NASA has reorganized the management of its own manned flight program, creating two divisions instead of the current one, TASS reports, referring to the statement of the head of the American space Agency Bill Nelson.
Now the functions of the Manned Flight Directorate, headed by Katie Leaders, will be shared by the Space Operations Directorate, which deals with the International Space Station (ISS) and the commercialization of activities in near-Earth orbit, as well as the Research Systems Development Directorate, which will focus on future missions to the Moon and Mars.
The Directorate of Space Operations will be headed by Leaders. The Research Systems Development Directorate is Jim Free, who, according to ArsTechnica, has experience working with Lockheed Martin and Boeing corporations. The publication notes that it was under the leadership of SpaceX that the company began to perform manned flights to the ISS.
In September, the general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the American company SpaceX, headed by Elon Musk, was squeezing the state corporation's enterprises from the international space services market, as a result of which the latter could hardly cooperate with the first.
Ivan Potapov
