{"id":70228,"date":"2017-03-27T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-398941"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T19:42:56","slug":"a-new-market-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/a-new-market-emerges\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Market Emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>NASA Partnerships Open the Path from Ground to Space <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Blue Origin's BE-3 engine in test stand\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">A BE-3 engine by Blue Origin is fired inside a test stand.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\"><strong>Blue Origin<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>NASA recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/a-decade-of-commercial-transportation-blazes-a-path-for-successful-space-ventures\" rel=\"noopener\">marked a decade<\/a> since it began a new era in commercial spaceflight development for low-Earth orbit transportation. The space agency inked agreements in 2006 to develop rockets and spacecraft capable of carrying cargo such as experiments and supplies to and from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first development agreements for elements of commercial crew spacecraft followed the initial commercial cargo agreements by about three years.  Soon after that, NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program was created to shepherd human-rating requirements into existence and certify designs of spacecraft, launch pads and ground systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aerospace companies NASA partnered with during the commercial crew and cargo development phases have infused expertise and innovation into the marketplace. These capabilities have set a foundation of new space-related industries with specialties in everything from engines and life support systems to complete spacecraft designs.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Starliner STA inside C3PF for Boeing\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg 2540w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-32352053196_6a799152de_o.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">The Structural Test Article of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner is prepped ahead of shipment for a regimen of tests to evaluate hte design in multiple conditions.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\"><strong>Boeing<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith cargo, we wanted the capability to cost-effectively deliver research experiments, hardware and supplies to the space station. With crew, we needed continued U.S. human access to low-Earth orbit,\u201d said Phil McAlister, director of NASA\u2019s Commercial Spaceflight Development Division. \u201cBut another one of the rationales was to stimulate new markets. Seeing that emerge has been really gratifying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Boeing and SpaceX are deep into final testing and manufacturing of independent spacecraft and launch systems that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station. Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner will fly into space on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. SpaceX is building the Crew Dragon spacecraft to launch on the company\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket. Both spacecraft are designed to take up to four astronauts on NASA missions, a number that will give the station a full-time crew of seven, ensuring maximum research time aboard the orbiting laboratory.  <\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A Dream Chaser in SNC Hangar \" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=300,134 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=768,344 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=1024,459 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=1536,688 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=2048,917 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=400,179 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=600,269 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=900,403 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=1200,537 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/28509405522_4cf71a3c98_o.jpg?resize=2000,896 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">A Dream Chaser is readied inside a hangar at Sierra Nevada Corporation\u2019s Colorado facility.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\"><strong>Sierra Nevada Corporation<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Through a combination of funded and unfunded space act agreements, NASA continues to provide its expertise to help advance the burgeoning commercial human space transportation industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada Corporation, partners with NASA since 2010, continue to develop and refine their respective crew spacecraft and launch systems. Under these agreements, NASA provides expertise and insight into their spaceflight designs. The benefits to NASA include a more diverse market of competition and capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Origin and NASA worked together on the testing of the company\u2019s BE-3 thrust chamber, Space Vehicle spacecraft and subsystems of the New Shepard rocket. The BE-3 has powered several flights of a prototype New Shepard rocket designed to loft its spacecraft on suborbital missions. Later rockets are designed to be more powerful to launch satellites and its Space Vehicle spacecraft into orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Crew Dragon test article in stand\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=400,267 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=900,600 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27874959665_7c03df8f3e_o.jpg?resize=2000,1333 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">A SpaceX Crew Dragon test article undergoes evaluations.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\"><strong>SpaceX<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>For Sierra Nevada Corporation, NASA provides assistance as the company refines its Dream Chaser spacecraft for future human spaceflight missions. SNC currently is developing its Dream Chaser Cargo System to fulfill a NASA contract to carry supplies to the space station and return them to Earth beginning in 2019. The winged spacecraft is designed to launch inside a payload fairing on an Atlas V rocket and at the end of the mission will glide back to Earth and land on a runway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a massive wealth of knowledge about human spaceflight, some of it gained with great sacrifice, so we set out to create a framework that could leverage that experience while allowing the companies to be innovative in developing their systems,\u201d McAlister said. \u201cThen we built in a way to give industry the incentives to produce reliable and cost effective vehicles that could be used by private citizens as well as government astronauts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Partnerships Open the Path from Ground to Space NASA recently marked a decade since it began a new era in commercial spaceflight development for low-Earth orbit transportation. The space agency inked agreements in 2006 to develop rockets and spacecraft capable of carrying cargo such as experiments and supplies to and from the International Space [...]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":80715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nasa_hds_core_meta_l10n":"en-US","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_editor":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_contacts":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_topic":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_linked_locations":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_related_articles":[],"hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_id":"","hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_type":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_x":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_y":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_gallery_images":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2801,3219,2656,2735,2861,2862],"news-tags":[],"internal-terms":[10438,10285,3917],"coauthors":[11739],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A New Market Emerges","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/a-new-market-emerges\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/a-new-market-emerges\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg"},"articleSection":"Humans in Space","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Steven Siceloff"}],"creator":["Steven Siceloff"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NASA","logo":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/nasa\/assets\/images\/nasa-logo.svg"},"keywords":["NASA Centers & Facilities","Kennedy Space Center","Commercial Space","Commercial Space Programs","Humans in Space","International Space Station (ISS)","Johnson Space Center"],"dateCreated":"2017-03-27T22:59:00Z","datePublished":"2017-03-27T22:59:00Z","dateModified":"2023-10-20T19:42:56Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"A New Market Emerges\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/a-new-market-emerges\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"post\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2017-03-27T22:59:00Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"Humans in Space\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-tags\" content=\"NASA Centers & Facilities,Kennedy Space Center,Commercial Space,Commercial Space Programs,Humans in Space,International Space Station (ISS),Johnson Space Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-author\" content=\"Steven Siceloff\" \/>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nasa.gov\/p.js"},"read_time":3,"time_ago":"7 years","featured_image":{"id":80715,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blueoriginenginetest.jpg","title":"blueoriginenginetest","alt":"Blue Origin's BE-3 engine in test stand","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552890,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70228\/revisions\/552890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70228"},{"taxonomy":"news-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tags?post=70228"},{"taxonomy":"internal-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-terms?post=70228"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=70228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}