NASA is making plans to competitively select a domestic nonprofit organization to manage experiments aboard the international space station (ISS), according to agency officials, and is expected to set aside at least 50 percent of U.S. research capacity aboard the orbiting outpost for non-NASA use.rn"It's time to start making a NASA investment in the buyers, the nongovernment end-users, so that we stimulate a future nongovernmental market," NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver said in remarks at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight here Oct. 21. "That's our objective in establishing a nonprofit organization to stimulate, develop and manage use of ISS by entities other than the government."
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