01 October 2021
FAA investigating Blue Origin safety procedures after open letter from ex-employees
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it is reviewing allegations about safety issues at Blue ... been lucky that nothing has happened so far”, the essay adds. The FAA has responded to the remarks made this week, and said it "takes every...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... education with local, national and international partners. Texas, and this year the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made Ellington Field the nation’s tenth commercial spaceport. In granting the Houston Airport System their spaceport...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
..., based on a report by Commercial Space Technologies, discusses the options. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), nine private US companies currently hold 26 active commercial licenses granted by the US Office of Commercial Space...
28 December 2015
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
...Chair and the local Flight Standards District Office in order to keep the approved programs current with FAA regulations and to maintain required documentation. Assignment Responsibilities: The instructional assignment may include, but is not limited...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
...from DoD leadership that they do not want to be the ‘FAA for Space’. Instead, a civil agency can best fulfill this ... utilise commercial weather data sources, increasing funding for FAA/AST and eliminating funding for the Asteroid Redirect Mission...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...Branson himself, will fall under the classification of ‘spaceflight participant’. That said, the amendment promulgated by the FAA did allow for a discretionary ‘Honorary Commercial Astronaut Wings’, thereby allowing Wally Funk, veteran of the Mercury...
