A California-based company called XCOR Aerospace is set to take people for a flight into space for as low as $95,000, less than half the price demanded by their competitors from Virgin Galactic. Although the conditions are not as good, the price and the view are definitely worth it. The tests will begin in 2010 and t... |
3 December 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Apparently, there is no doubt about the winner of the Rocket Racing League's first race, since the competition that took place on Tuesday saw only one rocket plane in the sky, namely that of the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave. The Armadillo rocket plane did not receive the flight approval from the Federal Aviation Adm... |
30 July 2008
09:48 GMT |
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Two of the most promising concepts in the quest to establish a future commercial space flight service, the Armadillo and the XCOR rocket planes, designed and built by the Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas and by the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California, are scheduled to flight a head-to-head race next week, as p... |
23 July 2008
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There are possibly thousands of commercial air flights being carried out every day on Earth, however not even one commercial spaceflight. This is merely because there is no commercial spacecraft available at this moment capable of conducting more than one flight into space each day. To be more accurate, even the spac... |
26 March 2008
08:48 GMT |
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