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  Contractors Deliver Shuttle Replacement Proposals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Lacefield said the 1.0 lift-to-drag ratio would allow an EELV launch of the lifting body shape, which has only two body flaps for aerodynamic control, without a fairing.
Lacefield said the Lockheed CEV concept was created with the expectation that an early mission to the ISS could be added to the requirements.
Lacefield said his vehicle would be able to deliver about 5,000 lb.
www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?view=story&id=news/05095p05.xml   (1250 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Cleon Lacefield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Should an errant piece of foam smash into the side of this spaceship, a second layer of insulation would protect the crew.
"This is the capsule, the part here is the capsule it is 16 and a half feet in diameter, holds four to six crewmen," said Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin's CEV program manager, Cleon Lacefield, has confirmed that EADS will not be involved in Phase 1 of the CEV program.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Lacefield_Cleon_354184364.htm   (187 words)

  
 PR 97-250
Since then the X-33 team's weight reduction efforts, modifications to the design of the vehicle's canted and vertical fins, and plans to use densified propellants to carry additional fuel have paved the way for a successful program, Austin said.
"I'm very pleased with the technical definition of the program," said Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works X-33program manager.
Gene Austin, NASA X-33 program manager; Jerry Rising, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works vice president X-33/RLV; and Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works X-33 program manager, are scheduled to participate.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/x-33/97-250.htm   (563 words)

  
 July - December 1999
Gene Austin, NASA X-33 Program Manager, and Cleon Lacefield, Skunk Works, represented the X-33 program during a NASA X-vehicle press conference held today 1 - 3 PM EDT at NASA Headquarters broadcast over NASA television.
According to one report, the outer skin and honeycomb center apparently pulled away from the inner lining.
Gene Austin, NASA's X-33 Program Manager, and his Lockheed Martin Skunk Works counterpart, Cleon Lacefield, went to Marshall late today (4 November) to survey the problem.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/x-33/1999a.htm   (3276 words)

  
 Crew Exploration Vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to the French daily Le Figaro and the publication Aviation Week and Space Technology, EADS SPACE Transportation would be in charge of the design and construction of the associated Mission Module.
The head of the Lockheed team is Cleon Lacefield.
The Lockheed Martin design is quite similar to their OSP design, but has some slight changes, mainly the presence of the mission module.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crew_Exploration_Vehicle   (4693 words)

  
 al.com's Printer-Friendly Page
The resemblance to Apollo ends at the shape, said Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin's CEV program manager.
The new capsule will be lighter even though it will carry four people to the moon.
Houston's Johnson Space Center, responsible for NASA's manned space flight programs, will manage the CEV program, but aerospace companies say Marshall Space Flight Center's more than 40 years' experience in spacecraft design are valuable to it.
www.huntsvillealabamausa.com /news/tech_news/110605_rocket.htm   (796 words)

  
 Aerojet Instrumental in Kistler Aerospace First Fully Reusable Launch Vehicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Space Systems/Loral will be the first commercial launch customer in 1999, as indicated in the recently signed $100 million contract with Kistler Aerospace for ten launches aboard the Kistler K-1 vehicle.
Aerojet's Kistler Program Director Cleon Lacefield is extremely pleased with the major role Aerojet has in the development of the K-1 launch vehicle.
Aerojet will also be the prime subcontractor for not only launch support, but also building a new launch site, including a state-of-the-art launch integration facility and launch stand.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/57703&EDATE=   (316 words)

  
 NASA Sets Crew Exploration Vehicle Procurement Guidelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Under Lockheed Martin's team, EADS would specifically play an important role in development of a CEV autonomous docking system "and the long-duration module, an astronaut habitat on the Moon," said Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin vice president and CEV program manager.
Lacefield said industry executives also admire the draft RFP's detailing of risk reduction emphasis to reach a successful final design and its focus on management processes to assess progress and cost.
The scope of the overall exploration program, for both human and robotic elements, is expanding rapidly, with about 70 contracts let already, says Steidle.
www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/01315wna.xml   (1642 words)

  
 Cleon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cleon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi, Cleon, Karshish, Balaustion, and many scores of others, make of his poems a great gallery of portraits unsurpassed in interest by those of any author whatever except Shakspere.
Well, sir, I don't believe any boy in the form enjoyed the sets-to between Cleon and the Sausage-seller more than I did-- eh, Arthur?
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Cleon   (205 words)

  
 Teams duel over NASA’s next spaceship - Space.com - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
"We’re ready to move forward," said Cleon Lacefield, vice president and program manager for the CEV at Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
Lacefield said the CEV program maximizes astronaut safety, with abort coverage provided for all aspects of flight.
Still needed, however, is more understanding of how the CEV’s solid rocket booster ride is progressing … to better tie data into the abort modes of the vehicle, he said.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12988843/page/2   (889 words)

  
 CNN - 'X' marks the future: NASA moves forward with space-planes - August 24, 1999
The plan for the X-33 is to reduce the turn-around time for flights, with two consecutive seven-day flights planned during the test program, said Gene Austin, the X-33 program manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
Measuring 70 feet long and a bit more across, the X-33 weighs 75,000 pounds without any fuel or cargo, said Cleon Lacefield, the program manager at Lockheed Martin.
The X-34 rocket-plane is designed to be carried to an altitude of 40,000 feet and then released by an L-1011 cargo plane owned by Orbital Sciences, NASA's industry partner for the project, for flights at Mach 8 at the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.
www.cnn.com /TECH/space/9908/24/x.program.briefing   (1063 words)

