Catching a ride with commerical space launchers
FEB 12, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024078
Nature News : Scientists are foreseeing unprecedented opportunities to send up research payloads on anything from a suborbital trip of a few minutes to a sojourn lasting several weeks on a commercial space station by using a new generation of commercial space launchers such as the Falcon 9."We have never had a capability like this in 50 years of human space exploration,” says planetary scientist Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.Stern is a former science chief for NASA and is helping to organize the first meeting dedicated to research opportunities in suborbital space, to be held on 18–20 February in Boulder.
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