1. What statement best describes your interest in space? Please mark (or highlite with red font) all that apply to you
a. Supplier of space launch services or hardware/software
b. Supplier of ground processing or support services or hardware
c. Supplier of space based assets or services
d. Buyer/user of space services (e.g., biotech, material science, earth science)
e. Financier (Angel, VC, investment banking, etc.)
f. Media/entertainment representative
g. Other
2. Do you know about the NASA COTS program? (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services)
a. No or not much (if no skip to #7)
b. Have heard about it
c. Some knowledge
d. Very familiar
3. Did you or your organization apply for a NASA COTS award?
a. Yes
b. No
4. Do you think NASA should offer other COTS type programs?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Don’t know
5. Do you have any ideas for future NASA COTS type programs? If yes please briefly describe.
Purchase of space cargo services, not another development program.
6. Do you think the NASA COTS program could be improved? If so how?
Purchase of space cargo services, not another development program.
7. What do you see as the biggest barrier/obstacle to commercial space?
The government does not express its requirements as a customer, but rather as a system integrator.
8. What do you think is the most important thing that NASA could do to support and promote commercial space?
Buy goods and services under FAR Part 12, rather than select contractors for development contracts.
9 Any other comments or suggestions regarding commercial space?
Make ISS resources clearly available for commercial users and suppliers, since the government science program has been largely abandoned for the moment – let private industry perform science utilization of ISS.
10. Name and contact information for follow-up (optional):
Name: David Anderman
Organization: Constellation Services Int’l