Startup Signs NASA Agreement to Fly Mini Labs on Station | SpaceNews.com

By Debra Werner, SpaceNews, Posted 10/06/09

Link: http://www.spacenews.com/venture_space/startup-signs-nasa-agreement-fly-mini-...

Under a newly concluded agreement with NASA, the entrepreneurial space company NanoRacks, managed by Jeffrey Manber, is soliciting small university experiments and commercial research projects to fly aboard the international space station starting in mid-2010. NanoRacks, announced plans Sept. 21 to send experiments to the international space station for installation in a platform the company calls a CubeLab, which houses as many as 16 experiments in standard CubeSats, the miniature satellites and research boxes popular with university research teams.