Space Product Development

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The commercial development of the space frontier is one of the greatest opportunities facing America. It is the growth of business into space that will bring the benefits of space down to Earth and enrich the everyday lives of all Americans. NASA is encouraging businesses to seize this opportunity through its Space Product Development Office, to ensure the continued economic growth of the U.S. and to bring the opportunities for new advances, technological understanding, products, and jobs to the public.

This effort is one of NASA's major goals, and the goal of the Space Product Development Office is to help American business explore the potential — and reap the rewards — of doing business in space. This not only ensures improvements to our everyday lives, but also establishes a commercial demand for space. Doing this, however, requires that seeds be planted with American businesses.

These seeds are in the form of alliances with industry and academia through Commercial Space Centers that support the full spectrum of commercial research. These Centers, located at academic institutions such as universities, are currently funded by NASA and charged with developing industry partners to pursue specific areas of commercial research. These partners have to help pay an increasing portion of the funding for operations and research, since the ultimate goal is to generate a demand for doing business in space.

For more information on the program, you may download a PDF file of our brochure Bringing the Benefits of Space Down to Earth.

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