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They include the successful launch in May 2012 of the Falcon 9 vehicle and the Dragon space capsule by Space X, a company based in Hawthorne, California, which rendezvoused with the International Space Station; the soon-to-be-completed spaceport in New Mexico that will be the launch site for Virgin Galactic’s space tourism program, and the burgeoning efforts of XCOR Aerospace, a Mojave based.
With the July 2001 announcement of the intended flight of a second space tourist (Thawte Millionaire Mark Shuttleworth), here is a list of some companies involved in commercial launch vehicles.Rotary Rocket Company Developed the ROTON, a reusable capsule with propellar blades to allow a gentle controlled decent. The company liquidated in 2000 after several succesful test flights.
In partnership with California-based space tourism company SpaceX, the Axe Space Academy Sweepstakes invites contestants from 60 countries to enter to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip into space on the XCOR Lynx, an aircraft built for suborbital travel. Interested parties can submit an essay online detailing their space-worthy merit. The essays with the most votes in each participating country.
Space has not been this exciting since the 1960s. Nasa recently launched Orion, its first new spacecraft to carry astronauts since the Space Shuttle, and is developing a massive new rocket to.
XCOR is a space tourism startup based (for now) in California’s Mojave Desert, developing a two-seat space plane called the Lynx, that takes off and lands like an airplane and is designed to.
For years, talk of space tourism has been something confined to cinema and fiction. Seen as something our future grandchildren would get to experience, today the goal of making space tourism has become that bit closer. This comes after Virgin Galactic completed its merger with Chamath Palihapitiya’s various ventures. The merger was put together, and it means that the Virgin Galactic firm.
Esther is already an investor in XCOR, Constellation Services, Zero-G, Icon Aircraft and Space Adventures, so this is more than just pie-in-the-sky speculation about the future.