NASA's Plan For Commercializing Low Earth Orbit Is Still A Mystery

It is quite obvious that no one in this room - #NASA, @ISS_CASIS, NAS, industry really has a clue what commercial LEO will look like

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016

Funny to listen to #NASA civil servants who have never had real private sector (non-NASA) jobs profess to be experts on commerce

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016

Scimemi says government is paying for everything on ISS. He wants to move away from 100% to something else but does not know what that % is

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016

Scimemi says Gerst will kill him if he says this -"if we do not reach this vision fully that's OK"

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016

Scimemi: to transition from gov't to private sector that #NASA will subsidize them to make sure gov't needs are met

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016

Scimemi says #NASA has some kind of internal pan how to transition from gov't run program to commercial one for ISS. OK NASA, release it

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016

Scimemi: Instead of aspecific end date we will have "indicators" as to when we stop using ISS i.e. is all exploraiton stuff completed

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016

To reiterate: Sam Scimemi says that 2024 is not the end date for #NASA use of ISS and that it will be extended based on task completion

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016

Now commercial guys are trying to explaining what "anchor tenant" means in the real world. Oh course, #NASA is not operating in real world

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016

Scimemi is now word smithing since #NASA is" trying to stay away from words that imply that NASA is going to be paying" for all of this

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) March 30, 2016