NASA Buying Private Companies' Suborbital Rocket Flights 60
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FleaPlus writes "NASA is spending a total of $475,000, split between Masten Space Systems and John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace, for a series of seven test flights of the companies' reusable suborbital rockets over the next several months, going to altitudes as high as 25 miles. NASA's goal is to foster a more cost-effective and flexible way to conduct microgravity and upper-atmosphere research. Jeff Bezos's suborbital spaceflight company Blue Origin has also been making steady progress this year on their $3.7M contract to test pusher-escape system and composite pressure vessel technologies, which NASA is interested in for orbital spaceflight."
Re:This is good. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good For Space Tourism (Score:3, Funny)
I for one look forward to lighting a rocket under my butt and launching myself out of the atmosphere.
Puh-lease! It's infinitely more sophisticated than that - you cling to the side and they stick your hands on with gaffer tape.