Rocket company offers $95,000 trips to space

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   The space tourism race heated up on Tuesday when a second company began offering tickets for suborbital rides - at less than half the price of competitor Virgin Galactic's.
XCOR Aerospace of California said it is partnering with long-time tour developer and operator Jules Klar, co-creator of the 1960s-era "Europe on $5 a Day" guides, to sell rides aboard its Lynx spaceship for $95,000.
The two-seat Lynx craft is under development at XCOR's Mojave Desert base and test flights are scheduled to begin in 2010 (see 'Sports car' of commercial spaceflight unveiled). Danish investment banker Per Wimmer will take the first ride when paid flights begin, possibly as early as 2011.
The service is similar to trips being sold by Virgin Atlantic Airways's offshoot, Virgin Galactic, which plans to operate a fleet of suborbital spaceships based on the world's first privately developed manned spacecraft, SpaceShipOne.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16185-rocket-company-offers-95000-trips-to-space.html

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	The space tourism race heated up on Tuesday when a second company began offering tickets for suborbital rides - at less than half the price of competitor Virgin Galactic's. XCOR Aerospace of California said it is partnering with long-time tour developer and operator Jules Klar, co-creator of the 1960s-era "Europe on $5 a Day" guides, to sell rides aboard its Lynx spaceship for $95,000. The two-seat Lynx craft is under development at XCOR's Mojave Desert base and test flights are scheduled to begin in 2010 (see 'Sports car' of commercial spaceflight unveiled). Danish investment banker Per Wimmer will take the first ride when paid flights begin, possibly as early as 2011. The service is similar to trips being sold by Virgin Atlantic Airways's offshoot, Virgin Galactic, which plans to operate a fleet of suborbital spaceships based on the world's first privately developed manned spacecraft, SpaceShipOne. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16185-rocket-company-offers-95000-trips-to-space.html