A few years ago, I had the good fortune to be accepted as a consultant on Kelly Space and Technology’s Space Transportation Architecture Study team for NASA. Challenger was long behind us, and Columbia and SpaceShipOne were yet to happen. My assignment was to develop recommendations as to how any new NASA space vehicle development could be used to facilitate a commercial space industry, specifically from the standpoint of crew and passenger safety and system reliability, which, we must admit, are crucial to both.
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