Researchers get NASA grant for kite-surfing idea in space

June 15, 2015

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – NASA is giving $100,000 to aerospace engineering researchers in Daytona Beach to apply concepts from kite-surfing to a solar-powered project in space. A team of professors at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University got the grant to develop a communications platform that could stay stationary up to 60,000 feet above the Earth while running…