  
 Transterrestrial Musings
When asked about the status of the VentureStar full-scale operational vehicle, Cleon Lacefield replied that it remained a "top effort" and that the firm's Space Launch Initiative proposal has the VentureStar architecture.
Lacefield stated that VentureStar risk reduction efforts would take place during the period prior to 2005, and that the first VentureStar flight would take place sometime in 2010 to 2012.
Toward the end of the press conference, Gene Austin characterized the X-33 project as the "most significant program in a long time" and the "best assignment of my career." He then announced his retirement from the program and from NASA effective January 3, 2001, and his return to Alabama during the summer of 2001.
www.transterrestrial.com /archives/001940.html   (5261 words)

  
 t/Space Offers an Option for Closing Shuttle, CEV Gap
There is at least some interest from CEV contender Lockheed Martin in the t/Space approach.
Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin vice president and CEV program manager, said in a May 3 interview they have a cooperative relationship with t/Space and are poised to take advantage of the CXV system should it come to pass.
The CXV, Gump and Alexander said, also could be used to ferry four to six astronauts to and from the international space station and serve as a crew lifeboat, solving one of NASA's looming problems without compromising the CEV's lunar transport mission.
www.space.com /spacenews/businessmonday_050509.html   (1735 words)

  
 EXN.ca | Discovery
According to NASA, the craft will now fly its first test runs in July 1999, instead of April.
Lockheed official Cleon Lacefield attributes the four-month delay to a planned reworking of the X-33's hydrogen tank.
He says that the 15 scheduled tests of the X-33 could be held between July and September of 1999.
www.exn.ca /Stories/1997/11/04/02.asp   (618 words)

  
 Yorkshire CND - Reusable Spacecraft in the Works - 25/8/99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It is a 69-foot-long, wedge-shaped craft that is launched vertically and then lands like an airplane after a gliding descent from orbit.
Cleon Lacefield said a goal of the X-33 program was to build a spacecraft that could be launched every seven days by as few as 50 people from simple spaceports that could be located virtually anywhere.
The X-33 will start a series of 15 test flights next summer.
cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/reuse.htm   (633 words)

  
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 U.E.A.F. - France In Space - Les Actualités spatiales française N° 282 du 02/02/2005
With guidance from the NASA draft request for proposals (RFP) now in hands, Lockheed Martin announced that it is teaming with several industrialists, including the European EADS Space Transportation for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) development contract.
Under this team, EADS would specifically play an important role in development of a CEV autonomous docking system and a long-duration manned lunar module, said Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin vice president and CEV program manager.
EADS Space Transportation has acquired experience in automated space vehicles as well as rendez-vous and docking operations, especially through the development of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV).
www.ueaf.net /actualites/fis_282.html   (1070 words)

  
 AW&ST article on CEV [Lockheed goes for the extra point] - Forums powered by UBBThreads™
An Abort/Escape System (AES) rocket tower is affixed to the nose of the CM for pad and ascent abort propulsion.
"[Cleon] Lacefield [vice president and CEV program manager] said the lifting body shape would broaden the rescue envelope across the entire flight profile by eliminating "fl zones where we could not recover the crew because of g-loads.
When we were looking at the reentry profiles from both the Moon and Mars, and...at our abort profiles, [we saw] some pretty high gs...on the crews, for example the Apollo capsule coming in was around 8gs.
uplink.space.com /showthreaded.php?Board=missions&Number=224877   (1747 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: X-33 Liquid Oxygen Tank Successfully Completes Stress Tests
NASA engineers applied internal pressure and external loads to the duplicate 6,000-pound aluminum tank, which is identical to the actual flight tank that was installed in X-33 and will eventually hold 181,000 pounds of liquid oxygen.
The X-33 is being developed under a cooperative agreement between NASA and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, Calif. Lockheed's Michoud Space Systems in New Orleans designed and built both the test tank and the flight tank.
"Thanks to our combined knowledge on aluminum cryogenic tanks," Lacefield said, "we recognized we could install the flight tank while validating its exact duplicate at Marshall.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/1999/05/990507122929.htm   (1713 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
> > "I'm very pleased with the technical definition of the >program," said Cleon Lacefield, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works X-33 >program manager.
> > "We are now ready to focus on vehicle fabrication and >launch site construction," Lacefield added.
Planned landing sites are located at >Dugway Proving Ground, UT, and Malmstrom Air Force Base, MT. > > -end- > >NOTE TO EDITORS: NASA and Lockheed Martin have scheduled a >media teleconference with program officials to discuss the >Critical Design Review beginning at 11 a.m.
www.observations.org /Science/Nasa/X-33prog.html   (808 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Steve Winesett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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Other supporters included Bill Mayo from Mayo Aviation; Gil Utterback and Chuck Halderman from the Denver Jet Center; Children's Hospital Foundation President and CEO Steve Winesett; foundation director of special events Leslie McKay, her husband, Tom Philand, and their 4-month-old son, Aidan; Janice and Cleon Lacefield; Marilyn and Neal Adams; and Elizabeth Adams.
Steve Winesett will join The Children's Hospital Foundation as President and CEO on October 11.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Winesett_Steve_10483199.htm   (269 words)

  
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 1998
I am excited to report that several of our members accompanied me on a visit to the famed Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale to receive a briefing on the X-33 RLV (reusable launch vehicle) and its larger follow-up sibling, the Venture Star RLV.
In addition to a special briefing given by Jerry J. Rising, vice president of RLV/X-33, Cleon Lacefield program manager for X-33, and Gene Austin, NASA liaison, our group was treated to a rare tour of the actual X-33 vehicle now under construction.
Next month's issue will feature extended coverage of the X-33 program and highlights of OCSS's penetration of the Skunk Works.
www.mach25media.com /1998.html   (7090 words)

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