Passengers who had hoped to make flights in the Lynx included the winners from the Axe Apollo Space Academy worldwide perfume contest, and Justin Dowd of Worcester, Massachusetts, who won[13] Metro International's Race for Space newspaper contest.[14] As of July 2015, the passenger ticket was projected to cost $150,000.[15][16] As of December, 2015, Kayak.com was reportedly selling tickets for flights on the XCOR Lynx starting in 2016.[17]