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Interorbital Systems Featured on BBC's Fast Track Travel Show Space Tourism Special! Click here to view! Interorbital Systems Announces Lunar Sample Return Mission! Advance sale of Moon Dust and Moon Rocks! Interorbital Successfully Tests Sea Star TSAAHTO's Guidance Computer. Preparing for Flight Test.
Interorbital Releases Neptune
Rocket Design; Readies for MSLV Flight
Interorbital Systems
and European Philanthropic Organization ‘Vision One’ Join Forces in
Space Venture
Sea Star TSAAHTO Flight Demonstrator
Modular Tankage Section Nears Completion
Interorbital Systems Opens European
Liaison Office!
Neptune TSAAHTO Crew Module (CM)
Flight Training Simulator Phase I Construction Completed!
Detailed trajectory analysis of the
Sea Star TSAAHTO rocket has been completed! October 2005: Interorbital Systems announces the sale of its first "Promotional Fare" spaceline ticket to Tim Reed of Gladstone, Missouri. Additional spaceline ticket sales are pending. May 2005: Interorbital Systems successfully test fires a rocket engine with an expansion-deflection (E-D) nozzle. December 2004: IOS static fires its GPRE 3.0KNHx engine several times for the sound crew working on the film "Serenity ". The IOS engine's sound will be applied to the rocket engines in the film. July 2004: Interorbital Systems announces
it will launch a satellite with the world's first privately- funded
satellite launch vehicle (Sea Star SAAHTO) in 2006. August 2003:
Justin Houchin signs on with Interorbital Systems to become the
first teenager in space. January 2003: Interorbital Systems joins
the X Prize competition. November 2002: Interorbital Systems
completes the Texas Aerospace Commission spaceport contract. July 2002: Interorbital Systems chosen by
Texas Aerospace Commission to design a Texas-based spaceport. IOS wins
Phase I contract. May 2002: Mercury 13 astronaut candidate,
Wally Funk, signs on to become IOS' first astronaut-tourist. January 2002: Interorbital Systems
completes a site survey of Spaceport Tonga in the South Pacific. January 2001: Interorbital Systems
acquires an additional static test site in Mojave. October 2000: Interorbital Systems
receives a federal Launch License from the AST (Office of Commercial Space
Transportation) to carry out launches to 120 miles altitude from the
Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. December 1997: IOS completes its contract to provide tankage/fuel delivery system for Dick Rutan's Global Hilton nonstop around-the-world balloon flight attempt. Interorbital
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