NASA, Virgin Galactic to Explore Future cooperation

NASA, Virgin Galactic to Explore Future cooperation

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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - NASA officials signed a memorandum of understanding
Tuesday with a U.S. company, Virgin Galactic, LLC, to explore the potential for collaborations
on the development of space suits, heat shields for spaceships, hybrid rocket motors
and hypersonic vehicles capable of traveling five or more times the speed of sound.

Under the terms of the memorandum, NASA Ames Research Center, located in
California's Silicon Valley, and Virgin Galactic LLC, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Sir Richard
Branson's Virgin Group, will explore possible collaborations in several technical areas employing
capabilities and facilities of NASA's Ames Research Center.

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02.21.07 - NASA, Virgin Galactic, to Explore Future Cooperation

NASA officials signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with a
U.S. company, Virgin Galactic, LLC, to explore the potential for
collaborations on the development of space suits, heat shields for
spaceships, hybrid rocket motors and hypersonic vehicles capable of
traveling five or more times the speed of sound.

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"This understanding with Virgin Galactic affords NASA an opportunity to
work with an emerging company in the commercial human space
transportation industry to support the agency's exploration, science
and aeronautics mission goals", said S. Pete Worden, director of NASA
Ames Research Center. "Our location in California's Silicon Valley
provides a dynamic research and development platform for future
potential collaborations with other such companies in support of a
robust commercial space industry."

"We are excited to be working with NASA and look forward to future
collaborations in exploration and space travel," said Alex Tai,
vice president of operations for Virgin Galactic.

The agreement with Virgin Galactic was negotiated through NASA�s
Space Portal, a newly formed organization in the NASA Research Park
at Ames, which seeks to engage new opportunities for NASA to promote
the development of the commercial space economy.

"This new type of private-public partnership can benefit the agency
while helping to foster a new industry," said Dan Coughlin, NASA's
lead for the Virgin Galactic agreement.


The memorandum of understanding will be in effect for two years and
stipulates that neither NASA nor Virgin Galactic will be required to
pay any fees or provide funds to support the areas of possible
collaboration.


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