Tag: astronauts

Ultimate Experience Suborbital Space Flight

23 August 2010

It’s no secret that, since the dawn of time, humans have wanted to explore the stars. In this day and age, however, people not only want to get a closer view of the others stars and planets out there, but they also want to feel the various effects of space – primarily weightlessness. Zero gravity flights have become big in the absence of legitimate space flights. Until now, that is.

Recently, many investors decided that it was time to take people into space, or at least into suborbital space. They accomplished this by spending millions of dollars researching, developing and testing a craft that, for all intents and purposes, is just a heavy duty airplane able to take passengers into space, land safely and make the trek again.

The Suborbital Space Flight experience offered by Lynx gives everyone—with $95,000 to spend—a chance to be an astronaut. The idea behind the flight is to take you out of the Earth’s atmosphere and into the beginnings of space, where you’ll then orbit the globe at incredible speeds and make reentry.

Read the rest of this entry »