Sentences with phrase «suborbital flights with»

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The Federal Aviation Administration and Space Florida, the state agency tasked with promoting interstellar tourism, predict suborbital flights alone could generate up to $ 1.6 billion in revenue during their first 10 years of operation.

For years Chakrabarti and his colleagues have been pursuing a middle way between the laboratory and orbit, using NASA funding to conduct low - cost test flights of these advanced optics technologies with small suborbital rockets and high - altitude balloons that reach the edge of outer space.

Virgin Galactic's suborbital tourism flights may not make it to the launchpad in time for this year's summer vacation, but there are plenty of places to commune with the cosmos from the comfort of Earth (and for less than $ 200,000).

«Anytime you do research and development, there's a cost associated with it,» says Ian Murphy, director of media relations for the X Prize Foundation, which rewarded the first private manned suborbital flight.

NASA has made a variety of flight and suborbital opportunities available to the astronomy community along with grants for data analysis and theoretical studies.