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The XCOR Lynx Mark I vehicle being fabricated at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif. Photo: Mike Massee / XCOR Aerospace XCOR Aerospace proudly announced continued progress on its Lynx spaceplane, a suborbital spacecraft designed to take humans and payloads to the edge of space. The Lynx strakes, a major […] XCOR welder, machinist and fabricator Eber West performs a test weld for a fixture to mount the Lynx truss to a firewall test stand. Photo Credit: XCOR For many weeks and months the XCOR Team has been hard at work on a journey like no other, building Lynx. We would like to share […] Image Credit: XCOR MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif (April 2, 2013) — Are you a hardware hacker? Do you have the right stuff to become a citizen scientist or citizen astronaut? Here’s your chance to find out. […] Photo Credit: Mike Massee / XCOR The company producing the Lynx suborbital space plane has announced that it has successfully test-fired a full-piston, pump-powered rocket engine. It is hoped that similar engines can allow the Mojave, Calif.-based company to conduct multiple suborbital flights per day. […] The Golden Spike Company’s Alan Stern talks with AmericaSpace about his company’s plans to return crews to the lunar surface. Image Credit: The Golde Spike Company / NASA Within the past month or so, the commercial space firm, The Golden Spike Company, has burst onto the public consciousness with its announcement that it […] Image Credit: NASA’s Commercial Space Partners In yet another effort to strengthen ties with emerging commercial space companies, NASA has tapped 13 technology payloads to fly on commercial vehicles as part of its Flight Opportunities program. These range from rockets and space planes to balloons. NASA hopes that these flights will allow those […] Whenever a post that does not paint the NewSpace movement in glowing terms is posted, NewSpace fans issue a bitter and unending series of rants filled with cherry-picked “facts” and insults. Why is this? Photo Credit: Jason Rhian / AmericaSpace Where did NewSpace come from? The philosophy, the people … where did they […] Florida Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla) gestures to those in attendance regarding the prospects of having XCOR open a base of operations on Florida’s SPace Coast. Photo Credit: Julian Leek / Blue Sawtooth Studios CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – The private space firm XCOR announced possible plans to establish a base of operations along Florida’s […] |
 Next Launch NG-11 on a Antares 230 rocket from Wallops Island, VA scheduled for: 17 Apr 19 at 20:46 GMT 17 Apr 19 at 4:46pm Eastern 
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