Коммерческие исследования в космосе

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Техасская фирма получила реальный результат по сальмонелле и начала новые исследования на Шаттле и МКС

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts128/090907science/

A vaccine to protect people against Salmonella, a deadly bacteria that often contaminates food processing operations, is headed for human testing following commercial development in zero gravity on the space shuttle and International Space Station.

Astrogenetix, the Austin, Texas based research company which funded the work, is in the process of applying to the Food and Drug Administration for human trials then, marketing of the space developed Salmonella drug.


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With the Salmonella results in hand, Astrogenetix is funding research specifically on STS-128 and future station missions to develop a vaccine for Mersa, a serious skin disease. The initial Mersa results are to be returned to Earth this week on board Discovery.

With the station nearing completion and designated as a National Laboratory, the agency may have finally mastered a winning strategy. That plan now includes multiple companies lining up to fly drug and other materials research efforts on the major new research hardware just carried to the ISS by Discovery.

Если повезет с результатами таких исследований, то шансы на продление МКС значительно вырастут.

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NASA to aid commercial RLV industry

NASA and the U.S. Air Force say they are developing a "technology roadmap" for a commercial reusable launch vehicle, or RLV, industry.
"NASA is committed to stimulating the emerging commercial reusable launch vehicle industry," said Lori Garver, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's deputy administrator. "There is a natural evolutionary path from today's emerging commercial suborbital RLV industry to growing and developing the capability to provide low-cost, frequent and reliable access to low Earth orbit."

Officials said the study will focus on identifying technologies and assessing their potential use to accelerate the development of commercial reusable launch vehicles that have improved reliability, availability, launch turn-around time, robustness and significantly lower costs than current launch systems.

NASA said the project will officially begin at the Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange, to be held in Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 26-29. NASA said it and Air Force Research Laboratory officials will meet with representatives of the commercial RLV industry to "explore and understand their long-range growth plans and the technology they could use to implement those plans successfully."

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/NASA_to_aid_commercial_RLV_industry_999.html