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NASA Taps 7 Commercial Firms For Suborbital Flights

Posted by samzenpus on from the space-outsourcing dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA this week picked seven commercial space companies to fly a manner of experiments on their suborbital aircraft. According to NASA the companies will split $10 million and get a two-year contract that will let NASA set up a pool of reusable suborbital systems that could help it test applications in everything from astrobiology to measuring the impact of a solar storm."

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  1. Re:what a joke.... by Gravatron · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't always need to get to orbit to do research. For example, take a look at sounding rockets and the science they do.

  2. Re:what a joke.... by downix · · Score: 3, Informative

    NASA does plenty of suborbital work for research purposes. You can read about it here:

    http://rscience.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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