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About Flight Opportunities

Flight Opportunities rapidly demonstrates promising technologies for space exploration, discovery, and the expansion of space commerce through suborbital and hosted orbital testing with industry flight providers. The program matures capabilities needed for NASA missions and commercial applications while strategically investing in the growth of the U.S. commercial space industry.

These flight tests are an extension of ground-based laboratories, taking technologies into relevant environments to increase technology readiness and validate feasibility while reducing the costs and technical risks of future missions.

Awards and agreements for flight test are open to researchers from industry, academia, non-profit research institutes, and government organizations. These investments help advance technologies of interest to NASA while supporting commercial flight providers and expanding space-based applications and commerce.

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Program Manager

Danielle McCulloch

Deputy Program manager

Greg Peters

Program EXECUTIVE

Christopher Baker

Deputy Program Executive

Justin Treptow