NASA reorganized the management of its own program of manned flights, creating two two divisions instead of the current unit, TASS reports, referring to the statement of the head of the American Space Agency Bill Nelson.
Now the functions of the Directorate of the pilot flights, headed by Katie Liders, will share the Directorate of Cosmic Operations, dealing with the issues of the International Space Station (ISS) and the commercialization of activities at the near-Earth orbit, as well as the Directorate of the Development of Research Systems, which will focus on future missions on the Moon and Mars.
The Directorate of Space Operations will be headed by the leaders. Research System Development Directorate – Jim Fri, who, according to Asstechnica, has the experience of interaction with Lockheed Martin and Boeing corporations. The publication notes that it was with the leaders that Spacex began to perform piloted flights to the ISS.
In September, the general director of Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the American company Spacex headed by Ilonoma Mask squeezes enterprises from the International Space Services Market, as a result of which the second with the first could hardly cooperate.