The Rubicon, a three-person suborbital spacecraft that two Forks aerospace engineers hope to test launch off the coast next month, will be displayed at a future date in Forks and Port Angeles — not today.
Phillip Storm, president of the Space Transport Corp., based at Forks Industrial Park, said he and his partner, company Vice President Eric Meier, will show their 22-foot Rubicon — with orange nose cone, guidance system, seven-rocket engine cluster and mobile launch trailer — at The Museum of Flight at Seattle’s Boeing Field today and Monday.
Plans had been to show the craft today at the Forks Thrifty Mart parking lot in Forks and then the Rite Aid drug store parking lot on Port Angeles’ South Lincoln Street.
“Hopefully we’ll be able to do this in the near future,” said Meier.
But today, he added, “STC is honored to exhibit Rubicon at The Museum of Flight on Father’s Day, their biggest day of the year.”
Storm and Meier plan to send Rubicon on its first unmanned, 3-mile-high test flight in mid-July, with 600 pounds of weight inside to simulate the three passengers it is ultimately intended to carry.
