Flight Safety Information April 23, 2020 - No. 082 In This Issue Incident: Canada A333 at Vancouver on Apr 5th 2020, could not retract landing gear Incident: Canadian North B732 at Yellowknife on Apr 21st 2020, smoke in cockpit MedAire Partnering With Airlines on New Pre-Flight COVID-19 Screening EASA Instructs A350 Operators To Install Cockpit Coffee Protection FAA cuts back hours at more than 100 air traffic control towers Boeing revamps commercial aircraft management structure Delta sees few signs travelers are itching to fly even as coronavirus restrictions ease The CEO of Ryanair, one of the world's biggest airlines, says it won't fly if middle seats have to stay empty for 'idiotic' social distancing rules Boeing is sued for $336 million over canceled 737 MAX order NASA sets date for first SpaceX astronaut flight Online Fire & Explosion Investigation from SCSI Greetings from the ISASI 2020 Planning Committee Aviation remote learning opportunities by Lufthansa Group specialist company Aircraft Accident Investigation Series in Slovenia AvMaSSI - HazCom & Infectious Disease Control Program USC Aviation Safety & Security Program...Has Moved Online Incident: Canada A333 at Vancouver on Apr 5th 2020, could not retract landing gear An Air Canada Airbus A330-300, registration C-GFAJ performing flight AC-308 from Vancouver,BC to Montreal,QC (Canada) with 41 passengers and 10 crew, was climbing out of Vancouver's runway 26L when the crew could not retract the landing gear. A second attempt also failed prompting the crew to consult with maintenance and return to Vancouver for a safe landing on runway 26R about 35 minutes after departure. The Canadian TSB reported maintenance found a spring was missing from inboard side of the left hand main gear uplock assembly. The uplock assembly was replaced and the landing gear tested serviceable. The aircraft returned to service on Apr 8th 2020. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA308/history/20200405/2015Z/CYVR/CYUL http://avherald.com/h?article=4d646527&opt=0 Back to Top Incident: Canadian North B732 at Yellowknife on Apr 21st 2020, smoke in cockpit A Canadian North Boeing 737-200, registration C-GOPW performing flight 5T-228 from Yellowknife,NT to Kuglutuk,NT (Canada) with 4 passengers and 4 crew, was climbing out of Yellowknife's runway 34 when the crew smelled and subsequently observed smoke on the flight deck and suspected, the smoke was related to the captain's side window heat plug. The crew stopped the climb at about 14,000 feet MSL, worked the related checklists, unpowered the side window's heating and the smoke dissipated. The aircraft returned to Yellowknife for a safe landing on runway 16 about 40 minutes after departure. The Canadian TSB reported maintenance identified a faulty window heater. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/MPE228/history/20200421/1650Z/CYZF/CYCO http://avherald.com/h?article=4d6463dd&opt=0 MedAire Partnering With Airlines on New Pre-Flight COVID-19 Screening MedAire, the world's leading provider of in-flight medical advice and assistance to commercial airlines -announced the launch of new pre-flight COVID-19 passenger screening services to enhance safety measures for air travel. MedAire is the first and foremost experienced provider of medical advisory services to more than 150 airlines worldwide. For more than 35 years, MedAire has helped airlines manage passenger medical issues - both in the air and at the gate. The company is expanding their existing solutions to now include COVID-19 health screening. This new service complements a well-proven medical advisory process the company already has in place with airlines to help manage passenger medical issues; including pre-flight fitness to fly assessments, ground based medical assistance for in-flight medical issues and cabin crew medical training. The new screening service is an additional step to help mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 via air travel and help restore confidence in flying, for air travel today and in the future. The screening is conducted by on-site medical professionals prior to check-in at the origin city, and consists of a questionnaire for contact history, and symptom screening including temperature. This screening approach is considered the industry best practice today, and will evolve as additional options to screen, test or vaccinate become available. MedAire is working with airline partners in a phased approach to develop solutions and, to date, the company has implemented screening programmes in locations including London, Lima, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. While passenger screening services are not universally required today, some airlines are beginning to implement such programmes. This practice is evolving as a precautionary measure to protect passenger safety, as much as to screen travellers prior to entry at their destination, as a requirement of the receiving country. "Screening is what the industry will need to do now to make people feel safe to travel again until a vaccine is available," said Dr. Paulo Alves, Global Medical Director Aviation Health at MedAire. "The situation is rapidly evolving, and the screening criteria may change as we learn more about the virus and when new testing options become available that can help quickly determine who is safe to travel. We are working closely with the governmental health agencies of individual countries and are aligned with guidelines from multiple agencies including the WHO, CDC, IATA and the FAA, as well as our airline partners, to help develop and implement best practice solutions with the goal to ensure the safety of passengers and crew