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RocketShip Tours is an American space tourism company founded in 2008 by travel industry entrepreneur Jules Klar and which planned to provide sub-orbital human spaceflights to the paying public, in partnership with rocketplane developer XCOR Aerospace. Klar created RocketShip Tours to act as General Sales Agent for XCOR Aerospace. Jules Klar got his start in the travel business in New York City in 1961. He founded ''$5-A-Day Tours'' in partnership with Arthur Frommer of Frommer's fame. Klar's company, (Great American Travel ) became one of the most successful wholesale travel organizations in America through the succeeding years. The company's space tourism package included screening, training and a trip into suborbital space. Jules selected XCOR Aerospace to partner with, due to its record of reliable rocket engine development and technological approach towards suborbital space travel. In 2012 XCOR signed Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) as their new General Sales Agent For Space Tourism Flights.〔Chow, Denise (8 June 2012) (Space tourists can hop on a flight in 2014, XCOR says ) NBC news, Retrieved 19 February 2013〕 == Spacecraft == Designed and built by XCOR Aerospace, the Lynx rocketplane will have four liquid rocket engines at the rear of the fuselage burning a mixture of LOX-Kerosene and each of them will give between 2500-2900 lbf (11 120-12 900 N) of thrust.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 XCOR Aerospace Completes Successful First Test Fire of Engine for Lynx Suborbital Launch Vehicle )〕 The Lynx is projected to carry one pilot, a ticketed passenger, and/or a payload or small satellites above 100 km altitude. The occupants would wear pressure suits made by (Orbital Outfitters ). The Lynx was initially announced on March 26, 2008, with plans for an operational vehicle within two years.〔 (XCOR AEROSPACE SUBORBITAL VEHICLE TO FLY WITHIN TWO YEARS )〕 That date has since fallen to late 2011.〔(XCOR Ready for Liftoff - Sept. 13, 2010 )〕 Mark I Prototype Maximum Altitude: 61 km (200,000 ft) Primary Internal Payload: 120 kg (265 lbs) External Dorsal Mounted Pod: 280 kg (617 lbs) Secondary payload spaces include a small area inside the cockpit behind the pilot or outside the vehicle in two areas in the aft fuselage fairing. Mark II Production Model Maximum Altitude: +100 km (+330,000 ft) Primary Internal Payload: 120 kg (265 lbs) External Dorsal Mounted Pod: 650 kg (1433 lbs) and is large enough to hold a two-stage carrier to launch a microsatellite or multiple nanosatellites into low Earth orbit. Secondary payload spaces include the same as the Mark I. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RocketShip Tours」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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