Emerging Opportunities in Microgravity and Partial Gravity

ESA and JAXA Present ISS Utilization Plans to NRC Committee, SpacePolicyOnline.com

"The Decadal Survey's task is to identify and prioritize fundamental and applied research to be conducted in microgravity and partial gravity.   Determining what facilities are available for that research is an important component of the study.   The steering committee heard from Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute, and Erika Wagner, MIT, on new and emerging launch companies that are marketing suborbital flights for scientific research and education.  The companies include Virgin Galactic, Blue Origins, Armadillo Aerospace, XCOR, and Masten Space Systems."