Transformational Space Corp and PlanetSpace received a promise for continued consultations, advise, and feedback from NASA regarding their development of spacecraft capable of delivering cargo and crew to the International Space Station. The promise stems for the COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) competition previously sponsored by NASA. SpaceX and Rocketplane Kistler were awarded $500 million from that competition in order to pursue their own designs for spacecraft. The COTS competition will be re-opened in 2010, which may give Transformational Space Corp (t/Space) and PlanetSpace a chance to get contracts for re-supplying the space station. It is estimated that those contracts will be lucrative to the tune of several billion dollars.

Located in Reston, VA the Transformational Space Corporation, LLC (t/space) is a private company seeking to lower the costs of space travel, low orbit flights, lunar development, and sending cargo into space. Their website indicates that funding primarily comes from NASA grants. Most recently, the company was a finalist in the $500 million in NASA program to create low-cost cargo and passenger vehicles under the agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration program.