http://www.newspacejournal.com/2010/01/08/registration-deadline-approaching-for-suborbital-science-conference/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:07:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2010/01/08/registration-deadline-approaching-for-suborbital-science-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-430294 Training begins for suborbital scientist-astronauts « NewSpace Journal Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:37:14 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=1092#comment-430294 [...] Training begins for suborbital scientist-astronauts An initial group of a dozen prospective scientist-astronauts will begin a two-day training program today at the NASTAR Center just outside Philadelphia in preparation for future flights on commercial suborbital vehicles. The training will include both classroom instruction and “altitude chamber training, multi-axes centrifuge training for launch and reentry accelerations, and several distraction factor exercises”, all designed to prepare people for the experience of suborbital spaceflight. As noted here previously, there’s growing interest in using suborbital vehicles being developed to service the space tourism market for scientific applications as well, something that will be the focus of a conference next month in Colorado. [...] [...] Training begins for suborbital scientist-astronauts An initial group of a dozen prospective scientist-astronauts will begin a two-day training program today at the NASTAR Center just outside Philadelphia in preparation for future flights on commercial suborbital vehicles. The training will include both classroom instruction and “altitude chamber training, multi-axes centrifuge training for launch and reentry accelerations, and several distraction factor exercises”, all designed to prepare people for the experience of suborbital spaceflight. As noted here previously, there’s growing interest in using suborbital vehicles being developed to service the space tourism market for scientific applications as well, something that will be the focus of a conference next month in Colorado. [...]

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