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EZ-ROCKET, FROM 4
test pilot was Dick Rutan (16 flights) followed ously worked at Rotary Rocket.
later by the late former NASA Astronaut Rich- Building on the EZ-Rocket’s success, XCOR
ard Searfoss (nine flights), plus a single flight Aerospace had planned to proceed towards a
piloted by Melvill in 2002. phased development of its next generation ve-
The EZ-Rocket is on loan to Mojave Air and hicle, the suborbital RLV named Xerus, which
Space Port, and was on display at the Plane was to take a passenger and a pilot to an altitude
Crazy Saturday 40th Anniversary Celebration of more than 60 miles — or “astronaut wings”
of the Long-EZ first flight. Oct. 19, 2019. altitude.
XCOR Aerospace was founded in Mojave, Unfortunately their plans did not materialize
Calif., in 1999 by Jeff Greason, Dan DeLong, and in 2017 XCOR closed its doors and filed for
Aleta Jackson and Doug Jones who had previ- Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Courtesy photograph
Dan DeLong, XCOR cofounder with XCOR EZ-Rocket.

The EZ-
Rocket on
display at
the Mojave
Air and
Space Port in
Mojave, Calif.,
Plane Crazy
Saturday 40th
Anniversary
Celebration of
the Long-EZ
first flight, Oct. Photograph by Mike Massee
19, 2019. Dick Rutan delivers the mail to California City. The EZ-Rocket flight on Dec. 3, 2005, was the first
time a rocket vehicle had been used to carry U.S. mail from one post office (Mojave) to another
Courtesy photograph (California City).

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