Tom Shelley of Space Adventures Speaks at the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference
February 11 2010
Today, Tom Shelley, Vice President of Marketing for Space Adventures, Ltd., the only company that provides human space missions to the world marketplace, spoke on a panel entitled “Overview of the Human Spaceflight Training Market” at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia.
Now in its 13th year, the annual conference provides a forum for policy makers and technical experts to share their insights and discuss developments in commercial space transportation and other related industries.
Space Adventures, the company that organized the flights for the world's first private space explorers, is headquartered in Vienna, Va. with an office in Moscow. It offers a variety of programs such as the availability today for spaceflight missions to the International Space Station and around the moon, Zero-Gravity flights, cosmonaut training, spaceflight qualification programs and reservations on future suborbital spacecrafts. The company's advisory board includes Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, Shuttle astronauts Sam Durrance, Tom Jones, Byron Lichtenberg, Norm Thagard, Kathy Thornton, Pierre Thuot, Charles Walker, Skylab/Shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev.
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