Qualification training: 2 days at the SpaceLand Camp on the 2006 Olympic Alps in Piemonte
Mission training: 3 days at the Kennedy Space Center – Cape Canaveral Florida USA
Flight Operations: NASA Space Shuttle Landing Facility
(next missions in Spring 2009)
Missionprofile: from 20 to 40 flight phases characterized as follows (where G equals = 9.81 m/s2):
- Zero-G periods lasting 20 seconds each for a total of more than 13 minutes of Zero-G
- Lunar-G periods (0.16 G) lasting 30 s each for a total of up to 20 minutes of Moon-G
- Martian-G periods (0,32 G) lasting 40 s each for a total of up to 26 minutes of Mars-G
- Fully insured aircraft, passengers from12 to 100 years of age, also withphysical disabilities
On board resources
- Seats for 35 passengers (scientists, students, space-tourists)
- Six fixed video-cameras
- Electrical power: 110 V - 60 Hz
- NASA & Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 9-G- qualified accommodation racks
- Experiment room: 15 m x 3.5 m x 2.2 m (to be confirmed w.r.t. to payload already booked)
- Pilots, coaches, flight surgeon, safety and operations engineers
- Further resources available upon request
Logistics
- Design analysis and analytical integration: SpaceLand Control Center in Torino - Italy
- Crew-members selection, qualification, initial training: SpaceLand Camp on Olympic Alps in Piemonte (Italy)
- Physical integration, final training andflight readiness review: SpaceLand labs at the NASA Kennedy Space Center CSE institute, Cape Canaveral-Merrit Island - Florida USA
- Take off and landing facilities: NASA Space Shuttle L.F. Cape Canaveral - Florida USA or anywhere else (upon request and pending additional financial contribution)