when flying." "MedAire has the unique aviation medical expertise, as well as longstanding industry partnerships that position us well to play a significant role in the fight against COVID-19 and other emerging pandemic threats, with the goal to help people safely return to travel," said Bill Dolny, CEO of MedAire. "Health screening, like security screening post 9-11, is likely to become the standard for air travel. MedAire is ready to support the air travel industry with solutions as their needs evolve." MedAire, an International SOS company, has a global footprint and access to a worldwide network of medical providers & resources, enabling access to trained medical staff for on-location screening that complements their existing well-proven solutions. The screening process has been developed in line with IATA best practices, can easily adapt to an airline's protocols, and considers evolving travel restrictions at specific origin and destination locations. View source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200423005207/en/ http://www.oleantimesherald.com/business/medaire-partnering-with-airlines-on-new-pre-flight-covid-19-screening/article_9c4078f5-0a81-5f33-bb92-3a478f3a8f35.html Back to Top EASA Instructs A350 Operators To Install Cockpit Coffee Protection Airbus has developed a cover for key controls in the A350 cockpit, to protect them from liquid spillage. This important update comes after two incidents of engine shutdown in the past year, and EASA has instructed all A350 operators to install the new covers within 28 days. There have been two incidents of engine shutdown on A350 aircraft in 2019 and early 2020. Both of these have been attributed to liquid spills around the controls on the center pedestal of the cockpit. Airbus has been working to address this and has now released a cover to protect these controls from such spillages. According to reporting by FlightGlobal, the removable covers are designed to fit over the master levels, thumbwheels, and rotary knobs. The covers should be left fitted during the cruise, but removed for take-off and landing. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has directed all operators of the A350 to fit these covers within 28 days (in a directive issued to airlines and reported by FlightGlobal). What happened with previous spillages? The incidents that led to this involved a Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to Seoul on 21 January 2020, and an Asiana flight from Seoul to Singapore on 9 November 2019 (the airline, in this case, is not confirmed but likely to be Asiana, as Simple Flying previously reported). On both flights, a drink was spilled by the crew in the area of the central controls. In both cases the result was an engine shutdown, and diversion following failed attempts to restart the failed engine. The diversions came quickly - just 15 minutes after the spillage for Delta and within one hour for Asiana. The engine shutdowns occurred, according to EASA, due to abnormal operation of the components in the area of the spill. The electronic engine control ordered the high-pressure shut-off valve to close after inconsistent data was received. Improving regulations, but may change again The requirement to install covers is an update to the measures already put in place following these two incidents. On 4 February 2020, Airbus published an update to the A350 flight manual, defining a 'liquid-free zone' in the cockpit. It also specified procedures to be followed in the event of a spill. EASA instructed all operators to comply with this. At the time, this was noted that this was a temporary revision and that further instruction could follow. With these new instructions, airlines will need to get used to the new way of operating. And EASA notes again this time that further regulations may follow. Of course, whenever there are liquids and electronic components close together, there is going to be a risk (as any laptop owner knows). To be completely safe, liquids would need to be banned from the cockpit. This is not a very practical solution, and aircrew will be pleased Airbus is promptly coming up with workable alternatives. https://simpleflying.com/a350-cockpit-coffee-protection/ Back to Top FAA cuts back hours at more than 100 air traffic control towers (Meredith) -- The Federal Aviation Administration is cutting back on hours at more than 100 air traffic control towers. The move comes as fewer air traffic controllers are needed to watch the mostly empty skies over smaller airports. The agency did not specify which towers would see reductions. It said the changes would reduce hours at non-peak times and there will be no "operational effects" on the airports. Airlines have stripped thousands of daily flights from their schedules and asked the FAA to waive requirements to make daily or weekly flights into some smaller airports. https://www.foxcarolina.com/faa-cuts-back-hours-at-more-than-100-air-traffic-control-towers/article_3ee8b474-d7fd-58ca-b495-4d7e910e7c47.html Back to Top Boeing revamps commercial aircraft management structure Boeing is overhauling the management structure of its commercial aircraft division, creating a new supply chain oversight role and reviving a position with responsibility for all Boeing's commercial aircraft programmes. Stanley Deal, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, announced the changes in a 22 April message to employees. Deal says the structuring will "reshape our organisation to reflect the new realities of our business moving forward". The restructuring comes one day after Boeing announced major changes to its broader corporate management structure. The changes will see Mark Jenks