Commercial Space is Defined; Time To Move On

摘要

I have devoted 30 years to the commercial space sector, including directing several federal offices devoted to either regulating or promoting commercial space industry, and leading White House interagency reviews that led to presidential commercial space directives that managed to gain bipartisan support. Accordingly, I read with interest Robert Bigelow's excellent commentary ["An Open Letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden," Oct. 12, page 17] in which he indicated that the NASA leadership is still questioning the definition of commercial space.