Kelvin Manning director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center welcomes participants to an industry conference inside the Television Auditorium at Kennedy.

Kelvin Manning, associate director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, welcomes participants to an industry conference inside the Television Auditorium at Kennedy. The conference was held following the program's request for proposals from commercial companies for a development and certification contract called the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability CCtCap. The contract will provide a finish line for the agency following more than four years of development work by CCP and American aerospace companies. CCtCap is the second phase of a two-phase certification plan for privately built and operated integrated crew transportation systems. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann