November 14, 2017
WILLEMSTAD – XCOR, the American company that aimed to offer flights into space with its Lynx rocket plane from a launching platform in Curacao, is bankrupt and the space tourists who paid more than €70,000 – 260 in all, for a total of more than €18.2 million (close to $21,.5 million at the current rate of exchange) – have lost their money, the Volkskrant reported on Tuesday.
http://stmaartennews.com/technology/space-tourism-curacao-falls-apart/
Source: https://www.sxm-talks.com/st-maarten-news/space-tourism-from-curacao-falls-apart/
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