In this article, the author introduces the FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation (COE CST), with references to documentation of its history, its research structure, and its past published results. The author highlights the four research areas (commercial space operations, technologies, medicine, and industry viability), and provides an introduction to the seven technical papers published in this issue of New Space, and biographical summaries of the principal investigators. For this issue, there is at least one research task covered for each of the four research areas, representing six of the original nine COE CST member universities.
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