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Editorial: A Little Caution Doesn’t Hurt

NASA is getting pressure from backers of the nascent suborbital tourism industry to commit to flying scientific experiments aboard vehicles being developed to carry paying passengers to the edge of space. Industry advocates warn that the
U.S.
space agency risks missing early flight opportunities by not funding experiments now so as to have them ready to fly when vehicles such as Virgin Galactic’s planned SpaceShipTwo begin commercial operations within the next few years.