Excalibur Almaz Wants to Sell $155 Million Moon Travel Tickets
We don't know what the going rate is for venturing off to infinity and beyond, but if you'd like to boldly go where man has gone a few times before, a company called Excalibur Almaz will take you there... for a price. The commercial aerospace company said it's ready to start selling tourists trips to the moon, tickets of which will reportedly cost around $155 million at the outset.
"Suborbital flight experience will serve as an integral preparatory step for the safety, education and enjoyment of our customers traveling on crew expedition missions," said Art Dula, Excalibur Almaz Founder and Chairman. "The XCOR flights will enhance the overall spaceflight experience of our program and will help ensure that our passengers are both mission and medically qualified to fly in space."
Excalibur Almaz plans to take wealthy tourists to the moon using a high performance winged piloted launch vehicle called Lynx, which the company claims can be tailored "to the needs of the participant, scientist, and/or orbital astronaut trainee, and then flying those missions up to four times per day for a price that is less than one sixth the main competitor."
The first Lynx flight will take place later this year or in early 2013, with plans to expand to several missions per day by 2015.
"Suborbital flight experience will serve as an integral preparatory step for the safety, education and enjoyment of our customers traveling on crew expedition missions," said Art Dula, Excalibur Almaz Founder and Chairman. "The XCOR flights will enhance the overall spaceflight experience of our program and will help ensure that our passengers are both mission and medically qualified to fly in space."
Excalibur Almaz plans to take wealthy tourists to the moon using a high performance winged piloted launch vehicle called Lynx, which the company claims can be tailored "to the needs of the participant, scientist, and/or orbital astronaut trainee, and then flying those missions up to four times per day for a price that is less than one sixth the main competitor."
The first Lynx flight will take place later this year or in early 2013, with plans to expand to several missions per day by 2015.
