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NASA Finalizes Spaceship Deal With Virgin Galactic

 

 

NASA Finalizes $4.5 Million Private Spaceship Deal With Virgin Galactic

 

November 17, 2011 -Virgin Galactic has been selected to provide U.S.-based NASA with up to three charter flights on SpaceShipTwo, under a contract with a value of up to $4.5m.

SpaceShipTwoThe new, private, space travel program is expected to provide opportunities for engineers, technologists and scientists to conduct cutting-edge experiments in suborbital space. These research flights are regarded as an important milestone for Virgin Galactic, who have recently announced the appointment of Mike Moses, who is NASA's former Space Shuttle Program Chief, as Vice-President of Operations.

"We are excited to be working with NASA to provide the research community with this opportunity to carry out experiments in space," stated George Whitesides, President and CEO of Virgin Galactic.

"An enormous range of disciplines can benefit from access to space, but historically, such research opportunities have been rare and expensive. At Virgin Galactic, we are fully dedicated to revolutionizing access to space, both for tourist astronauts and, through programs like this, for researchers," he added.

Generally referred to as a space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, according to a release from the company, has already collected more than $58 million in deposits from 455 future tourist astronauts, providing researchers access to space. Their experiments are viewed by Virgin Galactic as both a future mission segment and a significant business opportunity. Each mission allows for up to 1,300 lbs of scientific experiments, which could enable up to 600 experimental payloads per flight.

Virgin Galactic will provide a Flight Test Engineer on every flight to monitor and interact with experiments as necessary, a capability that has never before been available on suborbital vehicles. If requested, these experiments can be quickly accessed after landing, a feature critical to many types of experiments.

 

WhiteKnightTwo with SpaceShipTwo


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About Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic, owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Aabar Investments PJS, is on track to be the world’s first commercial spaceline. The new spaceship (SpaceshipTwo, VSS Enterprise) and carrier craft (WhiteKnightTwo, VMS Eve) have both been developed for Virgin Galactic by Mojave-based Scaled Composites. Founded by Burt Rutan, Scaled developed SpaceShipOne, which in 2004 claimed the $10m Ansari X Prize as the world’s first privately developed manned spacecraft. Virgin Galactic’s new vehicles share much of the same basic design, but are being built to carry six customers on sub-orbital space flights, allowing an out-of-the-seat, zero-gravity experience and offering astounding views of the planet from the black sky of space. The VSS Enterprise and VMS Eve test flight program is well under way, leading to Virgin Galactic commercial operations, which will be based at Spaceport America in New Mexico.

 

 

 

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