Download the form
The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1721-1 — DD Form 1721-1, Space Test Program Flight Request Executive Summary, September 2006 — exists to Space Test Program Flight Request Executive Summary, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 106 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
Free download, every format. Do not fill the form in a browser tab — browser pdf viewers handle interactive fields inconsistently and discard entries on close.
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.
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Send it as not stated or local guidance specifies. Save a copy. Cross-service and cross-agency routing is normal for Department forms, and a lost original outside your own organization is harder to chase down.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
Limits of this page: it distributes a published Department of Defense document and describes it. No legal advice, no procedural ruling, no statement about whether any submission will be accepted. Applicability, eligibility and procedure belong to not stated, to a servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
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?