Xcor-vette will launch couple into space in two years

"'Sports car' of commercial spaceflight unveiled" from New Scientist reports that a new two seat space ship has been rolled out in Mojave, California - smaller than Virgin's spacecraft which seats eight.

Xcor say Lynx Mark I will start flights two years from now. Funding from the Air Vehicles Directorate of the US Air Force Research Laboratory and additional sources not yet revealed will help develop the craft in time. Xcor says that 50 test flights starting in 2010 over a period of six months should be enough to ready Lynx Mark I for commercial operations.

The Ansari X Prize-winning SpaceShipOne and its successor SpaceShipTwo both need to be carried to high altitude beneath a specialized carrier airplane.