Hyperbola has learnt the identity of the first customer for Xcor Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital vehicle and this blog can say now thatthe individual is a northern European (no it’s not Richard Branson), is male, is from a country near to Germany, has worked in finance for many years and is a Virgin Galactic customer
Xcor has announced that at a press conference on 2 December it will discuss its technical progress for the Lynx engine and will introduce to the world its first customer-astronaut, which its press release says is a European
Visit Hyperbola at 1800h GMT (1000h PST) on 2 December to find out the identity of Xcor’s European customer