---
title: "Lynx Space Plane Achieves Construction Milestone"
description: "Technicians successfully attached a key structure called a \"carry-through spar\" to the body of XCOR Aerospace's Lynx rocket plane"
date: "2014-12-23"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "StefanCretu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/stefancretu"
url: "https://futurism.com/lynx-space-plane-achieves-construction-milestone"
categories:
  - "Off-World"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "space"
---

# Lynx Space Plane Achieves Construction Milestone

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/xcor-lynx-1.jpg>)

- "The carry-through spar is the heart of the loading structure on any winged craft — it supports the primary load of the wings and carries that load through the fuselage,” XCOR CEO Jeff Greason said
- Lynx is a piloted, two-seat vehicle designed to fly one passenger and/or scientific experiments to suborbital space and back on 30-minute missions
- XCOR is developing three versions of Lynx: a prototype called the Mark I, which will enter the flight-test phase next year, and two more advanced variants, called the Mark II and Mark III. The company is currently selling seats aboard the Mark I and Mark II for $95,000 and $100,000, respectively