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Posted by Edward Wright () at 00:10 GMT on 13 Apr 2001



Just in case anyone still thinks NASA is serious about ISS commercialization:

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=318

> Goldin said that he was hopeful that NASA would move ahead with
> its plan to transfer significant portions of the utilization of
> U.S. assets on the ISS to a NGO (Non Governmental Organization).
> He said that he expected an RFP to be issued within 6 months and
> that a down-selection would be made from the offers received. He
> said that he hoped that the responses to the NGO RFP would not be
> from bidders such as real estate developers. "Where's the benefit
> in that?" he said. Rather, he hoped that there would be consortia
> developed between academia and the research community so as to
> bring a value-added apparoch by whomever was chosen to develop
> and operate the NGO - and ISS utilization.

"Real estate developers"? Who do you suppose he means by that? :-)





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