SAN FRANCISCO — The three-year NASA Authorization Act signed into law Oct. 11 by U.S. President Barack Obama offers the most significant indication to date of congressional support for the space agency’s plan to devote millions of dollars annually to commercial suborbital transportation projects, industry officials said.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...