You'd Look Sweet Upon the Seat of a Spaceship Built for Two
By Eliza Strickland
03.26.08

The fledgling business of blasting rich tourists to the edge of space is getting competitive.

The commercial space company Xcor Aerospace is announcing its entrance into the space-tourism business at a press conference this morning, where company executives are expected to unveil a model of the Lynx, a two-seat suborbital spaceship that is smaller than a business jet.

Company spokesman Doug Graham says the company has charted a course that leads to fully orbital vehicles. "The Lynx is not where we're going to stop," he told Wired.com.

No company has yet launched a commercial suborbital spaceflight, and Xcor is not staking its claim on being the first to send tourists into the mesosphere. story and image