Sentences with phrase «run space taxi»

So if private companies can successfully run space taxi services to low - Earth orbit, what role is left for NASA?

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).