Pat Flannery writes:
David Spain wrote:
Maybe NASA will be re-directed to the COTS approach and contract
launch services with a man-rated the Dragon capsule?

It certainly does make a major opening for the COTS approach to things.


Would Obama consider spining off ISS services to a quasi-public
corporation ala Amtrak and move NASA over to being more like
its NACA predecessor?

It would be great if that could happen, but NASA seems so dysfunctional at the
moment that it might be better to just kill it and start over with something
new.

There is a possible precedent. If United Space Alliance or its equiv. would
accept a money-losing contract to support the ISS using a COTS launcher and
capsule, with the difference made up by the govt, that would be one way around
the ISS support dilemma and would perhaps be a more efficient way to directly
fund ISS support w/o the overhead of NASA centers not directly involved in ISS
ops.

Those NASA centers better find a good reason to exist if/when the NACA
conversion happens.

Dave