XCOR Announcement March 26, 2008, XCOR AEROSPACE SUBORBITAL VEHICLE TO FLY WITHIN TWO YEARS |
XCOR Announcement March 26, 2008, XCOR AEROSPACE SUBORBITAL VEHICLE TO FLY WITHIN TWO YEARS |
Mar 26 2008, 03:12 PM
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XCOR AEROSPACE SUBORBITAL VEHICLE TO FLY WITHIN TWO YEARS
New vehicle called the Lynx Los Angeles, March 26, 2008 – A small California aerospace company today unveiled a new suborbital spaceship that will provide affordable front-seat rides to the edge of space for the millions of people who want to buy a ticket. The company, XCOR Aerospace, of Mojave, CA, announced that its two-seat Lynx suborbital spaceship will carry people or payloads to where they will experience weightlessness and see the stars above and the Earth and its atmosphere below. This will launch XCOR into the emerging space tourism market, estimated at over a half-billion dollars. The Lynx will offer affordable access to space for individuals, researchers and educators,” said XCOR CEO Jeff Greason. “Future versions of Lynx will offer ever-improving capabilities for scientific and engineering research and commercial applications. .... more -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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