LIVE: CCiCAP Commercial Crew Awards Announcements - August 3, 2012

[BrightLight]

Gerst: Ed Mango
 SpaceX "We like the way they think"

Corrected

[Chris Bergin]

Talks about NASA's Commercial Crew teams as pit crews, who work with the companies.

"Not to tell the partner what to do".

[BrightLight]

Ed Mango
telecon at 10;45 eastern

[BrightLight]

Ed mango
"diversity of spacecraft,
redundancy in competition"

[Chris Bergin]

All the tough questions are getting non responses "ask in the teleconference".

[BrightLight]

Bolden:
did not know who submitted proposals

[QuantumG]

All the tough questions are getting non responses "ask in the teleconference".

Any idea if we'll be able to listen to that on NASA audio?

[BrightLight]

SNC will use some KSC facilities,

[Chris Bergin]

Awww, very nervous reporter asking about SNC.

Expect them to use KSC facilities (SLF - yes, but hopefully an OPF - my words).

[Rocket Science]

More jobs questions...

[BrightLight]

Tremendous changes at KSC in last year

[ugordan]

Any idea if we'll be able to listen to that on NASA audio?

Here?
http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html

[Chris Bergin]

All the tough questions are getting non responses "ask in the teleconference".

Any idea if we'll be able to listen to that on NASA audio?

Yes sir!


Audio of the 10:45 a.m. teleconference will be streamed live at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

[BrightLight]

Commercial crew and SLS are not mutually excluusive

[BrightLight]

end

[Chris Bergin]

Oh and that's over fast. 20 minutes, hardly any answers. Some fluff about SLS and that was about it.

[Rocket Science]

Ed: Half award explanation... Basically what each could do or need in 21 months if I got it right...

[Prober]

Edward J. Mango
BIO

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/biographies/mango.html

[ugordan]

I don't understand what the purpose of this particular press conference was when all the meaty stuff will be talked about at the 10:45 telecon.

[Rocket Science]

Lots of jobs talk... Its an election year and Florida is important (me).