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NASA JSC Advanced Planning Office Blog: Pass the Baton or Short Track Speed Skater Push, NASA Blogs
"Therefore for me it is not a question of how do we handoff the responsibility of access to Low Earth Orbit to commercial space but how do we ensure that the commercial space community reaches a speed close to what NASA has obtained over the past 50 years so that NASA can push them off to continue the race? How do we set up the transition so that in the event that commercial space should fall, NASA can tag the fallen and temporarily continue the race? Yes I know, with the completion of the Shuttle program the push off is more of a challenge yet not impossible."
Hesitation or Common Sense From Inside JSC?
There's something wrong with this article. The experience that NASA has resides in the people who have worked and do still work within NASA. The individual skills are portable. Whatever work is transferred to the private sector will be in the form of the people who have the skills. The article also seems to overlook the skills and processes that have been honed by the contractors that have built the spacecraft that NASA has used for decades. The article makes it sound like the wise old sage will be handing over the reigns to the young grasshoppuh, but I feel it is more accurate to say that the wise old sage can also choose to hand the reigns to the other wise old sages. Once again: NASA doesn't build spacecraft and launch vehicles.
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I read 'acceptance'.
NASA should offer up systems engineers and expertise to the commercial vendors on an as needed basis.
From what I know of SpaceX, they probably do not need a lot of help. They've hired a few former NASA people and they've hired a lot of smart people who have been studying how to do space. So I suspect they do not need a lot of help. Likewise for Boeing, Lockheed, ULA, and many of the others.
Expertise from the Shuttle support people would be most likely the most applicable. I suspect most of the ISS support base would not be able to contribute too much for an earth-to-orbit capability.