Culbertson to speak at Space Club

Orbital Sciences Corporation Senior Vice President and Deputy General Manager Frank Culbertson will be the guest speaker for the National Space Club meeting Tuesday. His presentation is "Commercial Space Flight." The luncheon event begins at 11:30 a.m. at the Radisson at the Port, Cape Canaveral.

Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Culbertson’s responsibilities include the execution and performance of all Orbital programs related to human space flight including the Commercial Orbital Transportation System Program and the Launch Abort System Program for the Orion spacecraft.

Prior to this position at Orbital, he was a Senior Vice President at SAIC, following an 18-year career as a NASA Astronaut. Culbertson has flown three space missions and logged over 144 days in space as Shuttle commander, pilot and space station crewmember. Culbertson also held several key management positions within the NASA Shuttle and ISS programs and was program manager of the Shuttle-Mir Program.

A 1971 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Culbertson was a naval aviator, a fighter pilot and a test pilot.

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