transition from vice-president of the 737 programme to the position of vice-president of airplane programmes, a role that previously existed and has been vacant since 2016, Boeing says. Jenks will now oversee all commercial aircraft programmes, and leaders of the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787 programmes will report to him. His responsibilities will include ensuring "consistency, best practices and learnings are applied across all of our airplane programmes", Deal says. ¬Boeing vice-president of manufacturing, safety and quality Walt Odisho will succeed Jenks as the 737 programme's vice-president and general manager and head of the Renton production site. Gary McCulley, currently 737 manufacturing operations leader, will step into the role of commercial aircraft vice-president of manufacturing and safety. Elizabeth Lund, vice-president and general manager of commercial aircraft supply chain, will head an effort to integrate Boeing's internal supply chain with its external supply chain. The internal chain provides components made in-house, while the external chain is composed of some 3,000 suppliers, says Deal's letter. Boeing vice-president of fabrication Kim Pastega will now report to Lund, who will report to Deal. Lund and Pastega will work to ensure supply chain "safety, quality, on-time delivery and cost competitiveness". Additionally, Mike Fleming, a vice-president in charge of the 737 Max return-to-service and the company's aviation safety efforts, will also now lead Boeing's customer support unit, based in Seal Beach, California. That change will align Boeing's 737 return-to-service work with its customer support efforts, Deal says. The changes also include the naming of Kent Fisher, who has headed Boeing corporate development, as chief financial officer of the commercial aircraft business. That position has been held by Kevin Schemm, who is moving to the role of senior vice-president of Boeing enterprise finance. https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/boeing-revamps-commercial-aircraft-management-structure/138027.article Back to Top Delta sees few signs travelers are itching to fly even as coronavirus restrictions ease With some states starting to ease coronavirus restrictions, a big question in the decimated airline industry is whether the moves will spur travelers to start buying plane tickets again. So far, the answer appears to be no, at least according to Delta Air Lines, whose home state of Georgia is among the first to take steps to reopen its economy. "We're bumping along the bottom here,'' Delta President Glen Hauenstein said in response to a question about travel demand on the airline's quarterly earnings conference call Wednesday. Bookings remain down and the airline's passenger counts are off by 95%, he said. The airline reported a first-quarter loss, its first in five years, because of the pandemic and said revenue in the current quarter will be down 90% as the first full financial impact of the pandemic hits. The only people still flying are those who have to, the carrier said. Delta, one of the largest airlines in the world, was set to carry just 30,000 passengers Wednesday, compared with 550,000 a year ago. It has parked more than 650 planes. Hauenstein and Delta CEO Ed Bastian said there are still government travel restrictions and broad stay-at-home orders across the country, including one in Atlanta, where Delta is based. "It's hard to envision when you can't leave your house, how you will go to travel at this point,'' Hauenstein said. When will passengers return and what will it take? Bastian forecasts a long recovery for the airline industry. "We believe that it could be up to three years before we see a sustainable recovery,'' he said. Delta and others are reworking their business plans to shrink operations for the foreseeable future to match sunken demand. Bastian said the key for a travel rebound will be passenger confidence that it's safe to travel through the airport and board a plane - places typically packed with people. Planning for life after coronavirus: When will we know it's safe to travel again? "Safety will no longer be limited to flight safety but personal safety as well,'' he said. Delta and other airlines have intensified aircraft cleaning, using electrostatic sprayers and a host of other measures. They have introduced new boarding procedures and are blocking middle seats to promote social distancing. "We've doubled down - in fact, tripled down - on sanitation and hygiene (and) cleanliness,'' Bastian said in an interview on CNBC Wednesday. JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes on Tuesday told CNBC that broader coronavirus testing is key to reassuring travelers "so people know (if they're infected) before they fly.'' Another key factor to any travel rebound: passengers' wallets. The pandemic has temporarily shuttered businesses across the country and unemployment has jumped, decimating business and vacation travel. "The truth is our recovery will be dictated by our customers feeling safe, both physically and financially," Bastian said. Bastian conceded some business travel won't return as companies rely more on Zoom meetings and other remote work they've turned to during the pandemic. "I think that there will be be some behavioral patterns that will change, no question about it,'' he said on CNBC. But he added: "I don't think that we're turning into a telecommuting workforce. ... Business travel is going to come back. People need to be face-to-face doing business together when it's safe, when that opportunity arises.'' Similarly, vacation travelers will eventually get the travel bug back. "People are going to