For the second time this year NASA is asking scientists to ponder how they could advance humanity's understanding of the heavens and the Earth by flying experiments aboard one of the reusable suborbital spaceships now in development, by Virgin Galactic and others.rnNASA put out its first call for ideas earlier this year, but did not get much of a response. This lime around the U.S. space agency has sweetened the deal by offering to pay a total of $400,000 for as many as eight one-year studies. The call for proposals was made July 10 as an amendment to NASA's annual Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences omnibus so-rnlicitation. Notices of intent to propose are due Aug. 6. Proposals are due Oct. 8.
展开▼
