In this way, today's space ambitions are being shaped by entrepreneurs and angel investors as much as by government space agencies. (spaceangels.com)
The internal CSA team managing this activity serves as the interface between scientists, engineers, and other government space agencies to ensure the successful delivery of this important payload. (sciencemag.org)
More importantly, the mission demonstrated that a private company could do what only government space agencies had done before: rendezvous with the space station, safely dock with it and return to Earth. (scientificamerican.com)