The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of USA has, for decades, maintained a tight lease over the building and operation of its spacecrafts on which it sent its astronauts and hardware into space. Though it is true that work was also farmed out to a number of private contractors, but NASA made sure that it kept with it the pink slips each time.

 

But now this prominent agency seems to be shifting its stance. This is because officials from NASA now state that the enhancing commercial spacecraft fleet looks like the only option the US has to realize its aim of a solar-system conquest on time and within affordable limits. Sam Scimemi is the head of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program.

 

He says that spaceships made by the private sector will soon be ready for government use and that it is the fresh focus for NASA’s strategic investments that made this move mandatory. Sam Scimemi further conceded that the industry has enhanced because it only used to be NASA or the Air Force that could do such things earlier.