http://futurismic.com/2009/02/26/price-wars-in-space/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://futurismic.com/2009/02/26/price-wars-in-space/comment-page-1/#comment-43580 Jim Basler Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:03:54 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=6265#comment-43580 Neither company has made an actual tourism flight yet, but at least Virgin has an actual passenger spacecraft under construction that is based on a prototype that has flown into space (more than once) and been proven. What does XCOR have to offer? To the best of my knowledge, none of the other fledgling space tourism companies has prototype that has actually been proven with a flight into space. Offering a lower price isn't going to do you much good if you don't have a craft that can fly and your competitor does -- especially when you consider that Virgin might lower their price once their startup costs have been recovered and all they have left to worry about are operating costs. Neither company has made an actual tourism flight yet, but at least Virgin has an actual passenger spacecraft under construction that is based on a prototype that has flown into space (more than once) and been proven. What does XCOR have to offer? To the best of my knowledge, none of the other fledgling space tourism companies has prototype that has actually been proven with a flight into space. Offering a lower price isn’t going to do you much good if you don’t have a craft that can fly and your competitor does — especially when you consider that Virgin might lower their price once their startup costs have been recovered and all they have left to worry about are operating costs.

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