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[b]NASA Selects US Firms to Provide Commercial Suborbital Flight Services[/b] NASA's Flight Opportunities Program has selected four companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. The selection is part of NASA's continuing effort to foster a viable market for American commercial reusable suborbital platforms that allow testing of new space technologies within Earth's atmosphere. Through these new awards, selected companies will receive an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for integration and flight services, drawing from a pool of commercial space companies. The five-year contracts have a combined potential contract value of $45 million. The flights will carry a variety of payloads to help meet the agency's research and technology needs. The selected companies are: [list][*]Aerostar International (Raven Aerostar), Sioux Falls, South Dakota [*]Blue Origin Texas, LLC, Van Horn, Texas [*]Up Aerospace Inc., Littleton, Colorado [*]World View Enterprises, Inc., Tucson, Arizona[/list] NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is charged with maturing crosscutting technologies to flight readiness status for future space missions. The agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, manages the Flight Opportunities Program for STMD.
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