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by ateevchopra 4576 days ago
This is really great. There are so many fields where companies can revolutionise the world but who would have thought about making a space company that would one day stand along NASA ... Possibilities are endless.
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Privatized space transit and logistics have been the strategies pursued for at least a decade by the US Congress and NASA, so I'm not surprised by this.

The idea is that NASA will focus on hard and expensive "future" space science now that trans-atmospheric transit is commoditized.

NASA Completion of the COTS program here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjpIv4B1W-g , worth a watch if you're interested in this