NASA Seeks Funding to Send Scientists to Space Station

NASA wants to send scientists to the International Space Station on private missions, but it needs more money to do so.

The director of NASA's biological and physical sciences division told a National Academies committee this week that the agency wants to use private flights to send specialized researchers to the International Space Station, according to Space News.

Kundrot wants to bring scientists back into space. We want to use that to fly hyper-specialized scientists to do research that is very difficult for even the most trained astronauts to do.

The project is called commercially enabled rapid space science NASA wants to know how having scientists on the International Space Station would help each mission.

One of the biggest benefits to a program like this would be how quickly experts would be able to collect and analyze data, and how quickly tasks would be passed on to astronauts.

Scientists have to wait for astronauts to come back from the International Space Station and give them data and information. Space News says that putting scientists on the International Space Station will speed things up.

The program will cost less than the Pentagon spent on licensing fees for a single green camo pattern used on Afghan National Army uniforms, according to Kundrot.

That's also less than half of what it would cost to purchase a single ticket to the International Space Station.

They need to find the money.

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