NASA intends to sign yearlong space act agreements with multiple firms looking to mature technologies in support of the White House's commercial space trans-portation initiative by spring 2011, the agency said Oct. 1.rn"Through this activity, NASA may be able to spur economic growth as capabilities for new space markets are created and reduce the gap in U.S. human spaceflight capability" when the space Shuttle retires next year, NASA said on its procurement Website.
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