The new Galactic Unite initiative encourages students to become space entrepreneurs. Next up for Branson? Exploring not just space, but the world's oceans.
Virgin Unite, the nonprofit arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, announced Wednesday the formation of Galactic Unite, which will be aimed at encouraging students to pursue careers in space exploration and aviation. Galactic Unite, a partnership with Branson's commercial spaceliner company
Virgin Galactic, will be working with NASA's
Student Launch Program, a competition in which middle school students design experiments using the
environment of suborbital space to answer scientific and engineering questions. The winning experiments will be sent into space on rockets provided by the
New Mexico Space Grant Consortium from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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