Boca Raton, FL (Vocus/PRWEB) February 22, 2011 Leading
NASA space flight safety, risk, reliability and management expert,
Dr. Feng Hsu, is now collaborating on risk assessment and management
for suborbital space flight. Xtraordinary Adventures, a Florida space
travel agency, just announced that it will offer the opportunity for
all future participants to register for suborbital space travel with
personal risk collaboration from Dr Hsu.
Mitchell J. Schultz, space tourism specialist and
managing director of Xtraordinary Adventures, recently published several
articles about the possiblities of a mishap in early private space flight,
and issued a list
of 1,000 of the most successful athletes, businesspeople, models, comedians,
authors, movie, TV and music personalities that should become more
aware now of taking a suborbital space flight.
“All these super personalities have a following and peers who
will go wild when they hear that their STAR is going on a space trip," Schultz
said. “With Dr Hsu's risk assessment of all vehicles and companies
available for suborbital space flight, Xtraordinary Adventures can
make this available for all who wish to know more. Regardless of which
vehicle they wish to fly in, this is their opportunity to be listed
and forever recognized as one of the earliest civilian space pioneers."
Within the last five years, more than 500 worldwide adventures have
already pre-registered for a suborbital space flight. SpaceShipTwo
and Lynx are scheduled to be test flown this summer in Mojave, California.
Costs remain between $95,000 and $200,000 and all future participants
must be qualified and pre-instructed on flight expectations.
It has been almost 50 years since man's first space flight, that of
Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, and with the success in 2004 of SpaceShipOne,
several private space companies are vying capture of the major market
for this once-in-a-lifetime adventure.
Due to the timeliness of expanded space travel
opportunities, it is important to carefully assess both the risks
and benefits this new experience offers. The challenge is here for
those who dare to take it on. In the words of Dr. Wernher Von Braun,
father of human space flight, "I reach for the stars."
Dr. Feng Hsu, Ph. D.
Dr. Feng Hsu is a U.S. expert with several decades of experience in
the field of Risk Analysis, Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) assessment
for complex engineering systems. Formerly a staff research engineer
at world renowned Brookhaven National Laboratory, Dr. Hsu has worked
extensively on reliability, probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) and
management theory and methodology research for nuclear reactor safety
since the 1980s. He became senior staff engineer/scientist and joined
NASA’s SAIC team in the Shuttle & Exploration Analysis
Department at Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2000. Dr. Hsu was
the lead engineering analyst and project manager working as technical
expert in the space center on NASA’s key program areas, such
as PRA, SMA for the Space Shuttle, International Space Station as
well as the risk-informed design assessment for the new generation
space launch and crew exploration vehicle systems. Dr. Hsu has published
extensively and co-authored several books by CG Publishing and Aerospace
Technology Working Group. For his work, Dr. Hsu has also won numerous
research and service awards from NASA, among others. After several
years as head of Integrated Risk Managemnt at NASA’s Goddard
Space Flight Center, Dr. Hsu has decided to take on greater challnges
to support the private space industry and is now senior vice president
of Systems Engineering and Risk Management for Space Energy, and
is fully dedicated to the development of a space solar power satellite
demo project for delivering safe, permanently renewable, environmentally
friendly and economically feasible space solar power for sustainable
development of mankind.
Xtraordinary Adventures (http://www.XtraordinaryAdventures.com)
Xtraordinary Adventures, LLC is a two-and-a-half-year-old Florida Limited
Liability Company operating from Boca Raton, Florida, and is reaching
out worldwide to extend an opportunity to interested space enthusiasts
and adventurers desirous of meeting with others of similar interests
and for registration assistance a for high adventure rocket propelled
spaceship thrill-ride into suborbital space on XCOR’s Lynx.
Xtraordinary Adventures is dedicated to providing current, factual
information, innovative ideas, interesting products, gifts, trip mementos
and quality service to enable discriminating participants in finding
answers to satisfy their quest for space knowledge and memorable space-related
experience opportunities. To this end, we are continually challenged
to explore different paths in bringing this excitement and education
in our unique style.
The founder of Xtraordinary Adventures, LLC is Mitchell J. Schultz,
innovator, world traveler, visionary and recognized leader in the world
of alternate finance, travel and media. He has also been active in
charitable programs and fundraising for more than 40 years. Schultz
is a certified SPACE TOURISM SPECIALIST and graduate of Space Tourism
University 2010. To secure your reservation and for more information,
he can be reached at (800) 358-0655 or MJS(at)XtraordinaryAdventures(dot)com.
XCOR Aerospace (http://www.XCOR.com)
XCOR Aerospace Corporation, founded in 1999, is focused on the research,
development and production of safe, reliable, reusable launch vehicles,
rocket engines and rocket propulsion systems being developed from
its headquarters at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California.
CEO Jeff Greason served on the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
In just 12 years, the firm has developed and built
11 different rocket engines and built and flown two manned rocket-powered
aircraft. XCOR is now in the phased development of its next generation
vehicle, the suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle, Lynx. In addition
to taking a pilot, initially former NASA Shuttle Commander Col. Rick
Searfoss and one spaceflight participant to the edge of space. The
vehicle will also provide affordable launch services to academic, scientific,
engineering, and observation-related markets
