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FAA Setting Up Commercial Spaceflight Center

Posted by samzenpus on from the to-the-moon-with-you dept.

coondoggie writes "The FAA this week took a step closer to setting up a central hub for the development of key commercial space transportation technologies such as space launch and traffic management applications and setting orbital safety standards. The hub, known as the Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, would have a $1 million yearly budget and tie together universities, industry players, and the government for cost-sharing research and development. The FAA expects the center to be up and running this year."

6 of 113 comments (clear)

  1. CECST by mmmmbeer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Won't that be pronounced "Sext"?

  2. We get the warhead and hold the world ransom for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    One million dollars! *Pinky to mouth*

  3. Well! by Un+pobre+guey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yep, gotta handle all that space traffic. Yessiree Bob! No more waiting in line, no more congestion in the TSA security line, no more risk of getting bumped off your spaceflight. Yeah, times have changed, what with all the commercial space flight going on.

  4. Re:1 miilion?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, the proper syntax is:

    apt-get install analogy

  5. Re:Obligatory toilet humor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Phew! Good thing you posted that as AC. The results on your karma could have been disastrous.

  6. Re:$1 Million? Wha? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They're just being efficient. One million dollars pays for exactly one CEO with nothing left over, but we all know that a CEO is a superhuman worker who can do hundreds of times what a normal worker can do, why else would they be paid so much? So this is really a cheap way of having an office staffed with hundreds without the hundreds.