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Article: NASA Announces Awards for Future Astrophysics Suborbital Flights.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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NASA has selected nine scientific teams to work on future high-altitude balloon and sounding rocket payloads. The selected proposals address a wide range of astrophysical mysteries from dark matter and cosmic-ray antiprotons to studies of galaxy clusters and supernova remnants.
"The suborbital research program is a very important part of astrophysics," said Jon A. Morse, director of the Astrophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We are very pleased to provide support for these selected projects, recommended through a highly competitive merit-based review process. The projects also contribute to NASA's broader ...