Paragon Space Development Corporation is an American company headquartered in

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. Paragon is a provider of environmental controls for extreme and hazardous environments. They design, build, test and operate life-support systems and leading thermal-control products for astronauts, contaminated water divers, and other extreme environment explorers, as well as for uncrewed space and terrestrial applications.

History

Paragon was conceived to combine the expertise of biology, chemistry and aerospace engineering to develop technical solutions to life support and thermal control problems related to human and biological spaceflight. Paragon was founded by six principal partners including Grant Anderson,

Taber MacCallum Taber MacCallum is the co-founder and co-CEO of Space Perspective, a human spaceflight company planning to take people and payloads to the edge of space by balloon, and the former Chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF). He is c ...

Jane Poynter Jane Poynter is an American aerospace executive, author and speaker. She is founder, co-CEO and CXO of Space Perspective, a luxury space travel company. She was co-founder and former CEO of World View Enterprises, a private near-space exploration ...

, Dave Bearden, Max Nelson, and Alicia (Cesa) Pederson. Prior to co-founding Paragon, Anderson was employed at Lockheed Martin,

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, MacCallum and Poynter were members of

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, David was at

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, El Segundo, California, (where he is still employed), Max was at the RAND Corporation, and Cesa was a manager at

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. MacCallum served as CEO of Paragon from its inception until his move to serve as chief technology officer of

World View Enterprises World View Enterprises, Inc., doing business as World View, is a private American near space exploration and technology company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, founded with the goal of increasing access to and the utilization of the stratosphere ...

, Inc., a company incubated by Paragon. Jane, formerly president and chairman of the Board of Paragon and Former World View CEO, and Taber are now co-CEO's of

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. Taber, Max, David and Grant had all previously attended International Space University Summer Sessions, through which they became connected.

Current projects

* Paragon is providing the CST-100 Humidity Control Subassembly (HCS) for cabin atmospheric humidity control of the

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Crew Space Transportation System (CCTS) and Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft. * Paragon, a Lockheed Martin subcontractor on the

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

Orion program, provided the tubing for life-support systems including oxygen, heating and cooling and critical sensor packages for the EFT-1 flight. * Paragon is partnered with Oceaneering Space Systems to build an exploration EVA space suit which will be demonstrated at

ISS The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (J ...

and will enable NASA's future exploration missions. Paragon is leading the thermal design and analysis effort, and is providing components for the portable life support system. * Paragon is under contract with

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to develop concepts for life support and spacesuits, with the goal of a human colony on Mars.

History

2012

* In March 2012, Paragon announced that its NASA-funded air revitalization technology would be used in mine refuge chambers.

2013

* In February 2013, Paragon announced its involvement with the

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foundation and their mission to launch an historic journey to Mars and back in 501 days. * In March 2013, Paragon announced that it had entered into a Space Act Agreement with NASA for Inspiration Mars Evaluation * In March 2013, Paragon announced that it had contracted with Mars One to perform an initial conceptual design of the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) and Mars Surface Exploration Spacesuit System.

2014

* In June 2014, Paragon announced that its offshoot company, World View Enterprises, Inc., successfully completed a scaled systems test of the proposed nominal tourist flight profile to ''nearspace''. World View uses a

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to rise to 32 km (20 miles) above the earth, after which it returns gently back down to earth beneath a remotely guided parafoil. Although not reaching space, the curvature of the Earth and the blackness of space can be seen. Commercial flights are expected to cost $75,000. * In September 2014, Paragon was selected by NASA to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. * On October 24, 2014, Paragon along with

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and the Paragon StratEx team completed a record-breaking near-space dive from an altitude of over 135,000 feet. * On November 3, 2014, Paragon announced that Grant Anderson was named president and CEO and Ron Sable was named chairman of the board while Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum had fully transitioned to World View Enterprises, Inc.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.paragonsdc.com/ Ecological experiments Space Act Agreement companies

History

Current projects

History

2012

2013

2014

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