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SATOP launches from Johnson Space Center
Houston, TX – The Clear Lake Area Economic
Development Foundation (CLAEDF) launches the expansion
of the Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program
(SATOP) at a reception located at the Johnson Space
Center Visitor Complex on April 12, 2001.
CLAEDF, in partnership with the State of
Florida’s Technological Research and Development
Authority (TRDA), has supported and managed the SATOP
for 2 years in the Clear Lake area only.
The CLAEDF has modeled their program after the
TRDA’s SATOP.
The TRDA has been administering the SATOP in
Florida since its inception in 1995 in conjunction
with Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
The
Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program lets small
and medium businesses tap into the topmost minds
within America’s space program to solve technical
challenges for free!
Utilizing a network of partnering aerospace
companies, universities, colleges and NASA centers
that provide SATOP with the professionals to solve the
challenges outlined in the brief forms submitted by
businesses.
At
the reception, special guest House Majority Whip Tom
DeLay made the announcement that the SATOP has
expanded statewide in Texas.
In addition, the
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announcement
explained that the SATOP benefited from a $6 million
grant from NASA to expand the Florida and Texas
programs and would be a multi-state partnership with
Florida, New Mexico, New York, and Texas to provide
free engineering technical assistance to small
businesses. Mr. Jim Reinhartsen, executive director of CLAEDF, presented
an award to Congressman Tom DeLay in appreciation for
his efforts in supporting the space program and the
SATOP. Mr.
Jay Honeycutt, president of Lockheed Martin, was also
presented an award from CLAEDF for his efforts in
supporting and establishing the SATOP in Florida in
1995 while he was the center director of KSC.
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Congressman Tom DeLay
presents award to Jay Honeycutt for his support for
SATOP and the Space program.
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From left to Right:
Congressman Tom DeLay, Mr. Jay Honeycutt, and Mr. Jim
Reinhartsen
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The space industry continues to prove to be a valuable
initiative. The space initiative is not only for the
benefit of space exploration, but also for the benefit
of mankind through the advances of technology and
research that come from the space industry.
SATOP communicates this message by stimulating the
awareness of these benefits through helping
businesses. This
expansion will broaden the outreach and re-establish
the public’s confidence in the US Space program. The
SATOP accomplishes this by bringing space solutions
down to earth.
For
related articles, please click on the links below:
Florida
Today Article
Orlando
Sentinel Article
NASA
Administrator - Dan Goldin - and Congressman Walsh
announce the program expansion to the State of New
York
American
Chamber of Commerce Executives Article
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