Industry Changing US Space Practices
August 28, 2018
“Our commercial partners are challenging us to be more agile, think differently, buy smarter and develop more efficiently,” NASA’s administrator told the Washington Post, and many observers hope the agency’s evolution will spark the kind of innovation necessary to make spaceflight more routine. Seeing this trend developing, an analyst recently explained in Issues how more private companies, as well as more countries, were expanding their activities in space, and how this would require the US government to adapt its regulatory thinking to capitalize on increased collaboration.