Why We Need NASA
Future Website Links: Detail some of the things that could be coming in the future
SpaceX: SpaceX is a private investing space company that has found its own involvement quite heavily with NASA in the recent years. A number of their rockets and other designs have been used, and look for their contributions to stay steady in the coming years for NASA. http://www.spacex.com/
Scaled Composites: Some of the most groundbreaking designs and ideas have been presented by this company, and the number of new projects they have going currently is absolutey astounding. Once again, another example of a company that will be looking for connections to NASA and hopefully involvement in a new realm of privatized space industry. http://www.scaled.com/
NASA Selects Commercial Space Partners for Collaborative Partnerships: NASA announced Tuesday the selection of four U.S. companies to collaborate with NASA through unfunded partnerships to develop new space capabilities available to the government and other customers. The partnerships build on the success of NASA's commercial spaceflight initiatives to leverage NASA experience and expertise into new capabilities. The Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities (CCSC) initiative is designed to advance private sector development of integrated space capabilities through access to NASA’s spaceflight resources and ensure emerging products or services are commercially available to government and non-government customers within approximately the next five years. https://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/december/nasa-selects-commercial-space-partners-for-collaborative-partnerships/#.
NASA's Strategic Goal for 2014: Slightly outdated, but still detailing the goals that NASA has for what it wants to accomplish in the coming years. An extremely long booklet, but interesting to look through and see some of the ambitious bars that NASA is setting for themselves.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/FY2014_NASA_SP_508c.pdf