NASA Needs Interface Standards To Meet Its Goals.

The article focuses on the plan of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) to make the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) available for future commercial space stations. Topics covered include the issuance by NASA of a request for information (RFI ) for the plan, how a commercial module could advance its efforts to hand off low Earth orbit (LEO) to the private sector, and the hope of NASA of a broader partnership on the controlled assembly of the International Space Station (ISS).