In preparation for an experiment that he will carry out in space on a second suborbital flight next year, he put equipment that was monitoring his vital signs through their paces during the flight.
Additionally, he carried out training exercises to determine the spacecraft’s suitability for space astronomy observations.
“We had set up nine goals for the flight, and we got every one of the nine on the main attempt, so having a very decent outlook on that,” he said.
Stern stated that he is hopeful that SwRI will conduct “quite a number of suborbital research missions” in the coming years and may even conduct chartered missions that enable customers to view space while SwRI advances its own research objectives.
“I would be exceptionally astounded on the off chance that there weren’t Southwest Exploration individuals chipping away at the moon in the next few decades,” he said.