{"id":245162,"date":"2026-10-10T05:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nasa-issues-long-awaited-call-to-industry-for-private-space-stations"},"modified":"2026-10-10T05:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:04:25","slug":"nasa-issues-long-awaited-call-to-industry-for-private-space-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nasa-issues-long-awaited-call-to-industry-for-private-space-stations","title":{"rendered":"NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-issues-long-awaited-call-to-industry-for-private-space-stations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s solicitation <a href=\"https:\/\/sam.gov\/workspace\/contract\/opp\/aee4374189ab4118b3ec0dcb00ae8408\/view\">can be found here<\/a>. Industry responses are due back to NASA on December 8. NASA said it plans to select \u201ctwo or more\u201d contractors in this phase of the competition, and intends to make a final decision in April.<\/p>\n<p><b>In LEO to stay<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit,\u201d NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-seeks-us-industry-plans-for-commercial-space-stations\/\">in a statement<\/a> that accompanied the release of the new documents. \u201cWe will continue to need a place to conduct research, develop technologies, train crews, and prepare for missions to the Moon and Mars. Commercial space stations may provide that capability while creating new opportunities for American industry and allowing NASA to concentrate more of our resources on the near-impossible missions ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s solicitation can be found here. Industry responses are due back to NASA on December 8. NASA said it plans to select \u201ctwo or more\u201d contractors in this phase of the competition, and intends to make a final decision in April. In LEO to stay \u201cWe\u2019ve made it clear that NASA will never give up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}