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NASA Explores Virgin Territory
By Tom Shoop | Thursday, February 22, 2007  |  11:29 AM

NASA's getting serious about facilitating commercial space development. Yesterday, the agency announced a partnership between its Ames Research Center in California and Virgin Galactic, a subsidiary of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group. The two organizations will collaborate on developing new space suits, heat shields, hybrid rocket motors and hypersonic vehicles.


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