want to get out of their homes and go on those experiences, whether it's for leisure or to go visit relatives and people they haven't seen in some time,'' Bastian said. How might flying look different post-pandemic? Traveling will definitely look different when passengers head to airport again, Bastian and other airline executives say. "You think about everything that came out of 9/11,'' he said, ticking off the establishment of the TSA and other flight safety measures such as banning anyone without a ticket from going past the security checkpoints. Bastian says he can envision a couple of lasting post-pandemic changes: • Immunity passports: "Could there be a new public health agency that requires a new passport to travel?'' Bastian asked. • Permanent changes in in-flight social distancing: These include new seating plans and fewer passengers per flight. JetBlue CEO Hayes said some of the temporary measures airlines are taking today might become permanent policies. This week, the airline began asking travelers to wear masks when they fly. "Just as with 9/11," Hayes said, "I definitely think we're going to see some things here change for good." https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2020/04/22/coronavirus-air-travel-delta-ceo-says-recovery-could-take-three-years/3002301001/ Back to Top The CEO of Ryanair, one of the world's biggest airlines, says it won't fly if middle seats have to stay empty for 'idiotic' social distancing rules Ryanair's CEO said the airline will not fly if it is forced to keep middle seats empty to maintain social distancing to stop the coronavirus spread. Michael O'Leary told the Financial Times that the idea would be "entirely ineffective," making it impossible for the airline to make money while also not keeping passengers far enough apart anyway. "We can't make money on 66% load factors," he said, adding: "The middle seat doesn't deliver any social distancing, so it's kind of an idiotic idea that doesn't achieve anything anyway." Some airlines have said they will keep empty seats between passengers, and the EU said social distancing rules will need to be in place. Ryanair is an Irish airline. Ryanair, like most other airlines, has had to ground most of its flights, but O'Leary said it expects most flights to resume this year if a middle seat rule is not put in place. The CEO of Ryanair, one of the world's largest airlines, said his planes won't fly if the airline has to keep the middle seat empty to comply with "idiotic" social distancing rules due to the coronavirus. Michael O'Leary told the Financial Times that the proposal would be "entirely ineffective" - even as experts proposed it and some airlines have agreed to it as a way to keep social distancing in place as countries start to reopen and more flights resume. O'Leary said that the Irish airline's plans to start flying more would be ruined by "some entirely ineffective social distancing measures like having middle seats empty because if middle seats are empty we're not returning to flying at all." He said that the airline had told the Irish government that if it tried to impose such a rule then "either the government pays for the middle seat or we won't fly." O'Leary also said that the airline could not make a profit by having so few people on planes, and that simply not having anyone sitting in a middle seat would not leave people far enough apart to create effective social distancing anyway. "We can't make money on 66% load factors. Even if you do that, the middle seat doesn't deliver any social distancing, so it's kind of an idiotic idea that doesn't achieve anything anyway," he said. The low-cost airline, which flies primarily in Europe, is the world's largest airline by the number of routes, and was in 2019 it ranked as the world's fifth-biggest airline by the number of seats available to passengers. 'If social distancing is imposed, cheap travel is over' The idea that planes should fly without a middle seat passenger has been recommended by analysts, and the EU's Transport Commissioner, Adina Valean, said some social distancing rules will need to be in place in airports and planes, though she did not specify whether there would be rules about middle seats. Long-haul airline Emirates said this week that it will keep empty seats between individuals and groups on flights, while US airline Delta said it will leave middle seats empty to "help customers and employees practice social distancing." Alexandre de Juniac, the head of International Air Transport Association (IATA) - the airline industry's global trade body - told Reuters that airlines are likely going to have to keep the middle seat empty on flights from now on. But he has also warned that social distancing measures could particularly harm low-cost airlines, as they would be forced to increase ticket prices. "So it means that if social distancing is imposed, cheap travel is over," he said. It is not yet clear how effective removing the middle passenger would be for social distancing. The BBC reported that, on an average plane, you would need to be more than four seats apart from other people in order to be the recommended two meters or six feet away from each other. Health experts have been supportive of removing the middle seat in the short term, even as they acknowledged that it may not be economically sustainable in the long term, the BBC added. Like the rest of the industry, Ryanair's flights have been decimated by the virus. As of March, Ryanair was operating fewer than 20 flights a day - less than 1% of their usual daily average of 2,500. O'Leary said the airline expects to run around 40% of its flights in July if air travel is resumed by then, and said that around 50% to 60% of the seats would be filled. He said he expects to run around 80% of its flights by September, but said that these plans would be ruined if the airline couldn't fill the middle seat. The pandemic has already forced some airlines to shut, is expected to cost airlines hundreds of billions of dollars, and could cause low-cost fares to disappear. But O'Leary is positive about his own airline's future, expecting normal traffic to return by summer 2021 and for Ryanair to be fueled by rivals collapsing. