Posts by Craig Buck 2 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Mar 2008
All well and good Bruce. I'm just commenting on the fact that "Lynx" and "Space" are being discussed in the same article. XCOR is pushing PR of "Space travel" in direct association with their "Maximum altitude 61KM Lynx ride" and it is very misleading. Tell people it can go twice as high as Mig25, tell people it will go Mach 2, but don't tell or lead people to believe they will be in SPACE.
CEO Jeff may be a nice guy, but he needs to dust of his highschool science book! The internationally recognized boundary of "space" is an altitude of 100km. The Lynx AIRCRAFT has max altitude capability of 61km. Anyone paying $100K for a trip to space will be getting an expensive lesson in proper definitions. I'm sure it will be a fun high altitude PLANE ride, but SPACEcraft it is not! And what's up with Ricky Searfoss comments??? He's been to space, but apparently can't remember the way?
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