Nano Space Labs may send projects to the ISS at low costs, starting from $25,000.
Nano Space Labs estimates that, by this fall, it will launch a program aimed to encourage Romanian students to enter the competition.
According to Prunariu, Romanian students, professors and private research entities are offered the unique opportunity to test and develop projects in a laboratory available until now only for a few such projects.
Prunariu said he will try to attract financing from Romanian private investors.
NanoRacks representative Jeffrey Manber said the company has sent into space projects from 28 schools in the United States during a year.
NanoRacks, set up by Manber in 2009, developed a research center currently operating as part of the U.S. National Laboratory on the ISS. One of the company’s clients is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).