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Kennedy Space Center

Laboratory Information:

Kennedy Space Center
Mail Stop YA-C1
Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899
Website: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/business/index.html
Agency/Department: NASA
Region: Southeast

FLC Laboratory Representative:

Mr. David Makufka
Phone: 321-867-6227
Fax: 321-867-2050
Email: david.r.makufka@nasa.gov

Background/History of the Laboratory:

The nation's first spaceport, the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), performs preflight tests, as well as prepares and launches manned and unmanned space vehicles for NASA. The Manned Apollo and Skylab missions, as well as the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, were launched from KSC. In addition, unmanned planetary and interplanetary missions and scientific meteorological and communications satellites are launched at KSC. Some launches are from the Pacific Coast and are conducted by the KSC Western Test Range Operations Division at Lompoc, Calif. KSC has launched all Space Shuttle missions to date and will launch all shuttle missions in the foreseeable future.

Mission of the Laboratory:

KSC's mission is as follows:

  • Assembly, integration, and checkout of the space transportation system.
  • Conduct launch and landing operations for the space program.
  • Design, develop, build, operate, and maintain launch, recovery, and landing facilities; and ground support equipment required to process launch vehicle systems and their associated payloads.
  • Serve as NASA point of contact and provide logistics support for NASA activities at KSC, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and Worldwide contingency/secondary landing sites.
  • Manage orbiter flight hardware logistics.
  • Act as designated government oversight and approval authority for commercial vehicle launch operations.
  • Exercise government oversight and approval authority for commercial vehicle launch operations.

Facilities:

Technology Transfer Mechanisms:

  • Facility Sharing
  • Patents and Licensing
  • Patents and Licensing
  • Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
  • Technical Assistance
  • Dual Use/Joint Venture
  • Dual Use/Joint Venture

Technology Areas of Expertise:

  • Simulation Modeling
  • Fluid System Technologies
  • Storage and distribution
  • Vehicles
  • Interface systems
  • Production, recovery and disposal
  • Process and Human Factors Engineering
  • Operations analysis
  • Work methods measurements
  • Scheduling and capacity analysis systems
  • Biological Sciences
  • Bioregenerative life support
  • Spaceport biological research
  • Spaceport ecosystem sciences
  • Command, Control and Monitoring Technologies
  • Advanced sensors and instrumentation
  • Autonomous/intelligent control systems
  • Spaceport/system health management
  • Range Technologies
  • Weather instrumentation and prediction
  • Ground/space-based range systems
  • Decision models and simulation
  • Range information systems
  • Spaceport Structures and Materials
  • Launch structures and mechanisms
  • Corrosion science
  • Electromagnetic physics
  • Materials science
  • Non-destructive evaluation techniques

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