January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
.... NASA first raised the idea that it might embark on a joint development with a commercial partner to create a commercial space station facility under a NASA Space Act Agreement arrangement. This approach had already been used successfully to develop...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
...longer be the owners and operators of the LEO environment. I was a reluctant convert to commercial space flight, but now I travel the world to promote commercial space capabilities for low Earth orbit - Charlie Bolden So NASA made the decision to get...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... recreation. Realising that this would soon be an issue, the US introduced into US domestic law (via the Commercial Space Law Amendments Act 2004 and the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act 2015) two distinct categories of personnel engaged...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... SpaceX’s Dragon - designed to carry crew to low Earth orbit (LEO). But these commercial enterprises are looking to carry more than just government space agency astronauts. The questions are: who might such passengers be, where might...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
...a novel collaboration between industry and NASA, which we will discuss later. Collaboration between governments and commercial space companies is not anecdotal but part of a growing trend. There is an increasing overlap between private and government...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... a lot of time on it, what’s happening in the other parts of the world that don’t have a space programme? In a world that is becoming ever more commercial, NASA’s role is fundamentally changing - would you like to expand on that? I think NASA has...
