NASA Sets Commercial Space Stimulation Meeting at NASA HQ for February 16, 10 AM

Published in the Federal Register yesterday was a notice of meeting of the Commercial Space Committee to the NASA Advisory Council set for Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. EST at NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street, SW., Room 6H45, Washington. The meeting is open to interested persons.

The agenda for the meeting includes an overview of the intended objectives for the Commercial Space Committee and preliminary discussions on some of the topic areas that will be explored by the Committee in future meetings. These topic areas include but are not limited to exploring opportunities to stimulate and encourage commercial space as well as the progression of commercial capability to the ISS and to Low Earth Orbit/LEO.

The committee will explore opportunities for interagency collaboration on commercial space initiatives, and fostering commercialization on the International Space Station as a National Lab. [Hat tip to Fred McKee]