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The NASA-sponsored Space Station Conference That NASA Is Not Talking About

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 29, 2019
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The NASA-sponsored Space Station Conference That NASA Is Not Talking About

Keith’s note: The CASIS-sponsored International Space Station Research And Development Conference is underway in Atlanta. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is speaking at ISSRDC on Wednesday. NASA has not issued any media advisories about Bridenstine’s appearance or the conference in general but CASIS did last week.
You’d think that NASA would want people to know that this event is going on. Guess again. If you go to @Space_Station with its 2.7 million followers there has been no mention whatsoever. Nor has there been any mention by @NASA with its 32 million followers. No mention at NASA.gov, or at NASA TV, or at the NASA HQ ISS page.
A few weeks ago NASA went up to New York and did a big thing on Wall Street to promote NASA’s plans to open up the ISS to more commercial uses. CASIS was invisible at that event and is not mentioned in any of NASA’s new ISS commerce plans. Now NASA is going out of its way to dial back promotion of this ISSRDC event – even though there is a NASA logo all over everything.
If NASA was actually interested in the commercial potential of the ISS then you’d think that they’d use every opportunity to promote the potential of the ISS. But they don’t. Why?

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3 responses to “The NASA-sponsored Space Station Conference That NASA Is Not Talking About”

  1. chuckc192000 says:
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    Maybe they can talk about how they allowed a payload of “essential oils” from the pyramid company “Young Living” to be launched to the space station, just so they can brag that they have a partnership with NASA in their advertising.

  2. Nick K says:
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    Having participated in the ISS R&D Conference I think it is mainly aimed at the internal audience which really leads one to wonder why it is held at all. NASA would do better to talk to OTHER industries about the potential for space research and what it takes to ‘get on-board’. From what I’ve seen few other industries know about this conference (or care). NASA is focused a little too much on glad-handing one another about all that wonderful science they are doing, when in fact few serious findings or ground-breaking research has been shown given 20 years of science so far. There is a lot of potential on the ISS but it is not being used. and telling one another ‘we’re doing wonderful work’ really does not help. They need to be telling others.

  3. chuckc192000 says:
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    Because the precious resource of using the ISS should be reserved for actual research projects, not publicity stunts.