First Manned Commercial Suborbital Research Program Graduates Have Mission To Study Global Climate
Project PoSSUM, a non-profit suborbital research project devoted to the study of our upper atmosphere, announced Monday that it had graduated its first class of Scientist-Astronauts. The PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Qualification Program, designed by former NASA astronaut instructors and hosted by the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL provides its candidates with the skills required to effectively conduct research on commercial space vehicles as part of an international research campaign dedicated to the study of global climate.