Group Says U.S. Is Not Pushing Private Space Effort Hard Enough

摘要

The United States needs to embrace commercial human spaceflight and scale down NASA's role in flying astronauts to low Earth orbit, a new conservative organization says. Members of the group called the Competitive Space Task Force argued at a press conference in Washington Feb. 8 that the country must be far more aggressive in stimulating commercial opportunities in space, while government-led space exploration should focus on more-advanced goals such as nuclear-powered rocket engines.