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Space Tourism Industry Gains New Competitor

Posted by Zonk on from the going-on-up dept.

mattnyc99 writes "There's a new entry in the race for the first space tourism jet: XCOR Aerospace, a California-based rocket builder. The company says its clean-burning, two-seat Lynx spacecraft will lift off by 2010. After we only saw a mockup of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo a couple months back, you'd think this was serious competition in the 'New Space' race, but these photos show that Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites is well on its way with construction."

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  1. Please Launch This by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


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    PatRIOTically,
    K Trout

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