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October 26, 2011

NASA Releases Third Status Report On Commercial Partner Progress

Ambitions Program Relies On Private Industry For Transportation To ISS

NASA's industry partners continue to meet their established milestones in developing commercial crew transportation capabilities that will ferry U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station, reducing the amount of time America has to depend on Russia for launch services. NASA has outlined an ambitious program moving forward that relies on U.S. private industry to assume transportation of cargo and crew to the International Space Station, while the agency focuses on deep space exploration.

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NASA's Garver Defends Commercial Space

Points Out Russia Charges US $450 Million/Year For Crew Transport

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver spoke last week at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She called on Congress to look carefully at bang-for-buck before making arbitrary cuts in NASA's budget for developing commercial spaceflight.

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