Cobra-Puma Partners With NASA Group For Innovation

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Royston says CASIS is now moving beyond the startup phase. Just last week, it issued its first call for research proposals.

 

And the agreement with Cobra Puma Golf shows that CASIS can interest companies that make everyday consumer products, says Bobby Block, a CASIS spokesman.

 

A lot of advanced materials are already used in golf balls and clubs, he says.

 

"Most of them are made from materials that actually come from the aerospace industry," he says.

 

Block says Cobra Puma Golf "wanted to take an active role and get closer to research to kind of push the materials and see how space could develop them further."

 

Alan Stern, a planetary scientist and former NASA official who recently became a scientific adviser for CASIS, says people need to give this new organization a fair chance.

 

"CASIS has to succeed, because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program," he says.

 

Stern recently wrote a commentary defending CASIS from critics who want it replaced with some other organization. Stern says if NASA pulled the plug on CASIS, it would waste precious time that would be better spent bringing new research to the International Space Station.

 

 

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/03/156160636/fledgling-nasa-nonprofit-starts-to-liftoff

 

 

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