Aug 102011
 

NASA Picks 7 Private Spaceships for Trips to Edge of Space

NASA yesterday announced the selection of seven companies to provide suborbital transport for experiments (basically, sounding rockets). They are:

  • Armadillo Aerospace, based in Heath, Texas
  • Near Space Corp., based in Tillamook, Ore.
  • Masten Space Systems, based in Mojave, Calif.
  • Up Aerospace Inc., based in Highlands Ranch, Colo.
  • Virgin Galactic, based in Mojave, Calif.
  • Whittinghill Aerospace LLC, based in Camarillo, Calif.
  • XCOR, based in Mojave, Calif.

Good the see the smaller companies getting in on the action. Let’s hope that they don’t get corrupted…

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