Patti Grace Smith tells AIAA Crowd That America Must Embrace New Commercial Space Companies
Patti Grace Smith issued a rallying cry for commercial space transportation on Thursday at an AIAA symposium on Innovation in Orbit: An Exploration of Commercial Crew and Cargo Transportation.
The former Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation at the FAA, who is now a consultant, said that “America is losing the space race.” To be more competitive “we must embrace the new space companies, the private sector, in a way we never have before.” She postulated a future where commercial spaceflight would be the answer to low Earth orbit while NASA focused on “full ISS utilization and sustainable exploration beyond — a real, no kidding, public-private partnership”. The full text of her remarks are available here.
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