# Presentation: 089019

## Spaceport Development

**COMSTAC**
**Launch Operations Support**
**Working Group **
**October 24, 2006**
**Jim Ball**
**Spaceport Development Manager**
**NASA Kennedy Space Center**

**Spaceport Development**
**at Kennedy Space Center**

## Spaceport Development

**at Kennedy Space Center**
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-    *Enabling commercial spaceflight and specialized*
*	**aviation uses of the Shuttle Landing Facility*
*    **Developing Exploration Park – a technology and*
*commerce park facilitating commercial operations*
*    **Supporting Commercial Orbital Transportation Services*
*    **Evolving a more capable, mixed use spaceport *
*supporting NASA’s mission and commercial space*
*industry operations*

## SLF Expanded Access Pilot Program – FY 2006

**Demonstrating Commercial Use**

## Enabling Commercial Spaceflight and

**Specialized Aviation – Activities for FY 2007**

## Environmental Assessment of Commercial Spaceflight, Special Purpose Aviation, 

**and other Uses, 2008-2018**

## Preliminary site options for assessing expanded support infrastructure

**Preliminary site options for assessing expanded support infrastructure**

## SLF Environmental Assessment

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-    NASA is seeking industry information by December 1 	to support understanding of flight systems and operating 	concepts
*    *KSC will tier off FAA Programmatic EIS for horizontal
- launch and re-entry systems
*    *Alternatives will assume common portfolio of flight uses,
- differ by support infrastructure and flight rates
*    *Assessment to be completed by mid 2007

## Other Enabling Activities

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-    Interagency agreement for commercial user support with 	Titusville-Cocoa Airport Authority
*    *Restructure of how NASA will obtain airfield services 	support in 2008 and beyond
*    *Working with new Space Florida organization and others 	to evaluate how to fund improvements
*    *Developing approaches to user pricing and support
- arrangements

## EXPLORATION

- PARK **at Kennedy Space Center**
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## PARK at Kennedy Space Center

- PARK **at Kennedy Space Center**
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*A 320-acre technology and commerce park to:*
-  Enable and grow private
-   sector participation in space
-   exploration
-  Support commercial space
-    transportation
-  Promote commercial
-   development of technology
-   for use in space and on
-   earth

## What Exploration Park Offers

**Commercial Space Industry**
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-    Commercially-developed and operated sites/facilities
- close to NASA, Air Force, and industry launch complexes
*    *Convenient links to sea, air, land, and space
-     Sites to own or lease manufacturing, assembly,
- processing, or administrative/support service facilities
*    *Opportunities for access to spaceport facilities, technical
- capabilities, skilled workforce, & applied technologies
*    *24/7 access to a site abutting spaceport’s controlled
- access area with anticipated inclusion in FTZ 136

## Exploration Park

- <date/time>

- City of Titusville

- Space Coast Regional Airport

- KSC Industrial
- Area

- Cape Canaveral
- Air Force Station

- Port Canaveral

- City of Cape
- Canaveral

**KSC and Surrounding Environment**

- KSC Shuttle
- Runway

**Indian River**
**Lagoon**

**Atlantic Ocean**

- North
- Merritt
- Island

## Status of Exploration Park Project

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-    RFP for private sector Master Developer was issued
- Sept. 1, initial responses have been received
*    *NASA solicitation for expressions of tenant interest
- issued Sept. 27, responses requested by Nov. 9
-     NASA anticipates selecting Master Developer by end of
- 	Feb. 2007 and availability of sites and space as
- 	early as mid 2009

## A More Capable, Mixed Use Spaceport

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-    Additional KSC Spaceport Development initiatives seek
- 	to expand the KSC user base to achieve a more
- 	capable and efficient spaceport supporting mixed use by
- 	government and industry
- 	- More efficient support services
- 	- Identification of available underutilized assets and
- 	  development of market-based pricing structure
- 	- Evaluation of opportunities for on-site production of
- 	  commodities
- 	- Evaluation of opportunities for increased reliance on
- 	  commercially available services