NASA charters suborbital research flights aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

NASA charters suborbital research flights aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo: Although Virgin Galactic is generally known as a space tourism company, it sees research experiments as a future mission segment and significant business opportunity. To this end, the company has signed a contract with NASA to provide up to three charter flights on its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.