# Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee—Open Meeting
**AGENCY:**
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
**ACTION:**
Notice of Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee open meeting.
**SUMMARY:**
Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C. App. 2), notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). The meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 26, 2005, starting at 8 a.m. at the Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters Building, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC, in the Bessie Coleman Conference Center, located on the 2nd floor. This will be the forty-second meeting of the COMSTAC.
The proposed agenda for the meeting will feature a briefing on the role of Government launch sites for future space operations, an activities report from FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, and reports from the Committee's working groups. An agenda will be posted on the FAA Web site at *http://ast.faa.gov/COMSTAC* . Meetings of the COMSTAC Working Groups (Technology and Innovation, Reusable Launch Vehicle, Risk Management, and Launch Operations and Support) will be held on Tuesday, October 25, 2005. For specific information concerning the times and locations of the working group meetings, contact the contact person listed below.
Individuals who plan to attend and need special assistance, such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should inform the contact person listed below in advance of the meeting.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Brenda Parker (AST-100), Office of the Commercial Space Transportation, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 331, Washington, DC 20591, telephone (202) 267-3674; e-mail *[email protected].*
Issued in Washington, DC, September 19, 2005.
Patricia Grace Smith,
Associate Administrator for Commercial, Space Transportation.