Douglas Maclise, NASA Ames
Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR)
NASA’s commitment – $15 per year/5 years = $75 million
CRuSR will:
- purchase flights from commercial suborbital providers
- develop basic technology and equipment
- fly automated experiment for the initial years until the commercial industry can prove sufficient reliability to fly researchers
- NOT Â fund research except in a very few circumstances (although other parts of NASA may fund projects)
NASA commitment will help to jump-start what will be a large suborbital research industry
Unprecedented capability to explore the “ignorosphere” – region of the atmosphere that rockets zip through
Instruments will be attached to the exterior of vehicles to gather atmospheric data
Enormous opportunity to researchers to fly often – can take greater risks on technology development than they can now.
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