Rocketplane Kistler and Alenia Spazio team up for COTS

Rocketplane Kistler announced late last week that it has teamed up with Alenia Spazio North America to work on cargo containers that could be used on commercial ISS resupply missions. (The Rocketplane press release about the agreement is not on either the Rocketplane or Kistler Aerospace; free registration is required to read the article in The Oklahoman about the deal.) The agreement covers the development of pressurized cargo containers, and not passenger modules, that would be used for commercial ISS flights as part of the NASA COTS effort.