NASA plans to spend $1.6 bn on space taxis

September 20, 2011 12:18

NASA has plans to spend a whopping US dollars 1.6 billion over the next two years in a bid to bolster industry efforts to develop "space taxis". The US space agency will be looking for complete systems - launchers, spaceships, mission operations and ground support - to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station by the middle of the decade. The money will supplement investments that privatefirms are making to develop commercial space transportation services.

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