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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Space tourism |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Arizona, USA |
Key people | Jules Klar
- Chief Executive Officer Rosemary Karlin - General Manager R. J. Watters III - Director of Sales & Marketing |
| Owner | Jules Klar |
| Website | www.rocketshiptours.com |
RocketShip Tours is an American space tourism company founded in 2008 by travel industry entrepreneur Jules Klar and which planned to provide sub-orbital human spaceflights to the paying public, in partnership[1] with rocketplane developer XCOR Aerospace. Klar created RocketShip Tours to act as General Sales Agent for XCOR Aerospace.
Jules Klar got his start in the travel business in New York City in 1961. He founded $5-A-Day Tours in partnership with Arthur Frommer of Frommer's fame. Klar's company, Great American Travel became one of the most successful wholesale travel organizations in America through the succeeding years. The company's space tourism package included screening, training and a trip into suborbital space. Jules selected XCOR Aerospace to partner with, due to its record of reliable rocket engine development and technological approach towards suborbital space travel.
In 2012 XCOR signed Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) as their new General Sales Agent For Space Tourism Flights.[2]
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- ^ "XCOR Announces RocketShip Space Tourism Venture". Aviation Week's Aerospace Daily & Defense Report; section: News; Pg. 5 Vol. 228 No. 44. December 3, 2008.
- ^ Chow, Denise (8 June 2012) Space tourists can hop on a flight in 2014, XCOR says NBC news, Retrieved 19 February 2013