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COTS/CRS: KSC Evolving Host Initiatives with Commercial Space Partners

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Yohpe, Megan
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	IntroductionNASA's Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO) leads the agency'scommercial efforts to stimulate United States private companies as the shuttle program comes toa close. Through the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, twocompanies, SpaceX and Orbital, were selected to demonstrate their ability to perform flights tothe International Space Station. The Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) Project leverages offthe COTS experience, and awarded these two private companies contracts to resupply theInternational Space Station after shuttle fly out.As a 2010 summer intern, I supported the COTS/CRS team in their team meetings,attended and contributed to project discussions and planning, and assisted in developing visualrepresentations for the variety of processes and organizational endeavors required for theprogram to run smoothly. One aspect of the COTS/CRS program gives the involved privatecompanies the opportunity to request available services from Kennedy Space Center (KSC); oneof my projects included assisting in the development of a related Task Order Request (TOR)process. In addition, an integral part of the project was to maintain and enhance the teamdatabase for processing the variety of TORS. My experience in the project gave me great insightinto the growing field of commercial space activities.The development of the TOR process involved coordinating representatives from avariety of backgrounds at KSC. A clear and concise visual representation of the TOR process inthe form of a flow chart was necessary to successfully implement a task order request from oneof NASA's commercial partners. The goals of the process charts were to communicate theteam's ideas and foster a common thought process while at the same time allow the process togrow and evolve. It was critical that the requests from the private companies were addressed_r
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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