Astra Spacelines

Astra Spacelines exists to provide safe, reliable, and frequent transportation of passengers and freight to space.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Aerospace
  • Location Chicago, IL, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2016
  • Employees 2
  • Incorporation Type LLC
  • Website astraspacelines.com

Company Summary

Astra Spacelines exists to provide safe, reliable, and frequent transportation of passengers and freight to space. Our approach to space travel is based on the proven safety record of commercial air travel and employs Horizontal Takeoff and Landing (HTOL) aircraft.
*Safety in every aspect of operations and in business.
*We will employ type-certified aircraft with “airline-like operations”

Team

  • Troy Booher
    Foudner & CEO

    Retired Service Disabled U.S. Space Command (USAF)
    20 years commercial spacecraft operations
    Started three international satellite operators
    Managed first DoD hosted payload on commercial satellite (early missile warning and detection)

  • Aaon Greenwald
    Director

    Serial Entrepreneur
    Decade of aerospace startup experience
    Booz Allen management consultant to CIA
    MA, Johns Hopkins University

  • William Good
    Director

    40 years Astronautics and Aeronautics exp.
    Patented Vehicle Threat Detection System
    DoD Missile Defense operations
    Certified Captain, Boeing 747 (Instructor)
    Martin Marietta advanced space launch sys.
    TRW Consolidated Space Operations CSOC

  • James Akkerman
    Director

    NASA - 56 years
    Rocket propulsion
    Shuttle systems engineering
    Advanced orbiter engineering
    Competitor for X-Prize
    7 Aeronautic patents
    10 publications

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