NASA Sends University Payloads to Space

Part of the Agency's Flight Opportunities Program

NASA’s Flight Opportunities program sent two university payloads on suborbital flight tests onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on June 8 when it launched from Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

“Our program enables researchers to move from the lab to flight test rapidly, and in many cases, multiple flight tests across different commercial veh…