Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) Meeting in Washington Thursday, May 10, 2001

WASHINGTON -- The 33rd meeting of the Commercial Space
Transportation Advisory Committee will be held on, Thursday,
May 10 at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Headquarters
in Washington from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The meeting will be chaired by Livingston L. Holder, Jr., manager
of the Space and Launch Segment, Resource 21 at The Boeing
Co. Holder will introduce several new members recently
appointed to the committee by Secretary of Transportation
Norman Y. Mineta. The new members are Dr. Mae Jemison,
president The Jemison Group, Inc.; Dr. Mark J. Albrecht,
president, International Launch Services; George Thomas Marsh,
president for Denver Operations, Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Co.; and Janet Sadler, formerly an insurance underwriter for
Lloyds of London. Jemison is the first African-American female
to travel to space and Sadler is the first international COMSTAC
member in the history of the committee.

Highlights of the meeting will include a briefing on the Department
of Defense's Space Commission and the release of the 2001
Commercial Space Transportation Market Forecast. This annual
forecast includes the COMSTAC Commercial Launch Demand
Model and the FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Projections
for Non-Geosynchronous Orbits.

COMSTAC's four working groups, Technology and Innovation,
Risk Management, Reusable Launch Vehicles, and Launch
Operations and Support will meet on Wednesday, May 9, also at
FAA Headquarters.