Showing posts with label xcor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xcor. Show all posts

Monday, November 03, 2014

Win a Free Ticket For a Ride Into Space...



Yep, you read correctly!  The folks behind the movie 'Interstellar' have teamed up with XCOR Aerospace for a contest that will give an extremely lucky person a free space trip.

How you may be asking? Well according to the Yahoo article:
  • People who purchase their "Interstellar" tickets through the online site Fandango through Dec. 1 have a chance to win a free suborbital spaceflight aboard XCOR Aerospace's Lynx Mark II rocket plane. Seats aboard the vehicle normally sell for $100,000.
 For  more info  go HERE

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Suborbital Vehicle Expected To Fly Within Two Years


XCOR Aerospace has just unveiled a new suborbital spaceship that will provide affordable front-seat rides to the edge of space. XCOR Aerospace, of Mojave, CA, announced that its two-seat Lynx, roughly the size of a small private airplane, will first take off in 2010 and will be capable of flying several times each day. XCOR says that Lynx will operate much like a commercial aircraft. Its liquid fuel engines will provide the enhanced safety, durability, reliability and maintainability that keep operating costs low, while keeping pollution in the environment much lower than solid or hybrid rocket engines. The big difference is the passenger rides up front and not in the back which will add greatly to the flight experience.