A new nonprofit organization that's supposed to take charge of expanding scientific research on the international space station has had a rocky first year, but now is starting to show what it can do. <\/p>\n
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space just signed one agreement with a company not traditionally linked to research in space: the sporting goods company Cobra Puma Golf. <\/p>\n
With the space station now complete after more than a decade of construction at a cost of around $100 billion, attention has turned to how to best use the station. <\/p>\n
CASIS was established to drum up interest in doing experiments by folks outside of NASA, including people who work at private companies, universities, or other federal agencies. <\/p>\n
Or, as CASIS puts it in a promotional video, the mission is to \"seek out those ready to put their ideas into orbit and to get them there.\" <\/p>\n
How CASIS Can Work <\/p>\n
\"There's some things that a nonprofit organization can do that NASA as a government entity can't do,\" says Marybeth Edeen, a manager at NASA's space station program. <\/p>\n
I'd give them a D-plus overall. <\/p>\n
- Keith Cowing, NASAwatch.com <\/p>\n
A nonprofit can go out and talk with companies and make a case for how research in orbit could potentially help their bottom line, Edeen says. A nonprofit can also raise money from investors or charities. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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