by Rob Coppinger | Dec 2, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
At 1000h local time in California (1800h GMT) Xcor Aerospace has its press conference about its first customer, now known to be Danish citizen Per Wimmer, its first travel agent and technical advances for its proposed suborbital Lynx vehicle I have been provided with...
by Rob Coppinger | Dec 2, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
Yes, as a P. W. Mothman has commented (on this earlier post) the Xcor customer is Danish born, UK resident Per Wimmer. Xcor cheekily, and perhaps at some risk, published the above photo but without caption so unless you knew Per you would not have known that he was...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 27, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Suborbital
Hyperbola has learnt the identity of the first customer for Xcor Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital vehicle and this blog can say now thatthe individual is a northern European (no it’s not Richard Branson), is male, is from a country near to Germany, has worked...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 6, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Space tourism, Spaceport, Suborbital
At the 29 October 2008 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) COMmercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) meeting a John Sloan gave a presentation on the FAA’s office of commercial space transportation’s (AST) international strategy that...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 5, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight, Personal spaceflight, Space tourism, Virgin Galactic
Hear Scaled Composites’ founder and chief technology officer Burt Rutan talk about SpaceShipTwo’s (SS2) flight frequency and alternate applications at the 2008 Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin In this...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 4, 2008 | Commercial human spaceflight
Space Exploration Technologies chief executive Elon Musk spoke at the UK’s Royal Aeronautical Society in London on the evening of the 3 JulyThe approximately 10min speech was entitled “What is Needed to Extend Life Permanently Beyond Earth?” Musk...
