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Defense Department form, series DD, number 1721-1. Full title: DD Form 1721-1, Space Test Program Flight Request Executive Summary, September 2006. Function: Space Test Program Flight Request Executive Summary. Edition in force: not stated. Publisher status: not stated.
Prescribing authority: not stated. Proponent: not stated. Unlike service-specific publications, DD forms carry Department-level authority and apply across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force and Coast Guard when operating under Defense jurisdiction.
The form reaches military personnel across the services, civilian employees of the Department, and the personnel and records specialists who receive it.
Timing of submission is fixed by not stated and by the implementing guidance of the submitting organization. What follows describes the blank document, not agency procedure.
Formats offered: PDF. Length: 1 pages. Fillable field count: roughly 106.
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What the form asks for
- Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day, no dividers).
- Part 1 - Request for Spaceflight. 1. Experiment title.
- 2. Short title/acronym.
- 3. Experiment number.
- 4. Objective.
- 5. Description (include web site if applicable).
- 6 Relevance to specific DoD requirements (include list of key relevant source documents).
- 7. Requirements summary. a. Experiment. Press space bar to mark X if instrument.
- Mark X if complete spacecraft.
- 7.b. Requested STP services. Mark X if launch services/integration.
- Mark X if spacecraft acquisition.
- Mark X if piggyback flight.
- Mark X if operations/data distribution.
- Mark X if other (sounding rocket, balloon, micro-G flight, etc.)
- Specify other service requested.
- 7.c. Repetitive or incremental flights: Mark X in first box if yes, second box if no. Use right arrow key to move between boxes.
- If yes, number of flights.
- 7.d. Flight duration required (months).
- Shuttle. Enter 1 if preferred, 2 if acceptable, or UA if unacceptable.
- ISS. Enter 1 if preferred, 2 if acceptable, or UA if unacceptable.
- Other. Enter 1 if preferred, 2 if acceptable, or UA if unacceptable.
- Freeflyer (complete section 3B). Enter 1 if preferred, 2 if acceptable, or UA if unacceptable.
- f. Power (W). Stand-by.
- Nominal.
Order of completion: identification block first, substantive entries second, certification and signature last. The blank is laid out in that sequence and the sequence is not arbitrary — later entries often depend on data established in the header.
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Related documents are located by series and number. DD forms sit in a single Department-wide sequence, so a form referenced inside DD Form 1721-1 is normally found by its number alone, without regard to service.
Some procedures pair a DD form with a service form. The two numbering systems are separate — service forms answer to a service proponent, DD forms to not stated or another Department office — and a matching number in each system means nothing.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1721-1?
- DD Form 1721-1, Space Test Program Flight Request Executive Summary, September 2006
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?