Space Exploration to Benefit Humanity: NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program
- Paper number
IAC-05-E5.4.05
- Author
Dr. Frank Schowengerdt, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Headquarters, United States
- Year
2005
- Abstract
Human space exploration has tremendous potential for bringing the nations of the world together in a peaceful pursuit that can inspire new generations of explorers and lift our spirits above our earthly conflicts. But to do that it must be seen by the public as affordable in the face of the many demands on their tax dollars. And to sustain interest in and support for it through the decades it must result in tangible benefits here on Earth. These two goals, affordability and sustainability, are at the heart of NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP). The program consists of the following five elements: Technology Transfer, Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR), Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), industry-led partnerships and university-led partnerships, the latter including the Research Partnership Centers (RPCs) and the University Research Engineering and Technology Institutes (URETIs). While their approaches differ, the overarching goals of all these elements working together are 1) to make space exploration more affordable through partnerships with industry and academia and 2) to make the exploration vision more sustainable by creating benefits to the public. Each of the program elements and the way they work together to achieve these goals will be described in detail at the conference.
- Abstract document
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