Posted on 08/29/2018 9:18:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Regulations currently keep such scenes in the realm of fantasy, but that could change soon. NASA is creating a new committee that will investigate expanding commercial activities and collaborations in low-Earth orbit and beyond, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday (Aug. 29).
"We're talking about, potentially Is it possible for NASA to offset some of its costs by selling the naming rights to its spacecraft, or the naming rights to its rockets?" Bridenstine said during a public meeting of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) at the agency's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California.
"I'll tell you, there is interest in that right now," he added. "The question is, Is it possible? The answer is, I don't know. But we're looking to the committee to give us advice on whether or not it is."
The new regulatory and policy committee will be part of the NAC. It will be chaired by Mike Gold, an attorney who's also Vice President for Regulatory, Policy, and Government Contracts at Colorado-based space-tech company Maxar Technologies.
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You do not understand. You have already lost. You lost when you resorted to attempted ridicule. Your folly has become public record.
You sound like the guy who came up with this...
Your 5th attempt at ridicule.
Still not working.
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