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PHOENIX - During an impromptu ceremony, the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday handed California-based Xcor Aerospace the second launch license ever issued for a commercial vehicle that could someday carry people to outer space.

The license represents another significant step toward an era when regular citizens will be able to buy their way into suborbital space, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars per seat.

Friday's federal go-ahead follows up on the precedent set April 1, when the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation issued a license to Scaled Composites ? like Xcor, based in Mojave, Calif. ? for its SpaceShipOne rocket plane. That license enabled SpaceShipOne to expand its testing in hopes of winning the $10 million X Prize this year.

Xcor's test vehicle, called the Sphinx, would take off like a traditional airplane, then fire up a rocket engine that would bring it to altitudes above 62 miles (100 kilometers). At that height, pilots and passengers could experience weightlessness and survey the curving Earth beneath the blackness of space.

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PHOENIX - During an impromptu ceremony, the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday handed California-based Xcor Aerospace the second launch license ever issued for a commercial vehicle that could someday carry people to outer space.

The license represents another significant step toward an era when regular citizens will be able to buy their way into suborbital space, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars per seat.

Friday's federal go-ahead follows up on the precedent set April 1, when the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation issued a license to Scaled Composites ? like Xcor, based in Mojave, Calif. ? for its SpaceShipOne rocket plane. That license enabled SpaceShipOne to expand its testing in hopes of winning the $10 million X Prize this year.

Xcor's test vehicle, called the Sphinx, would take off like a traditional airplane, then fire up a rocket engine that would bring it to altitudes above 62 miles (100 kilometers). At that height, pilots and passengers could experience weightlessness and survey the curving Earth beneath the blackness of space.