NASA Outlines Flagship Tech Demonstrations

By Frank Morring, Jr.

The latest in a series of requests for information (RFIs) from NASA under its proposed Fiscal 2011 budget lists six “flagship” space testbeds costing $400 million to $1 billion each that would push technologies needed for exploration beyond low Earth orbit.

The first would be launched by 2014, with three more to go by 2016 and one every 12 to 18 months after that ...

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