Jules Klar Sells First RocketShip Tours Spaceflight Ticket To Adventurer Per Wimmer (video)

Per Wimmer speaks at an XCOR Aerospace press conference, after purchasing the first ticket from Jules Klar, CEO of RocketShip Tours, for a suborbital ride on the XCOR Lynx. Above is a video of Danish adventurer/financier Per Wimmer purchasing that very first ticket from Jules Klar for a trip into sub-orbital space on the XCOR Aerospace Lynx Rocketplane and a succeeding interview with Space Lifestyle Magazine on December 2, 2008 at the Beverly Hills Hilton in California.

RocketShip Tours Sells First Space Travel Ticket to Adventurer Per Wimmer

First RocketShip Tours customer Per Wimmer of  Denmark is awarded a ceremonial ticket by RocketShipTours CEO Jules Klar
 after signing the final page of a contract to be the first Lynx space flight participant

Mojave, CA : December 2, 2008 – Travel entrepreneur, Jules Klar, who introduced hundreds of thousands of Americans to European travel in the 1960’s has taken luxury travel to new heights—the edge of space. Jules Klar, founder of Phoenix, AZ-based RocketShip Tours, has announced that his company will immediately begin selling rides to the edge of space for $95,000 per flight. Participants will fly aboard the Lynx, a two-seat suborbital vehicle being built by California-based XCOR Aerospace.

South Korean Space Center Selects XCOR’s Lynx for Suborbital Operations

Yecheon Space Center in South Korea

Mojave, CA, USA & Yecheon-gun, ROK: December 17, 2009 --The Yecheon Astro Space Center announced today that it has selected XCOR Aerospace as its preferred supplier of suborbital space launch services. Operating under a wet lease model, XCOR intends to supply services to the Center using the Lynx Mark II suborbital vehicle, pending United States government approvals to station the vehicle in the Republic of Korea.

Ensemble Travel® Group Partners with RocketShip Tours

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with Exclusive Offers That Make Your Travel Dreams Come True 

New York, NY: June 22, 2009 – Ensemble Travel® Group today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Rocketship Tours, a company dedicated to making space travel accessible and relatively affordable to those who aspire to such an out-of-this-world adventure. This unique space experience includes a five-day, four-night training program at a deluxe resort in Arizona, medical evaluation and screening, and cancellation insurance. Guests will travel to the edge of space in the suborbital Lynx rocket ship, powered by environmentally friendly rocket engines. Unlike other programs, the RocketShip Tours adventure is truly intimate, pairing just a single passenger on each flight – who sits in the co-pilot’s seat – next to the astronaut-pilot who’s flying the space vehicle.

XCOR Aerospace Suborbital Vehicle To Fly Within Two Years

XCOR's Lynx Rocketplane...Book Your Flight with RocketShip Tours Today!

New vehicle called the Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft.

Los Angeles, CA: March 26, 2008 – A small California aerospace company today unveiled a new suborbital spaceship that will provide affordable front-seat rides to the edge of space for the millions of people who want to buy a ticket. The company, XCOR Aerospace, of Mojave, CA, announced that its two-seat Lynx suborbital spaceship will carry people or payloads to where they will experience weightlessness and see the stars above and the Earth and its atmosphere below. This will launch XCOR into the emerging space tourism market, estimated at over a half-billion dollars.