Posted on 10/10/2005 7:00:41 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Oct. 10, 2005 — The fledging personal spaceflight industry got a boost from a seasoned partner on Sunday as NASA pledged funding for another round of private suborbital space ventures during an exhibition focused on passenger spaceships for non-astronauts.
As part of its Centennial Challenges program, which awards teams cash prizes for specified technology demonstrations, the U.S. space agency announced two new contests, tentatively called the Suborbital Payload Challenge and the Suborbital Lunar Landing Analog Challenge.
Details and the amount of the award prizes have not yet been determined.
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