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Published online 19 September 2007 | Nature 449, 273 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449273a
News in Brief: Business
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Crash landing
Rocketplane Kistler, a company in Oklahoma City that hopes to put tourists into space, is on the verge of losing up to $207 million in government support. The company is one of two firms with which NASA has signed a Commercial Orbital Transportation Services agreement, which the space agency hopes will lead to alternative methods of flying cargo to the International Space Station (see [cite][journal]Nature[/journal] [volume]448[/volume], [pages]988–991[/pages]; [copyright]2007[/copyright][/cite]).
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