The mission of RocketShip Tours is to make space travel accessible and affordable to all those who aspire to experience this great new adventure.

RocketShip Tours embodies the passion of its founder, Jules H. Klar, an innovative travel entrepreneur. Inspired by views of Earth at 60,000 feet aboard the supersonic Concorde, Jules has developed the ultimate travel experience in collaboration with XCOR Aerospace.

As General Sales Agent for XCOR, RocketShip Tours is the exclusive global provider of Participant services for the Lynx, the revolutionary suborbital space vehicle powered by environmentally friendly rocket engines.

Jules H. Klar Chairman and CEO RocketShip Tours

Jules Klar got his start in the travel business in New York City in 1961. With $100 and a revolutionary idea, he founded $5-A-Day Tours in partnership with Arthur Frommer. His company became one of the most successful wholesale travel organizations in America. During his career, Jules has sent hundreds of thousands of American tourists to every part of the globe.

Known as an innovator in the industry, Jules developed RocketShip Tours to act as General Sales Agent for XCOR Aerospace. Drawing on his expansive knowledge of the travel industry, he has put together a package that includes screening, training and what promises to be a life-changing experience in suborbital space. Jules believes XCOR Aerospace, with its record of reliable rocket engine development, offers the most viable technology for suborbital space travel.

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Jeff Greason CEO XCOR Aerospace

Jeff Greason earned his engineering spurs not in aerospace, but in micro-space, developing techniques to set up Intel computer chips for mass production. Intel management presented Greason with a coveted Intel Achievement Award for his work on BiCMOS technology, which later became the basis for the Pentium processor.

Jeff left electronics and entered aerospace when he was hired by the innovative startup Rotary Rocket to hire and manage its propulsion team. He has been at the helm of XCOR since he and three others founded the firm in 1999, and has overseen the development of its different long-life reusable rocket engines, as well as two rocket-powered aircraft.

Greason was cited by Time magazine in 2001 as one of the “Inventors of the Year” for his team’s work on the EZ-Rocket and currently holds 18 U.S. patents. He graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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Col. Rick Searfoss (USAF Ret.) Test Pilot

A fighter pilot, test pilot and astronaut, Colonel Rick Searfoss is one of only seven people with more than 50 flights in rocket powered vehicles. His first space flight in 1993 set the record for the longest duration Space Shuttle mission. In 1996, he piloted Atlantis to the Russian space station Mir. In 1998, he commanded the “Neurolab” mission on Columbia, which was the most complex scientific research space mission ever flown.

After graduating first in his class from the U.S. Air Force Academy, Searfoss has made a career out of aviation. He is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School and U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, piloted two Space Shuttle missions and commanded a third, and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. He has logged more that 939 hours in space and 5,600 hours flying time in 70 different types of aircraft.

Searfoss is also an accomplished engineer, having majored in aeronautical engineering and later earned a graduate degree from the California Institute of Technology on a National Science Foundation Fellowship.

Col. Searfoss is currently XCOR’s chief test pilot, providing the team with his unique blend of experience, skill and technical expertise.