NASA authorizes another company to carry payloads into space

NASA adds Blue Origin to its list of companies authorized to send cargo into space. Photo from the @blueorigin Twitter page.

Blue Origin was recently added to the NASA list of companies that can carry technologies and perform experiments in zero-gravity environments, According to Engadget.

The company uses a special payload system that allows monitoring and carrying out of microgravity research on its New Shepherd suborbital vehicle.

For now, experiments will get around three minutes in microgravity. However, in the future Blue Origin hopes to send up manned flights where researchers can do hands-on experiments. Until then, the company offers benchtop development units that will be used to program experiments before being sent up. Alfred Bayle