{"id":7461,"date":"2010-02-03T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa-supports-commercial-innovation\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:09:00","slug":"nasa-supports-commercial-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/nasa-supports-commercial-innovation.php","title":{"rendered":"NASA Supports Commercial Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9ac91_421605main_image_1579_800-600.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Supports Commercial Innovation\" border=\"1\"><\/div><div><span><span>NASA Administrator<\/span> <span>Charles Bolden<\/span> spoke during a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, at the National Press Club in Washington, where it was announced that <span>NASA<\/span> has awarded $50 million through funded agreements to further the commercial sector's capability to support transport of crew to and from low <span>Earth <\/span>orbit.<p>Through an open competition for funds from the <span>American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009<\/span>, <span><a href=\"http:\/\/spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\/\">NASA<\/a> awarded Space Act Agreements<\/span> to <span>Blue Origin of Kent,<\/span> Wash.; The Boeing Company of Houston; Paragon Space Development Corporation of Tucson, Ariz.; Sierra Nevada Corporation of Louisville, Colo.; and United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colo. The agreements are for the development of crew concepts and technology demonstrations and investigations for future commercial support of human spaceflight.<\/p><p>From left: <span>Ken Bowersox<\/span>, VP Astronaut Safety, SpaceX; David Thompson, CEO, Orbital Science Corporation; Mark Sirangelo, VP and Chair, SNC Space Systems Board, <span>Sierra Nevada Corp<\/span>.; <span>NASA <\/span>Administrator <span>Charles Bolden<\/span>; Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy <span>Dr. John P. Holdren<\/span>;<span> Jane Poynter<\/span>, President and Chair, Paragon Space Development Corp.; Brewster Shaw, VP and General Manager, NASA Systems, Boeing; Robert Millman of Blue Origin; Mike Gass, President and Chief Executive, United Launch Alliance.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/pdf\/421399main_commercial_summaries.pdf\">Commercial Space Company Summaries<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/pdf\/421570main_Bolden_Press_Club_Remarks.pdf\">Administrator Bolden's Remarks<\/a><\/p><p><\/p><\/span><\/div><p><span>View my blog's last three great articles.... <\/span><\/p><ul><li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/infrared-view-of-galaxy.html\">An Infrared View of the Galaxy<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/solar-dynamics-observatory.html\">Solar Dynamics Observatory<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/suspected-asteroid-collision-leaves.html\">Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Trailing Debri...<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><\/p><hr><p><span>View this site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaat.com\/\" title=\"car shipping\">car shipping<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaat.com\/\" title=\"car transport\">car transport<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaat.com\/\" title=\"auto transport\">auto transport<\/a><\/span><\/p><hr><p><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/2a15a_1205796008215741128-1603102494048882342?l=spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Administrator Charles Bolden spoke during a press conference, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, at the National Press Club in Washington, where it was announced that NASA has awarded $50 million through funded agreements to further the commercial sector's capability to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/nasa-supports-commercial-innovation.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-station"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}