Two SuborbitalCompanies Sell Tourist Seats For Science

Credit: OnOrbit.com
A trio of scientists from the Southwest Research Institute will be making suborbital rocketplane flights—some of them into space—under the first set of commercial space tourism flights purchased for scientific research. The Texas-based institute has bought seats on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and...

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