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Private rockets like SpaceShipTwo will offer space-based science on the cheap

Powered flight tests are slated later this year for SpaceShipTwo, a craft built to carry humans on brief excursions more than 100 kilometers into space. And although publicity indicates that these travelers will be rich thrill-seeking "space tourists", some of them are, in fact, going to be scientists, engineers, and probably even graduate students on funded research programs, according to S. Alan Stern, a scientist now spearheading the development of this new concept.

SpaceShipTwo is the descendant of SpaceShipOne, the X-Prize–winning craftdesigned by Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites. Now funded by Virgin Galactic, the space company owned by British aviation mogul Sir Richard Branson, the new vehicle was geared to wealthy adventurers ¬willing to pay US $200 000 for a ride into space.

But an entirely new category of passengers has recently emerged. These space commuters would use the flights to expand on research that has been performed since the 1950s aboard unmanned sounding rockets. The combination of the advantages a human experimenter has over a robotic one and the competitive cost of a ticket on SpaceShipTwo make such research flights an attractive idea

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