KLM Partners With Space Experience Curacao on Suborbital Flights

November 30, 2010 on 7:36 am | In Adventure Travel, Airlines, Aruba Bonaire Curacao, Beachbooker, Caribbean | Comments Off


DE_b2c_A_120x600_deKLM Royal Dutch Airlines has announced that it is embarking upon a new relationship with Space Experience Curacao (SXC). KLM will be supporting future suborbital flights through purchases, inclusion in their frequent flyer program, inclusion in future KLM vacation packages to Curacao, and other yet-to-be-named support. The flights will be made on the XCOR Lynx suborbital spacecraft.

Last month, SXC and XCOR Aerospace jointly announced the intent of SXC to lease a production version of the Lynx suborbital spacecraft, pending United States government approvals, to station the vehicle on the island of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles. With a planned start date in January 2014, SXC and now KLM will market and sell flights. XCOR will provide operational support for the vehicle at Space Port Curacao.

Space Experience Curacao was founded in 2008 to provide commercial space launch facilities and suborbital flight services from the Caribbean island of Curacao. SXC intends to offer suborbital space tourism flights and scientific research missions out of Space Port Curacao. SXC is led by its two founders and managing partners, former Royal Netherlands Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ben Droste and active Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 pilot Harry van Hulten.

Droste also led the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programs (NIVR), the precursor of today’s Netherlands Space Office, and NASA’s counterpart in the Netherlands.

For more information, visit www.xcor.com

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