Learn how NASA privatised space with this brilliant animation from VICE

VICE News take an in-depth look into how NASA and private companies like Space X have perfected the method of fusing governmental and corporate space exploration together to push the industry further into the future.

The accompanying video was animated by New York-based animator Joel Plosz, and features his trademark blocky and colourful style, which adds a huge slice of fun to proceedings whilst visually illustrating the points of the article.

The video acts as a short history lesson of how NASA came to involve private companies in its projects when their own funding or expertise ran short, and features snippets from Dennis Stone, the Project Executive of the Commercial Space Capabilities Office, providing NASA’s expertise to the commercial space industry.

Building from the slump in NASA’s public image and actual functionality in the early years of this century after events such as the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, the video shows how by working with commercial businesses NASA is back on the map as the world-leader in space technology and exploration.

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