The Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority panel will begin to review applications for the deputy director position next month in northern Virginia from among the several applicants. The selection, expected before year end, will mark growth in the utlilization of the FAA-licensed commercial Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia with numerous launches now building in the manifest.
Among the planned orbital launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island include several commercial cargo resupply flights to the International Space Station and a NASA civil lunar orbiter mission. New launches will begin March 31, 2011 on Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Science Corporation-made boosters.
While there was discussion of the NASA Commercial Crew and Cargo Program among the authority members and the commercial and civil space policy decisions to be made in Washington, the authority did not take a formal position. NASA is expected to sign initial agreements next month for start-up of commercial crew launch development.
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