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ceo-ryanair-one-worlds-biggest-101439661.html Back to Top Boeing is sued for $336 million over canceled 737 MAX order (Reuters) - Boeing Co was sued for $336 million on Wednesday by a Kuwaiti leasing company that accused it of wrongly refusing to return advance payments on a now-canceled order for 40 of its troubled 737 MAX planes. In a complaint filed in Chicago federal court, ALAFCO Aviation Lease and Finance Co accused Boeing of breach of contract for keeping the payments despite being unable to deliver the planes or provide a revised delivery schedule. ALAFCO said it canceled its order on March 6 after Boeing failed to deliver nine aircraft on time. It said Boeing has resisted its claim that the problems amounted to a "non-excusable delay" that would justify repayment. Boeing did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Chicago-based company suspended 737 MAX deliveries in March 2019, when the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the aircraft following the deaths of 346 people in crashes of two 737 MAX planes operated by Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines. Boeing is now also struggling with the coronavirus pandemic, which forced it to cut production because of falling demand, airline customers' own cash struggles, and the logistical hurdles of delivering aircraft. ALAFCO buys large commercial aircraft and leases them to airlines. Its largest owners include the Kuwait Finance House , Gulf Investment Corp and Kuwait Airways Corp, according to its website. Boeing shares closed down $1.36 at $134.97 on Wednesday. They have lost more than two-thirds of their value since early March 2019, just before the 737 MAX grounding. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/boeing-sued-336-million-over-222558307.html Back to Top NASA sets date for first SpaceX astronaut flight Nine years after the last space shuttle flight, NASA plans to launch two U.S. astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule May 27 for a trip to the International Space Station, the agency announced Friday. The historic test flight will herald the end of America's sole reliance on Russia for basic space transportation. Without mentioning coronavirus safety protocols and the shutdown of multiple NASA field centers, agency Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a tweet that the agency aims to "once again launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil!" Bridenstine announced the long-awaited target launch date hours after a Russian Soyuz ferry ship brought two Americans - Jessica Meir and Drew Morgan - home from the space station and just eight days after astronaut Chris Cassidy used the agency's final contracted Soyuz seat to reach the lab complex. He will be the lone American aboard the station until the SpaceX Crew Dragon arrives. If all goes well, veteran shuttle astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, decked out in futuristic SpaceX pressure suits and driven to the launch pad in a Tesla SUV, will blast off from historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:32 p.m. EDT on May 27. The slender two-stage booster will climb directly into the plane of the space station's orbit, releasing the capsule to fly on its own about 10 minutes after liftoff. From there, Behnken and Hurley, pilot of the final shuttle mission in July 2011, will monitor a mostly autonomous rendezvous, catching up with their quarry the day after launch. Following tests of the spacecraft's navigation and manual control systems, the crew will move in for docking at the lab's forward port around 11:30 a.m. on May 28. The Crew Dragon astronauts will be welcomed aboard by Cassidy, the station commander for Expedition 63, and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, launched April 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Mission duration has not yet been determined. Originally expected to last just 10 days or so, the flight is now expected to span several months, possibly up to 110 days, to maximize research time aboard the station given a single Soyuz-launched U.S. crew member between now and the foreseeable future. The mission will end with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean just off Cape Canaveral. It will be the first astronaut splashdown since the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. Before the coronavirus pandemic swept across the country, NASA managers were expecting huge crowds to gather along Florida's Space Coast for launch, along with hundreds of journalists at the Kennedy Space Center. It's not yet clear how that will play out given social distancing and other safety protocols. The Florida space center is currently closed to all but essential personnel as part of NASA's COVID-19 response framework. But Bridenstine said in a recent interview with Spaceflight Now the managers, engineers and technicians working to ready the Crew Dragon and its Falcon 9 rocket for flight are taking all possible precautions. "If people don't feel safe, they don't have to work on the mission," he said. "I've been very clear with all of the agency