Nelson said the shake-up was also spurred by a recent proliferation of flights and commercial investment in low-Earth orbit even as NASA steps up its development of deep-space aspirations. The reorganization, announced by NASA chief Bill Nelson on Tuesday, reflects an evolving relationship between private companies, such as SpaceX, that have increasingly commercialized rocket travel and the federal agency that had exercised a U.S. NASA is splitting its human spaceflight department into two separate bodies - one centred on big, future-oriented missions to the moon and Mars, the other on the International Space Station and other operations closer to Earth.
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