Parking

restricted to permit holders

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Previous NASA Administrator Mike Griffin has

publicly stated:

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“We could use commercial suborbital human transportation for early training of astronauts.

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. . . If I could buy a seat to suborbital flight for a few hundred thousand dollars. . . why wouldn’

Source: David. L, (2008) Private Suborbital Spaceships Could Aid NASA Science. Space.com (http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080910-tw-nasa-suborbitalships.html)

t we have all our new astronauts make their first flights in such a manner?”

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In addition, the ability to travel suborbitally and experience periods of near-zero or ‘microgravity’ will allow for a wide range of valuable scientific experiments to be carried out, which currently have to be performed using sounding rockets or at great cost, using the long duration space station or space shuttle. Microgravity science can help to address problems such as protein folding, instrumental in developing drugs to combat a host of diseases; as well as aiding research into new materials for transportation, computing and biomedicine.

The space launch system under development will allow more detailed, affordable and frequent microgravity science experiments to be carried out by humans rather than robots, potentially advancing several areas of science that have stagnated in the last few decades due to poor access to space.

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immediate right)

Partnering with NASA

US space policy has increasingly been looking to the emerging private sector to provide space launch services – initially for payload but potentially in the future for professional astronauts and scientists .

While not Virgin Galactic’s core market, given these trends in US policy, there may be future opportunities for NASA to purchase Virgin Galactic suborbital flights for professional astronaut training, science research and the testing and qualification of equipment designed to operate

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in space. This will allow NASA to achieve its aims more cheaply, effectively and with less environmental impact whilst enabling it to devote increased resources to non- commercial but vital exploration activities.

The Future

Virgin Galactic’s plan for suborbital space launch represents the first of many necessary steps if we are to reap the greater benefits that space has to offer. The next steps will require significant new private sector investment which we believe will be readily available if Virgin Galactic is a commercial success. It is clear from industries such as mobile telephony that once technologies are opened to private R&D and investment, that innovation and change can rapidly follow. This is where Virgin Galactic, as a private company, can really make a difference.

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We believe that the advent of cheap, on-demand small satellite launch vehicles, space-based solar power, space- based server farms, transcontinental passenger and freight travel via space and a range of other transformational applications are all achievable in a relatively short time frame. How short, will depend to a large degree on the early and visible success of Virgin Galactic and other similar cutting edge clean-tech space initiatives.

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