Space Tourism Industry Gains New Competitor

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."

What's more...

[an.echte.trilingue]

its clean-burning, two-seat Lynx spacecraft will lift off by 2010

What's more, it will include web browsing capabilities.

Re:Pretty Impressive

[garett_spencley]

"Right now...unless you have more money than God, you are pretty much out of luck."

Bad analogy.

Linus has certainly made some coin via free stock options from Linux companies, various donations, trademark royalties etc. but he's not THAT rich.

Re:Pretty Impressive

[moderatorrater]

Which raises the question: can God create a vacation so expensive that He Himself cannot afford it?

Lonely mile high club

[ziggy00001]

I guess it will be kind of difficult to join the mile high club with only one passenger on board at a time...then again it would be over quicker.

image of Earth's curvature from Lynx's cockpit

[bobdotorg]

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/celestal.htm#earth [geocities.com]

And here's the shot of Mars:
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