leaders that nobody should feel pressure to do work if they don't feel safe." If a positive case of coronavirus is confirmed among the launch team, "depending on where it is and how the person is doing the work, it may or may not impact the mission," Bridenstine said. "What we're trying to do is (make sure) that if there is a case, that we can quickly identify the people that that person was in contact with, and do the tracing and get all the people that were involved off the mission and replaced with other people." "If there's an outbreak, yeah, it will affect the date," he said. "But we're doing everything we can to minimize that eventuality." The coronavirus is a major complication in an already complicated set of interlocking initiatives aimed at insuring the uninterrupted presence of U.S. astronauts aboard the International Space Station. As a hedge against possible downstream problems or delays in the agency's commercial crew program, NASA is negotiating with Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, for a seat aboard the October Soyuz flight and another next spring. But if the Crew Dragon test flight goes well, NASA is expected to launch a second Crew Dragon later this year carrying a crew of four: Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. They would presumably remain aboard the space station for five to six months before returning to Earth. The commercial crew program was launched following a 2004 decision by the Bush administration to complete the space station and retire the space shuttle by the end of the decade. After a series of preliminary studies, a NASA-funded competition began in 2010 and on Sept. 16, 2014, the agency announced that Boeing and SpaceX would share $6.8 billion to develop independent space taxis, the first new U.S. crewed spacecraft since the 1970s. SpaceX, initially awarded $2.6 billion, designed a crewed version of its Dragon cargo ship that will ride into orbit atop Falcon 9 rockets and return to ocean splashdowns. Boeing is designing its own capsule under a $4.2 billion contract that will rely on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket for the trip to orbit. The CST-100 Starliner capsule will land in the western United States. SpaceX launched a successful unpiloted test flight of its Crew Dragon in March 2019 and hoped to launch the first piloted mission that summer or fall. But a catastrophic explosion during a subsequent ground test threw SpaceX's schedule into disarray. The problem eventually was resolved and additional tests were carried out to clear the way for launch in May. Boeing launched an unpiloted test flight of its CST-100 Starliner capsule last December, but software errors and oversights prevented a planned link up with the space station. Boeing now plans another uncrewed test flight later this year, pushing the company's first piloted mission into 2021. The commercial crew program contracts represent a new way of doing business for NASA. The spacecraft familiar from past programs - Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules, their boosters, the Skylab space station and the space shuttle - were built by private industry but owned and operated by NASA. The CCP contracts are considered public-private "commercial" agreements in which the companies, not NASA, develop the spacecraft design, are responsible for building and testing the hardware and flying the actual missions. Under these contracts, the companies must meet specified milestones to get paid and both companies are required to fly two test flights to the space station: one without a crew and one with a minimal crew of two. Once certified, NASA will underwrite at least two and as many as six flights by each contractor. Both companies are free to launch their spacecraft on non-NASA, private missions carrying non-NASA crew members and/or payloads. https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-sets-date-first-spacex-175428255.html Back to Top Back to Top Greetings from the ISASI 2020 Planning Committee. We hope this message finds you, your family, friends and associates doing as well as possible in these difficult times. For those who planned to attend the ISASI 2020 conference in Canada, we have been working extensively with all involved for some time. The annual symposium is a critical event in our International community and decisions to change it are not made lightly. In conjunction with the ISASI International Executive, we have concluded that the ISASI 2020 in Montreal will not go forward as per the original dates. At this point we have several options that are dependent upon the hotels in both Montreal and Brisbane and their willingness to be flexible and work with us. It is our hope that we can push our plans forward by one year, with 2021 being in Montreal and 2022 being in Brisbane. We will be posting the new information as soon as it is available. For those of you who submitted abstracts, the papers selection process is proceeding as planned. Once the Selection Committee has finished their work, we will be advising everyone of the successful candidates. It is our hope that those who were chosen will be able to participate next year regardless of location. For those of you who have already registered and paid for the seminar, we will be in touch with each of you soon regarding refunds. Please know that this decision was not taken lightly. The health and safety of our delegates was first and foremost on our minds and could not be put in jeopardy. On behalf of the ISASI 2020 Planning Committee, I would like to thank you for your understanding and cooperation during these difficult times. 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