Posted on 10/07/2014 11:40:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Hot off the news that XCOR is partnering with Mars One to offer joyrides in space, the company announced this week that it has mated the cockpit to the fuselage on the prototype which they classify as a major milestone in construction. Check out pictures of the team at work below.
The team at XCOR has been working a long time to reach this goal, stated XCOR CEO Jeff Greason. We always knew there would be a day when we could see a spacecraft forming in our hangar. Today is that day. These pictures show our ongoing journey to make commercial space flight a reality.
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I use Kerbal Space Program and build my own
Interestingly, I got a picture of it over the fence in your bck yard.
The thing looks like a Hummer with wings....
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KSP seems pretty cool but won’t run on my old putter
My son loves that game. He's 10, and he's created some really neat stuff. Some of it blows up real good, too.
He got to meet Dr. Harrison Schmitt (the only scientist astronaut of the Apollo Program to walk on the Moon) a couple of weeks back. He even mentioned the Kerbal Space Program to the good Dr., and he said, "Good, keep it up!"
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