but spaceflight is always risky
business and contingency life
support is a must. The Lynx can
accommodate one passenger per
flight. According to former NASA
astronaut, Col. Richard Seafoss,
who is now Chief Test Pilot for XCOR,
“Flying with us aboard the Lynx is a
whole set of different experiences.
All of the things that I experienced
flying the shuttle, all of those phases
of flight, are there. The boosts, the
weightlessness, the fact that you
are up in the pilot’s seat as opposed
to being in the back of the plane
like a passenger on an airliner – this
is more like “The Right Stuff” kind of
experience.”
Though the price tag seems high,
XCOR is offering flights at a much
lower cost than its competition.
The company that will emerge as
the leader in this exciting area of
The Lynx main engine being test fired at the XCOR test site located on the Mojave Air
and Space Port in Mojave, California.
Photo: XCOR Aerospace/Mike Massee
commercial spaceflight is yet to be
seen, but XCOR is speculated to
send up its first tourist flight in 2014.
If all goes as planned, it won’t be
long until we get to see the world
from the perspective of a space
tourist. Col. Seafoss has referred to
the trip as the ‘Greatest Ride Off
Earth’. With that kind of description,
it can easily be deduced that one’s
head will remain in the clouds long
after the flight has landed.
Lynx spacecraft making big screen debut
By Sherry Valare
There is a lot of excitement coming in the near
future for the Lynx spacecraft and everyone
involved in its development at XCOR Aerospace. In
a partnership with Centerboro Productions, XCOR’s
Lynx spacecraft is going to be making its acting
debut in the upcoming Science Fiction/Action/
Thriller 3D movie “Newcomers”, where a NASA
astronaut becomes the last line of defense against a
global alien invasion.
Scheduled to start production this year using regular
and 3-D cameras on board the Lynx spaceship, this
film will be the first to have exclusive footage shot from
sub-orbital space by a privately owned commercial
spaceflight company