Commercial Spaceflight Federation Welcomes Historic NASA Commitment

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$75 Million Pledged For Commercial Suborbital Flights, Payloads

 

The Commercial Spaceflight Federation enthusiastically welcomed NASA's announcement Thursday that the agency will fund dozens of science and education payloads to fly on commercial suborbital vehicles built by companies including Armadillo Aerospace, Blue Origin, Masten Space Systems, Virgin Galactic, and XCOR Aerospace.  At the first annual Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced in her keynote speech today that President Obama's Fiscal Year 2011 budget request for NASA commits $75 million in funding over five years for the new Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research program (CRuSR).