HTTP:: NASA Should Partner with the Private Sector
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The time may never be more appropriate for NASA to start collaborating with partners from the private sector in its endeavors, analysts say. With massive budget restraints planned for the next few years, and with the ongoing demands of Project Constellation, the agency should start thinking of new ways to achieve its objective, and a good way to do this could be to work together with other space firms in the United States. Unlike others before him, NASA's new Administrator, Charles Boden, is firmly in favor of such collaborations, Space reports. While speaking before a Senate Committee during her July 8th confirmation hearing, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver emphasized that the commercial and private sectors might surprise everyone with their abilities, if given the chance. She added that, while NASA experts dominated the space-flight industry, those working for private companies were not bad themselves, and that they could bring an important contribution to America!
's space development, especially under the current conditions. Additionally, the White House-appointed panel that surveyed NASA activities over the last couple of months recommended recently that the agency saved about $2.5 billion from 2009 to 2014 from its own funding, in order to support private endeavors of creating spacecraft capabl...
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