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NASA to work with private industry

More details on NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe's announcement on Thursday ...

The panel said in its final report last week: "NASA's relationship to the private sector, its organizational structure, business culture and management processes -- all largely inherited from the Apollo era -- must be decisively transformed to implement the new, multi-decadal space exploration vision."

Among other recommendations, the panel said NASA should rely more on private industry for its space objectives.

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However, he added that the transformed agency would be able to call on the talents of private aeronautical professionals, such as SpaceShipOne designer Burt Rutan.

"We can create an environment to motivate the Burt Rutans and folks like them to continue to excel and do great things ... making what we have more freely available, more accessible and by being a friendlier environment to entrepreneurs," O'Keefe said.

Excellent!

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