NASA Seeks To Commercialize Low Earth Orbit Without Commercials

摘要

NASA wants to catalyze a commercial market for research and manufacturing in low Earth orbit that will outlast the international space station, but with at most a decade of station operations remaining, the agency - which is not allowed to advertise the outpost's science capabilities - is still casting around for ideas on how to spark the revolution. Now that ISS is fully operational and NASA has hired commercial cargo haulers to bring experiments to and from orbit, the agency feels it has solved the problem of getting payloads there and must now find a killer app to convince commercial customers that the space station is someplace they need to be.