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Article: NASA Announces Awards for Future Astrophysics Suborbital Flights

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September 23, 2009
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Contact: J.D. Harrington, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358- 5241, j.d.harrington@nasa.gov, or Keith Koehler, Wallops Flight Facility, Va., +1-757-824-1579, keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov, both of NASA

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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.

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"The suborbital research program is a very important part of astrophysics," said Jon ...

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