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Old July 4th 05, 01:44 AM
Jim Kingdon
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Default Mike Griffin on Commercialization

There's an interesting account at
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1034 of a talk that Mike
Griffin (NASA administrator) gave about commercialization.

He talks about starting with purchasing ISS resupply in a commercial
way.

He seems to be talking sense: fixed cost, non-micro-managed. But
there are plenty of obstacles to truly procuring this service in a
commercial way, and some parts of his speech which were unclear. In
particular:

* What does he mean by:

I still don't think we can buy an ICBM or a launch vehicle quite
yet from a "non-traditional provider", although I'd like to get
there.

? Purchasing ISS resupply would mean buying a launch plus some
other stuff, right? So if a launch vehicle is too hard, what would
he start with?

* Of course there are plenty of details, about what standards the
vehicle will have to meet (vibration, docking interfaces, thermal,
etc, etc, etc). It all sounds solvable but it would be very easy
for NASA to (accidentally or otherwise) overconstrain the solution
simply on the basis of what they've done in the past. Griffin does
briefly discuss this issue at the end of the Q&A.

Here's another tidbit:

So look for something by early Fall. This is the first day of
Summer. Look for something by very early Fall.

 




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