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Suborbital Training on Starfighters

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
December 3, 2010
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SwRI researchers continue Starfighters suborbital space flight training aboard F-104 aircraft
“As part of their suborbital spaceflight training, Southwest Research Institute researchers and suborbital payload specialists Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. Dan Durda have continued their spaceflight training with a new series of jet fighter flights in F-104 aircraft operated by Starfighters Inc. at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. This new round of SwRI Starfighter flights and ground training took place Nov. 16.”

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