Hobbs aka McDaniel wrote:
Charles Buckley wrote in message ...

Joe Strout wrote:

The White House's "Renewed Spirit of Discovery" document [1] directs the
NASA Administrator to (among many other things):

"Pursue commercial opportunities for providing transportation and other
services supporting the International Space Station and exploration
missions beyond low Earth orbit." (Section D)

This bodes well for companies like SpaceX, SpaceDev, SeaLaunch, etc.,
don't you think?



Was there anything in there about "Small Business Set-Aside"?

OSP gave a good taste of their commercialization. They put out
an RFP and took the same commercial providers.

I will believe it will help other companies when NASA actually
starts buying from other companies.


Just the perception that NASA will be buying from a company in the
future will help that company raise money today. Likewise some
companies have been selling advanced bookings on space flights
for years although that speculation may turn out to be shall we
say less than financially sound depending on what the sellers
have been doing with the cash.



There isn't any such perception though. NASA buys from
Boeing, LockMart, and OSC. There isn't anything to really
indicate any change in that.