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[b]NASA Administrator announces commercial cargo milestone[/b] NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Thursday (Aug. 23) new milestones in the nation's commercial space initiatives from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The latest advances made by NASA's commercial space partner paves the way for the first contracted cargo flight to the International Space Station (ISS) this fall. Bolden announced Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has completed its Space Act Agreement with NASA for Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). SpaceX is scheduled to launch the first of its 12 contracted cargo flights to the space station from Cape Canaveral in October, under the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) Program. "We're working to open a new frontier for commercial opportunities in space and create job opportunities right here in Florida and across the United States," Bolden said. "And we're working to in-source the work that is currently being done elsewhere and bring it right back here to the U.S. where it belongs." Through the COTS program, NASA provides investments to stimulate the American commercial space industry. SpaceX became the first commercial company to resupply the station in May, successfully launching its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting complex. During the historic mission, the Dragon was captured by astronauts using the station's robot arm, unloaded and safely returned to Earth carrying experiments conducted aboard ISS.
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