Space Adventures Explorer
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The Explorer spaceplane is a suborbital tourist rocketplane based on the C-21. The plane is being developed by Space Adventures with the Russian Federal Space Agency and is designed to carry 5 passengers. It is to be air-launched by carrier aircraft from a Space Adventures spaceport. The spaceport for the Explorer is being developed with Prodea (the company of Anoushesh and Amir Ansari, who funded the Ansari X-Prize) in the United Arab Emirates, the Ras Al Khaimah spaceport.