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Topic: Who should own commercial space hardware?
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SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 5553
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-17-2026 12:55 PM
   
Jon Kelvey, writing for Aerospace America, reached out to five experts and asked them: In light of the rapidly growing role of commercial space companies, who should own the hardware, both during missions and after? Can NASA ensure the reliability of spacecraft developed for services contracts in the same way it does for spacecraft it owns? Will private companies preserve history-making spacecraft in the same way NASA did with much of the Apollo hardware, transferring ownership to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum? Among those responding: - Charlie Bolden, former astronaut and NASA Administrator
- Mike Gold, president of commercial spaceflight company Redwire and former NASA associate administrator for policy and plans
- Christopher Johnson, senior director legal affairs and space law at the Secure World Foundation
- Geoff Nunn, adjunct curator of space history at The Museum of Flight
- Rachel Tillman, historian and founder of the Viking Mars Education and Preservation Project
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