Space Venture Risks and Rewards
September 20, 2019
Space ventures are involving more countries and more private companies than ever, and the US government must adjust accordingly, an analyst recently noted in Issues. NASA is responding by upping its support for companies pursuing diverse space activities, in an effort to tap into projected innovations and cost savings. But progress is not always smooth, as officials of a small Pittsburgh-based start-up developing a lunar lander observed in a live-stream broadcast of India’s last-minute failure to land a spacecraft safely on the moon.