ESP FEATURED IN GODDARD'S TECH TRANSFER

GREENBELT, MD -- GSFC's Tech Transfer interviewed members of the Exploration Systems Projects (ESP) team: Mike Weiss (Project Manager), Neal Barthelme (Deputy Project Manager), and Ron Leung (Senior Mission Systems Engineer & Independent Technical Authority) about ESP technologies and the critical value they can provide both within NASA and beyond.

GREENBELT, MD -- Airlines can not afford to fly with empty seats very often – and Space Shuttle orbiters can’t leave valuable payload capacity “on the ground.” Costing hundreds of millions of dollars per flight, NASA filled extra space in the shuttle’s cargo bay using the Shuttle Small Payloads Project (SSPP).