Feb 21, 2007

David Mould Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1400

Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif 650-604-3937/9000

RELEASE: 07-50

NASA PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON AGREEMENT WITH VIRGIN GALACTIC

MOFFET FIELD, Calif - NASA officials signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with a U S company, Virgin Galactic, LLC, to explore the potential for collaborations on the development of space suits, heat shields for spaceships, hybrid rocket motors and hypersonic vehicles capable of traveling five or more times the speed of sound

The memorandum is only a framework to explore potential collaborations It does not include training of NASA astronauts, an agreement to buy seats on a Virgin Galactic flight, or provision of technical advice by NASA to Virgin Galactic

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