“This report is the result of a study into potential areas of public-private partnerships for space capability development that could meet NASA’s mission objectives as well as generate significant economic returns to the American economy. The study focused on 8 areas of space capability development that show positive indicators of private-sector interest and investment, new business formation, and alignment with NASA’s goals — thus making them strong candidates for economic stimulation with increased NASA partnerships . The term ‘public-private partnerships’ is used to represent a broad spectrum of partnership implementation methodologies and is not meant to convey a specific agreement mechanism or strategy”