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NASA has announced its partnership with seven US companies to meet future commercial and government needs, which will ultimately benefit human spaceflight and the US commercial low Earth orbit economy. The second Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities-2 initiative (CCSC-2) is designed to advance commercial space-related efforts through NASA contributions of technical expertise, assessments, lessons learned, technologies, and data. The companies selected for the Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities-2 are Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Sierra Space Corporation, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, Special Aerospace Services, ThinkOrbital Inc., and Vast Space LLC. Each party bears the cost of its participation through the agreements. NASA’s support for a robust low Earth orbit economy is intended to boost education and job growth in science and engineering, and to spur economic growth through the creation of new space markets.