Date: May 17, 2012 Source: (
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Last August, the agency announced it contracted with seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on suborbital commercial flights into space. NASA's Flight Opportunities Program enables the agency to draw from a pool of commercial space companies to deliver payload integration and flight services. The flights will carry a variety of payloads to help meet the agency's research and technology needs. Through these indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts, NASA intends to provide frequent flight opportunities for payloads on suborbital platforms. The selected companies include Armadillo Aerospace, Near Space Corp., Masten Space Systems, Up Aerospace Inc., Virgin Galactic, Whittinghill Aerospace LLC, and XCOR.
