When the Orbital ATK rocket exploded on the launchpad in Virginia two years ago, the cargo scattered into the ocean. Some of it washed back up on shore, damaged or completely wrecked, but there was an exception. Though scuffed and dented, the metal box known as a NanoLab was sound enough to potentially send back into space.
The NanoLab now rests in the D.C. headquarters of NanoRacks, the District and Texas-based firm that builds them. NanoRacks is built around offering a lower cost access to space for all kinds of companies and organizations via equipment like NanoLabs, which carry experiments and other equipment to the International Space Station, small, cheap cube satellites and connections between private space companies and groups looking for a way to get connected with the space industry.
Check out the offices where NanoRacks makes it all happen.
