President Barack Obama approved the updated National Space...
President Barack Obama approved the updated National Space Transportation Policy. The new policy allows commercial companies to compete for payload launch opportunities under new-entrant certification criteria, the policy says (http://1.usa.gov/18rMnio). The policy released Thursday said it’s aimed at fostering “more…
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efficient and capable space transportation systems and approaches that can address such challenges and enable new activities and discoveries in and from space.” The policy no longer requires an exemption to be obtained for government use of foreign launch vehicles to support hosted payload arrangements on spacecraft not owned by the U.S., it said. It said it aims to support civil space programs and activities at NASA, including the implementation of partnerships with the private sector “to develop safe, reliable and cost effective commercial spaceflight capabilities for the transport of crew and cargo to and from the International Space Station and low earth orbit.” Boeing supported the “balanced approach to developing affordable commercial crew and cargo transportation in areas of proven technology,” said a news release (http://bit.ly/1c7f0jY). The development of a commercial space sector for low-earth orbit transportation “is freeing NASA to develop a heavy lift launch capability to travel,” said the company.