{"id":96440,"date":"2009-12-17T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2155857"},"modified":"2009-12-17T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:10:00","slug":"koreans-plan-space-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/96440","title":{"rendered":"Koreans plan space tours"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Click for video:<\/B><\/A> The Lynx Mark I rocket plane, shown in this artist’s conception,
would serve as a test bed for a higher-flying Lynx Mark II. Click on the image
to watch a video from XCOR’s March 2008 announcement about the Lynx.

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XCOR Aerospace and Yecheon Astro Space Center today announced a deal<\/A> that would eventually provide rides to the edge of outer space from South Korea, in a rocket plane made in the U.S.A.<\/P>
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The $30 million project calls for the development of a suborbital spaceport at Yecheon, which would serve as the Asian base of operations for California-based XCOR’s Lynx Mark II rocket plane. Today’s announcement didn’t provide a flight timetable, but if XCOR sticks to its hoped-for schedule, the first Mark II plane could be flying in the 2012-2013 time frame.<\/P>
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The deal is dependent on approvals from the U.S. government for export arrangements, as well as from the South Korean government for launch operations.<\/P>…(read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

XCOR Aerospace Click for video: The Lynx Mark I rocket plane, shown in this artist’s conception,would serve as a test bed for a higher-flying Lynx Mark II. Click on the image to watch a video from XCOR’s March 2008 announcement about the Lynx. XCOR Aerospace and Yecheon Astro Space Center today announced a deal that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}