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The 2017 Economic Impact Report prepared by NASA for their Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) awards found that for FY 2016, these programs created 2,412 jobs, $474 million in economic output, and $57.3 million in fiscal impact with an initial investment of $172.9 million. [27]
On Dec. 2 NASA formally announced funding for three companies planning to build, launch, and operate privately-owned space stations: Blue Origin ($130 million), Nanoracks ($160 million), and ...
On July 28, 2008, NASA gave money to Astrobotic for a concept study on "regolith moving methods". [9] The next year, Astrobotic began to receive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding from NASA totaling over US$795,000 to investigate prospecting for lunar resources, [10] which eventually led to a concept called Polar Excavator.
NASA terminated the COTS agreement with RpK in September 2007 after NASA warned RpK that it had failed to raise sufficient private funding by 31 July 2007 deadline, [17] [18] freeing up $175 million from the COTS budget to be awarded to another company or companies.
The agency is turning to private companies to build new alternatives. NASA plans to spend up to $400 million on commercial space stations. It's evaluating about a dozen proposals from companies.
NASA spin-off technologies are commercial products and services which have been developed with the help of NASA, through research and development contracts, such as Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or STTR awards, licensing of NASA patents, use of NASA facilities, technical assistance from NASA personnel, or data from NASA research.
While NASA's actually set to receive more funding than it did this year, and more than it did in 2014, compared to the overall U.S. budget NASA's share is kind of pocket change.
To implement the program, NASA awarded a series of competitive fixed-price contracts to private vendors starting in 2011. Operational contracts to fly astronauts were awarded in September 2014 to SpaceX and Boeing, and NASA expected each company to complete development and achieve crew rating in 2017. [1]