Launching commercial space: NASA, cargo, and policy innovation
Launching commercial space: NASA, cargo, and policy innovation
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In 2013, NASA completed its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. Initiated in 2005, COTS developed a privately operated cargo transport system for the International Space Station (ISS). In doing so, it met an urgent NASA need to replace a vital space shuttle function and heralded the prospect of crew transportation. It also fostered more competition in the aerospace industry aimed at lowering costs for space access. Finally, it gave hope that low-earth orbit might someday become more the preserve of the industrial sector, so that NASA could concentrate its constrained government resources on deep-space exploration.
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Launching commercial space: NASA, cargo, and policy innovation
Space policy ; 34
2015
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English
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