Private Spaceflight Industry Drawing Private, NASA Capital, AviationNow.com

“NASA is already talking to Virgin and the others about using their vehicles for both microgravity experiments and astronaut training. And the agency’s interest in buying flights on the new vehicles extends beyond microgravity applications to using them for experiments in Earth’s upper atmosphere as an analog for the thin atmosphere of Mars.”

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