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NASA is exploring product endorsements, rocket naming rights: Report
Updated On: 04 September, 2018 01:48 PM IST | Washington | IANS
While Bridenstine stressed that he did not know if this kind of commercialisation was possible (hence the committee), he noted that the move might help NASA compete with private spaceflight companies

NASA is exploring the feasibility of commercialising the agency's operations in low Earth orbit to lower its costs while its eyes turn toward the Moon and Mars, the media reported.
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has unveiled an "Advisory Council committee" that will explore some of these plans, which could include product endorsements from astronauts and even selling the naming rights to rockets and other spacecraft, the Engadget reported.
According to Mike Gold, head of the Committee, the committee would also consider scrapping "obsolete" regulations to let US astronauts support private activities aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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