Oklahoma company to take reservations for space rides

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A day after a successful private space flight in California, an Oklahoma-based company says it will begin taking reservations for space flights. <br/><br/>Rocket-plane Limited plans

Tuesday, October 5th 2004, 8:58 am

By: News On 6

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A day after a successful private space flight in California, an Oklahoma-based company says it will begin taking reservations for space flights.

Rocket-plane Limited plans to begin taking paying customers into space in February 2007 at a cost of $99,500 per person.

The company is developing a suborbital launch vehicle called Rocketplane X-P that will launch from the Burns Flat Spaceport. The port is on the former Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base in Washita County.

The vehicle will take passengers more than 68 miles above the Earth for three to four minutes of weightlessness.

Monday, SpaceShipOne claimed a $10-million prize by becoming the first private spacecraft to make two flights of at least 62 miles above the Earth.