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Space Act Agreements (abbreviated SAA) are a type of legal agreement specified in the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (and subsequent congressional authorizations) that uniquely empowers the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to work with any entity that enables fulfillment of the Administration's mandate.
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub. L. 85–568) is the United States federal statute that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Act, which followed close on the heels of the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, was drafted by the United States House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space ...
On 18 August 2006, NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD) announced that SpaceX and Rocketplane Kistler won Phase I of the COTS program. [14] NASA planned to engage winners in funded Space Act agreements through 2010. [15] On 8 November 2006 RpK and ATK announced that ATK would become the lead contractor for the K-1. [16]
In September 2011, NASA released a draft request for proposals (RFP). [47] The final RFP was released on February 7, 2012, with proposals due on March 23, 2012. [48] [49] The funded Space Act Agreements were awarded on August 3, 2012, and amended on August 15, 2013. [50] [51] The selected proposals were announced August 3, 2012:
In this file photo, Carolyn Ringer Lepre, Salisbury University president, left, and Makenzie Lystrup, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center director, sign the SU-NASA Space Act Agreement Thursday ...
[3] [4] Following the NASA Authorization Act of 2005, the Constellation program was established, [5] which envisioned a revised Crew Exploration Vehicle named Orion conducting crew rotation flights to the International Space Station (ISS) in addition to its lunar exploration goals.
International legal scholars also credit the agreement with helping influence space exploration in the direction of uniform standards of cooperation and peaceful use. [96] The Accords have also been lauded for being the first time several nations have agreed to recognize the presence of human cultural heritage in outer space and the need to ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is responsible for developing the lunar lander — called Starship — that will ferry astronauts to the surface of the moon for the first time since the Apollo program.