You have arrived looking for DD Form 1721-1. Before you download, confirm this is the right document: Space Test Program Flight Request Executive Summary. Full title: DD Form 1721-1, Space Test Program Flight Request Executive Summary, September 2006.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
Fill every box as you come to it. If an item does not apply, enter N/A — an empty field looks like an oversight, and the form comes back to you. Watch the date fields especially: use the format the form specifies, not your habitual one.
Stop at the Privacy Act Statement and read it through. You will find the authority for the collection, the principal purpose, the routine uses, and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. Read it now, while you still have the choice of what to disclose.
Finish with the certification. Print the form and sign in ink, or apply a digital signature with your CAC if the receiving office accepts one. Do not type your name in the signature box and consider it done; that is a name, not a signature. Date the block immediately after signing.
Review before you submit. Look for a superseded edition, blank mandatory fields, illegible writing, dates in the wrong format, and an unsigned or undated certification.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
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First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 106 fields.
Take the pdf if you are unsure. Then check which kind you have: if the boxes highlight when you click them, you have a fillable pdf and can type straight into it, and your entries save with the file. If nothing highlights, you have a printable pdf — send it to a printer and use black ink.
Go with the typed route whenever the choice is yours. Consider what happens after you submit: the copy gets scanned, forwarded and filed, and each pass costs handwriting some legibility. Block letters help if you are stuck with a pen.
Before you take the xfdl file, make sure you can open it. Install IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent client first, because your pdf reader will refuse the file. Then download and complete it as normal.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
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.
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Come back and check the edition next time you need this form. Editions change when the prescribing directive is reissued, when the information collected changes, or when the required notice language is updated, and none of those events reaches you directly. Verifying not stated at the moment you download is the whole defence.
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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?