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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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