Jun 5 2006
From The Space Library
NASA awarded Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne a contract in the amount of US$50 million to initiate conceptual design, development, testing, and evaluation of the J-2X engine. The engine would power the Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV) upper stage and the Earth-departure stage of the Cargo Launch Vehicle (CaLV). The contract, which would run through 30 November 2006, would support two scheduled reviews of associated vehicles—a Systems Requirements Review in September 2006, and a Systems Design Review in October 2006.
NASA, “NASA Announces Engine Development Contract,” contract release C06-032, 5 June 2006, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/jun/HQ_06032_J2X_engine_selection.html (accessed 22 February 2010).
The National Academies’ National Research Council (NRC) Steering Committee for the Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics issued a report recommending a long-term strategy for the federal government’s involvement in civil aeronautics, with particular emphasis on NASA’s future research priorities. NASA had sponsored the report. According to the committee, the next 28 years of U.S. civil aeronautics research and technology should provide a foundation for achieving six strategic objectives, including improved safety and reliability and increased capacity, efficiency and performance. The report provided a list of 51 high-priority aeronautics research and technology challenges for NASA. To achieve the goals outlined in the report, the committee recommended that NASA cooperate more with public and private organizations, to share facilities and tools for key projects, and with other federal agencies that support aeronautics research, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
National Academies Office of News and Public Information, “U.S. Should Strengthen Foundation for Future of Air Transportation,” press release, 5 June 2006, http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11664 (accessed 15 September 2010); see also National Research Council, Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006), http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11664 (accessed 16 September 2010).
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