This might be another silly prank for many but a shot in the hand for some real enthusiastic space travellers(would be though). This might be the biggest dream ever. You and your lover or your loved one travelling out there in the space, away from these earthly matters. Oh boy I would love to be the first of them. Ok, dreams apart I just read this article in associated press about a space carrier.
A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 37 miles(61 km) above the Earth. The Lynx, about the size of a small private plane, is expected to begin flying in 2010, according to developer Xcor Aerospace, which planned to release details of the design at a news conference Wednesday.
The Lynx is designed to take off from a runway like a normal plane, reach a top speed of Mach 2 and an altitude of 200,000 feet, then descend in a circling glide to a runway landing. Reportedly, Lynx would be fueled by a kerosene / liquid oxygen mixture and could take off and land from traditional airstrips, and while it could manage several flights per day, each one is only slated to last 25 minutes.
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