or services delivered to NASA**
**Non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement**
**Collaborative R&D effort with NASA and partner contributions of resources and technology, but no transfer of funds**
**Supports industry needs and shares results in a collaborative effort.  No reimbursement to NASA is required.**
**Reimbursable Space Act Agreement**
**Collaborative R&D effort with partner use of NASA resources, reimbursed by the partner**
**NASA is reimbursed for full or partial cost**

## Partnering with NASA/KSC

**Cooperative Agreement**
**Jointly funded research with partners under the Chiles Act to stimulate and support innovative new technologies and products for commercialization**
**Substantial involvement between NASA and the recipient**
**Technology Assistance Request**
**Agreement with external entities enabling them to obtain information and/or technical assistance from NASA**
**Unilateral with no transfer of funds or resources**
**Cost Shared Contract**
**Contract arrangement to provide direct goods or services to government**
**Contractor bears some of the allowable costs**

## Partnering with NASA/KSC

**Alliance**
**Agreement with local, regional, and state governments to stimulate and accelerate NASA contributions**
**Responsibilities of each partner are defined with respect to the transfer of technology**
**Grant**
**Agreement to fund scientific research at universities and non-profit centers of learning**
**No substantial involvement between NASA and the recipient**
**These partnership approaches will follow subgroup activities to select and prioritize**

## 

KSC Spaceport Engineering & Technology Directorate (SE&T)

Ken Payne
SE&T Acting Director

Dave Bartine
KSC Chief Technologist

**KSC Spaceport Engineering & Technology Directorate (SE&T)**
**Ken Payne**
**SE&T Acting Director**
**Dave Bartine**
**KSC Chief Technologist**

## 

Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)

Greg Clements
ATDC Project Manager

**Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)**
**Greg Clements**
**ATDC Project Manager**

## 

Advanced Range Technology Overview

Rich Nelson
ARTWG KSC Co-Chair

**Advanced Range Technology Overview**
**Rich Nelson**
**ARTWG KSC Co-Chair**

## 

Perspectives on Spaceport Development:
States

Tim Huddleston
National Coalition of Spaceport States

**Perspectives on Spaceport Development:**
**States**
**Tim Huddleston**
**National Coalition of Spaceport States**

## 

Perspectives on Spaceport Development:
Industry
and Future Markets

Eric Stallmer
Space Transportation Association

**Perspectives on Spaceport Development:**
**Industry**
**and Future Markets**
**Eric Stallmer**
**Space Transportation Association**

## 

Perspectives on Spaceport Development:
Academia

John Wefel
National Council of Space Grant Directors

**Perspectives on Spaceport Development:**
**Academia**
**John Wefel**
**National Council of Space Grant Directors**

## 

Perspectives on Spaceport Development:
Commercial Spaceports

Ed Gormel
Spaceport Florida Authority

Larry Gooch
California Space Authority

**Perspectives on Spaceport Development:**
**Commercial Spaceports**
**Ed Gormel**
**Spaceport Florida Authority**
**Larry Gooch**
**California Space Authority**

## 

Licensing of Commercial Spaceports

Stewart Jackson
Federal Aviation Administration

**Licensing of Commercial Spaceports**
**Stewart Jackson**
**Federal Aviation Administration**

## 

Spaceports Today, 2020 and 2050

John Sheahan
George Mason University
Continuing Career Program

**Spaceports Today, 2020 and 2050**
**John Sheahan**
**George Mason University**
**Continuing Career Program**

## 

ASTWG Next Steps

Phil Weber
Randy Eastman

**ASTWG Next Steps**
**Phil Weber**
**Randy Eastman**

## Get organized
Keep momentum going
Continue to build relationships
Plan next ASTWG meeting based on feedback from Kick-Off Meeting

Your actions:
Fill out feedback forms and turn in (later ideas can be e-mailed)
Volunteer to lead/participate in sub-groups
Sub-Groups
Standing:  Technical focus areas, education/outreach, policy, commerce, web page, benchmarking, etc.
Temporary:  Charter development, others as needed
Begin activities immediately
Report results at next ASTWG (approx. 6 months from now)

**Keep momentum going**
**Continue to build relationships**
**Plan next ASTWG meeting based on feedback from Kick-Off Meeting**
**Your actions:**
**Fill out feedback forms and turn in (later ideas can be e-mailed)**
**Volunteer to lead/participate in sub-groups**
**Sub-Groups**
**Standing:  Technical focus areas, education/outreach, policy, commerce, web page, benchmarking, etc.**
**Temporary:  Charter development, others as needed**
**Begin activities immediately**
**Report results at next ASTWG (approx. 6 months from now)**

**Next Steps**

***“******Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”  Vince Lombardi***

## Phil Weber
	KSC Spaceport and Range Technology Manager
	Phone:  (321) 867-2057
	E-mail:  Philip.Weber-1@ksc.nasa.gov

Randy Eastman
	Chair, Advanced Spaceport Technology Working Group
	Phone:  (321) 867-8805
	E-mail: Carl.Eastman-1@ksc.nasa.gov

Rich Nelson
	Co-Chair, Advanced Range Technology Working Group
	Phone:  (321) 867-3332
	E-mail:  Richard.Nelson-2@ksc.nasa.gov

**	****KSC Spaceport and Range Technology Manager**
**	****Phone:  (321) 867-2057**
**	****E-mail:  Philip.Weber-1@ksc.nasa.gov**
**Randy Eastman**
**	****Chair, Advanced Spaceport Technology Working Group**
**	****Phone:  (321) 867-8805**
**	****E-mail: Carl.Eastman-1@ksc.nasa.gov**
**Rich Nelson**
**	****Co-Chair, Advanced Range Technology Working Group**
**	****Phone:  (321) 867-3332**
**	****E-mail:  Richard.Nelson-2@ksc.nasa.gov**

**ASTWG Contacts**

***“******Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.  But without it, we go nowhere.”***
***Carl Sagan***