The Ultimate Prize was the Con?s Utmost Surprise as One of The Big Bang Theory?s Biggest Fans Gets an Out-of-This-World Experience From Warner Bros. INTO SPACE aboard XCOR Aerospace?s Lynx RLV (Reusable Launch Vehicle) at the show?s panel session in Hall H at Comic-Con: To see photos of the unbelievable winning moment as XCOR Chief Test Pilot/former NASA Astronaut Richard Searfoss announces the trip and lucky winner ? Mercedes Becerra of Paso Robles, Calif. ? during a surprise appearance at The Big Bang Theory?s Comic-Con panel today in Hall H, please click here: http://bit.ly/LPg04n [...] everyone ? cast, crew and the millions of fans of the show ? can gather together and experience that same wonderful bond when we watch one lucky fan take an actual trip into space, courtesy of XCOR. In The Big Bang Theory?s season five finale, Caltech engineer Howard Wolowitz (series star Simon Helberg) is launched into space aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule. When XCOR?s Searfoss, in a surprise appearance, offered the very real opportunity to actually take a trip outside the earth?s atmosphere on their suborbital spacecraft, series co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre suggested it be given to one of the show?s fans in attendance. Located in Mojave, California, XCOR Aerospace is in the business of developing and producing safe, reliable and reusable rocket powered vehicles, propulsion systems, advanced non-flammable composites and other enabling technologies. XCOR is working with aerospace prime contractors and government customers on major propulsion systems, and concurrently building the Lynx, a piloted, two-seat, fully reusable, liquid rocket powered vehicle that takes off and lands horizontally. The Lynx-family of vehicles serves three primary missions depending on their specific type including: research & scientific missions, private spaceflight, and micro satellite launch (only on the Lynx Mark III). The Lynx production models (designated Lynx Mark II) are designed to be robust, multi-mission (research / scientific or private spaceflight) commercial vehicles capable of flying to 100+ km in altitude up to four times per day and are being offered on a wet lease basis. http://www.xcor.com
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