Space Flight 'Sports Car'

Found on NewScientist:

A sleek craft that may be the first "sports car" of commercial spaceflight was unveiled on Wednesday, in Mojave, California, USA. It is designed to be able to travel to the edge of space and back several times a day.

While Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo will carry eight people, making it more of a space minivan, the Lynx Mark I is only a two-seater and smaller than a private jet.

US Company Xcor Aerospace revealed its plans for the new rocketplane at the company's headquarters, on the edge of the tarmac of the US's first certified private spaceport. SpaceShipTwo is under development just next door.

Xcor say Lynx Mark I will start flights two years from now.

Very, very cool. But I doubt I could afford the ticket price.

Mike Treder