Suborbital science gets boost

More than 250 researchers, space industry entrepreneurs and NASA officials gathered today at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in Boulder, Colo., to give a boost to the concept of doing research on private-sector spaceships.

The concept got a boost, all right: Over the next five years, more than $75 million could be committed for spending on suborbital space research.

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