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XCOR Lynx Bringing Sports Car-esque Travel to Space

A two-seater spaceship smaller than a private jet that will take people up for a 25-minute space flight, is being launched in Mojave today. According to the Lynx Mark 1's makers, Xcor Aerospace, the spacecraft is expected to be at the test-flight stage by 2010. The two-seater craft has room for one passenger besides the pilot and will be, I guess, one way for a wealthy passenger to discover just how lonely it is 38 miles above the earth. More info, plus an animated video, below.

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9:47 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By AddyDugdale
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Latest by CrashingOut: so THIS is what they've been up to. I was dicking around the Mojave Spaceport a few years ago and I saw their vari-EZ blast by, at precariously awesome speeds, using rocket propulsion! I knew they were working on their more »

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Singapore Space Port Fantasized About

Space flight is not just for governments any more, and a group from Singapore is getting in on the action, with a bold, fantastic press release about its plans to open a $115 million spaceport complete with astronaut training facilities and suborbital space flights. A partnership between Space Adventures, Ltd. and an unnamed Singapore-based consortium, the hook for tourists is a 62-mile-high spaceflight where passengers will experience five minutes of weightlessness while gazing out into the infinite and beyond. More »

11:01 AM on Wed Feb 22 2006
By Charlie White
457 views, 7 comments

Latest by jetstar7: Spence, you can hold the corn-dogs. Thank you very much. And yes, the Singapore National Stadium is getting old and this is her final year of service before it all comes down but to call it the dumps? C'mon. And more »