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Commercial Spaceflight Federation to Make Major Announcement on Wednesday, April 13
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the industry association of leading businesses and organizations working to make commercial human spaceflight a reality, will be making a major announcement on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, the day after the 50th anniversary celebration of the world’s first human spaceflight in 1961. Following the announcement, a press availability will be held at 1:30 pm Mountain Time at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Representatives of the media onsite in Colorado Springs are invited join us at Symposium Media Center Press Room #1, on the 2nd floor of the Exhibit Center.
Participants in the press availability will include:
- Mark Sirangelo, Chairman of Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems and Chairman Emeritus of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation
- George Whitesides, President and CEO, Virgin Galactic
- Robert Bigelow, Founder and President, Bigelow Aerospace
- Bretton Alexander, President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation
- Gwynne Shotwell, President of SpaceX
- A TBD senior executive of the United Launch Alliance
- Patti Grace Smith, former Associate Administrator of FAA/AST
The announcement is one of importance to the space industry as a whole, not just to one particular company or combination of companies.
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation, the industry association of leading businesses and organizations working to make commercial human spaceflight a reality, will be making a major announcement on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, the day after the 50th anniversary celebration of the world’s first human spaceflight in 1961. Following the announcement, a press availability will be held at 1:30 pm Mountain Time at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Representatives of the media onsite in Colorado Springs are invited join us at Symposium Media Center Press Room #1, on the 2nd floor of the Exhibit Center.
Participants in the press availability will include:
- Mark Sirangelo, Chairman of Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems and Chairman Emeritus of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation
- George Whitesides, President and CEO, Virgin Galactic
- Robert Bigelow, Founder and President, Bigelow Aerospace
- Bretton Alexander, President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation
- Gwynne Shotwell, President of SpaceX
- A TBD senior executive of the United Launch Alliance
- Patti Grace Smith, former Associate Administrator of FAA/AST
The announcement is one of importance to the space industry as a whole, not just to one particular company or combination of companies.