Space News by Jeff Foust — June 17, 2019
NASA will issue a formal call for proposals later this summer for cargo transportation services for its lunar Gateway, seeking to model that effort on the space station’s commercial cargo program.
NASA released a draft request for proposals (RFP) for its Gateway Logistics Services program June 14, seeking industry comment by July 10. The agency will also hold an industry day for the program at the Kennedy Space Center June 26 before releasing a final RFP later in the summer.
NASA plans to acquire services through the program for the transport of pressurized and unpressurized cargo to the lunar Gateway, and disposal of cargo from the Gateway, similar to the services it uses now to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station. It’s the latest part of an ongoing effort to maximize commercial services for the Artemis program, which seeks to land humans on the south pole of the moon by 2024 and establish a sustainable human presence at the moon by 2028.
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