NASA faces challenges with other space agency, to prove why they are best?

Private players like Elon Musk’s-Space X, Richard Branson-Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’-Blue Origin are working to open space for the common people.

NASA faces challenges with other space agency, to prove why they are best?
NASA after sending its first human to space in Apollo 8 aircraft in 1968 is facing the challenges with the private players. (Image Credit: Twitter)

Space industry from the past decade is seeing a changeable element in their sector. An industry which was known for its complications of science and technology has driven to the race of acquiring money gains. A new term space business has been used instead of the satellite industry.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) an American space agency founded in 1958 for aerospace research has now faced challenges with different governmental and non-governmental organisation.

Private players like Elon Musk's-Space X, Richard Branson-Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos'-Blue Origin are working to open space for the common people. Musk a step further have announced its first 'Tourist' for its space business plan. The Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is the first customer of Space-X.

NASA after sending its first human to space in Apollo 8 aircraft in 1968 is facing the challenges with the private players. Without a second doubt, NASA is the biggest and most qualified space agency as compared with other governmental and non-governmental space agency. NASA with its 60-year experience has trained many scientists and engineers in its space program. It has also helped different countries to launch their ambitious space program.

But that was the matter of past now NASA got the competition from other counterparts. Be it India's space agency; Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Japan's space agency; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) or Chinese space agency; China National Space Administration (CNSA).

NASA which has the budget about five times larger than the next space agency looms its cost extensive projects. Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight at NASA, advocated public-private partnerships. Private companies offer the advantages of "being quick, being nimble, being fast, making a decision maybe without perfect knowledge — then moving forward and adjusting as required," McAlister told Space.com.

NASA which is the founding father of many space agency has to deal with the private players and other governmental organization to prove why it is the best in the space sector.

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