Filed in archive Point of view by ehsan on December 18, 2006

Christopher Sciacca has a nice post on NASA's current plans to outsource the shipments of water, food and clean clothes to the spaceships. In his blog, Who said supply chains are boring?, he brings a nice example:

Can you imagine this scenario, "Hi, this is Captain Smith of the International Space Station, we are running low on water and I was wondering were package #47382749273892 is in route"? Operator, "Hello, Captain Smith, that package is just passing the Ozone layer and should be docking at 15:00."

Who knows...maybe 20 years from now FedEx and DHL establish their own space 3PL service. What do you think?

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