NASA rocket may get your name, if you pay enough

New Delhi : In an attempt to explore the commercial support, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has set up an advisory council committee that will look after the plans of product endorsements from astronauts and selling the rocking naming rights and other spacecrafts as well. Meaning, people with big fund can expect to see their chosen name in the NASA rocket.

"The committee would also consider scrapping ‘obsolete' regulations to let US astronauts support private activities aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Companies should not have to turn to Russian cosmonauts for private operations" said Mike Gold, head of the Committee.

Gold also said that the possibilities could include having NASA receive compensation when commercial space companies sell spots on spacecraft heading for the ISS, and leveraging those funds for access or services on future private-sector space stations.

Lately, the US President Donald Trump had criticized about NASA expenses even as his administration made the sharpest cuts in government funding of space agency in years.

Coming to Indian Space Research Organisation (NASA), India's ISRO is also taking initiatives towards creating opportunities for private sectors in space exploration. If media reports are to believe than it will also be handing over development and manufacturing of small rockets, PSLV rockets and satellites to private players by 2020.