Jan 112013
No bucks, no Buck Rogers. It’s been true for fifty years; if you want to go to space, you have to have lots of money. So for commercial space tourism companies, getting paying customers who are willing to book before the vehicle is even in service is vital but difficult.
XCOR seems to have snagged a pretty good customer:
Unilever Buys 22 Flights on XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft For Global AXE Campaign
A seat on the Lynx Mk II goes for $100,000, so this would seem to be $2,200,000 for XCOR. Plus it seems to be a part of a bigger publicity drive, so that should help gather interested parties.
Of course, they still need to fly.