Things appear to be coming full-circle for commercial
spaceflight. Officials with NASA signed a memorandum of
understanding Tuesday with 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.
After over three years of litigation, Spacehab Inc. filed for a
formal dismissal with prejudice this week of all claims against
NASA, relating to losses incurred by the company as a result of the
2003 loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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