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Mario BusaccaKSC Spaceport Planning Office
March 2014
Transforming to a Multi User Spaceport
George Mueller, NASA’s head of manned space flight, briefing President Kennedy at Complex 37. Nov 16, 1963
Where We Started
KSC’s Mission ♦ NASA Space Launch System (SLS)
5 to 7 flights over the next 20 years
♦ Commercial Crew Program One to two Commercial Providers to ISS
♦ Extended ISS Mission to 2024
♦ Support commercial space industry Per NASA 2010 Authorization Act Leasing of assets
♦ Launch Services Program Payloads to earth orbit and beyond
Artist rendering: SLS launching from KSC’s LC-39B
KSC’s Master Plan
♦ KSC Master Plans has been in work since 2010
♦ The first product was the Future Development Concept (FDC)♦ KSC was first Center to develop an FDC and get approval♦ Provides the basis for the Plan you will see today
♦ This KSC Master Plan provides the tools and analyses to support future decisions regarding development and asset utilization Planning Background Existing Conditions Future Development
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Components of the Master Plan
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What Planners Want To Know
Where We Are Today
Where We Are Going
Provided in a Web Based format for efficiency and ease of use and updates
KSC Master Plan Core Strategies
Improve operational, fiscal and environmental sustainability
Ensure that the Space Launch System (SLS), Orion, Commercial Crew Program (CCP), International Space Station (ISS), and Launch Services Provider (LSP) activities are fully operational and have fully capable facilities, assets, and resources.
Support NASA Mission and
Program
Divest without Diminishing
Divesting of assets without eliminating capability to serve both critical government missions and programs while encouraging the growth of commercial space transportation market needs.
Evolution to a Multi-User Spaceport
Move from a monolithic NASA program field installation to a Multi-User Spaceport of Federal property
Move from a monolithic NASA program field installation to a Multi-User Spaceport of Federal property
Leaner and Greener
Improve operational, fiscal and environmental sustainability.
KSC Future Land Use Plan
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♦ Not a traditional Master Plan Usually a Capital
Improvement Plan
♦ Provides for functional areas and zones of activity Government only Industrial Commercial
Facility Divestments
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SLF OPF 3 MPPF LC 39B Hangar N
PCC OPF 1&2 BOB LC 39A Hangar AF
PRF MLP MILA VAB-LCC Recovery Ships
HMF CT ARF-BFF O&C SSPF
KSC Transformation via Assets Partnering
♦ Asset partnership agreements in place: Focus has been to provide major assets to
industry:• Space Florida at OPF3• Craig Technologies at NSLD• United Paradyne at HMF• PaR Systems at Hangar N
♦ Partnerships in Negotiation Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) Launch Complex 39A
♦ Current focus for future is
on other assets: Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) Mobile Launcher Platforms (MLP’s) Minor Facilities Land
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Future Spaceport Strategies
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What will KSC’s Spaceport look like?Shuttle
Era2011-Today
2018 2030
Scope of assets offered to non-NASA
Only program assets with excess
Complete existing facilities
Available land within excess capacity and rules
Capabilities provided by NASA
Institutional (city)
Launch Operations
R&D and Technical Services
Spaceport Integration
Capabilities provided by non-NASA
Launch
Manufacturing
R&D and Technical Services
How will capabilities be provided?
NASA contracts only
Non-NASA
NASA contracts and non-NASA
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past, or the present, are certain to miss the future.
-John F Kennedy KSC’S KSC’S FUTURE…FUTURE…