NASA, Virgin Galactic to Explore Future cooperation

NASA officials have signed a MOU or an memorandum of understanding with Virgin Galactic, a subsidiary of Virgin group, which operates Virgin Atlantic. Virgin Galactic is in the process of creating a space tourism program, they already have tourists signed up. The memorandum allows for the two companies to collaborate on the development for space suits, heat shields, and hybrid rocket motors and even hypersonic vehicles that are capable of traveling 5 times the speed of sound! The memorandum is only an agreement to look at potential collaborations.