The ISS national is the 50% of the US capability of the International Space
Station which is roughly 40% of the capability of the entire international
partnership. We have a broad mission, we want to change the world using the
International Space Station. The good news is NASA provides a great value
proposition for this next, next decade. The transportation to the
non-traditional users is free so it makes a great value to utilize the space
station with people on board. You can put lower technology projects up in space
because you don't have to design quad-redundancy in some cases to advance your
technologies and test them and we have many problems to solve on the
International Space Station that will promote space exploration and there are
players on the ISS National Lab including human research program and
others that are working closely on for example astronaut health and how they
can solve some of the radiation, long-duration, osteoporosis, muscle-wasting
type problems that astronauts experience in long-duration spaceflight.
Now the ISS National Lab is diversifying into the physical sciences. It's a
wonderful opportunity and a great place in history that we live.
My optimum use of ISS would be where both traditional and new aerospace
within the United States recognize that ISS is a laboratory for, for their use. That
your R&D dollars could potentially go to ISS for exploiting the fact that it's
there. We set up system maturation teams across the agency to ensure that we
could help ourselves choose the right technologies going forward, to evaluate
things coming forward from industry and figure out what the rate things are to
fly to ISS. So if you wanted to participate how do you do that? Just give a call. It's honestly set up
to be as convenient as possible for you and, and we'll get the ball rolling for you
as to what things need to be considering, the likelihood of us being able to
partner with you potentially. It doesn't matter which door you enter through, it's all
the same space station but we're going to do what we can to to get you there as
easily as possible.
There's never been a better time or place to do research in space,
that's the short of it. The requirements for you to fly to ISS can
be boiled down to two: don't hurt the crew and don't hurt the vehicle. NASA and
ISS have provided nearly everything for you to do your experiment. You got up mass, down mass, power,
thermal, commanding data-down, the crew is there for you, there's robotics if you
need it. There's pressurized locations, there's unpressurized locations outside.
Those locations have you in any direction that you want and we;ll even
deploy you off of ISS if, if that's really what you need. And then when ISS is
done we'll be able to look at all the technology that we've proven out and go
to whoever is making the decisions at the current time and say we have sixty
build-to-print systems that we can put together and that brings the confidence
in decision-makers to go ahead and execute these missions that will then
purchase these technologies from american companies and get Americans
probably with an international partnership to other heavenly bodies and
getting everybody participated in the specific missions that got you excited
enough to get into this business in the first place.