NASA Commercial Space Partners Complete Milestones

The two companies that receive NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services funds, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Rocketplane Kistler, achieved milestones today. Space X created a design review for its first orbital demonstration mission while Rocektplane Kistler completed a system requirements review for its cargo services system. These two milestones show a lot of progress toward a new way of doing business for NASA. These also pave the way for the commercial purchase of transportation services that NASA needs to maintain the International Space Station.