Editing Richard A. Searfoss (section)

== Civilian space ==
After leaving NASA, Searfoss served as a judge for the [[Ansari X-Prize]], where he officially declared [[SpaceShipOne]] to have won the competition on October 4, 2004, after completing two flights within a two-week period.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}

Searfoss was a test pilot instructor at the [[National Test Pilot School]] at the [[Mojave Spaceport]].<ref>[http://www.ntps.edu/HTML/Bios/rsearfoss.htm NTPS info on Searfoss] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008013730/http://www.ntps.edu/HTML/Bios/rsearfoss.htm |date=2007-10-08 }}</ref>

In 2008, he was a featured guest in a [[Volkswagen]] commercial, where he argued with a black [[Volkswagen Beetle|Beetle]] about who has more engineers between Volkswagen and NASA.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}

From the mid-2000s until the company closed, Searfoss worked with [[XCOR Aerospace]] in the development of their rocket-powered aircraft. {{asof|2013|09}}, he was Chief Test Pilot at XCOR.<ref name=xa20130516>
{{cite web |title=XCOR Team – Pilots |url=http://xcor.com/team/pilots.html |publisher=XCOR Aerospace |accessdate=2013-05-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002220829/http://xcor.com/team/pilots.html |archivedate=2013-10-02 }}</ref> He flew the flight tests and [[Flight envelope|envelope expansion]] of the [[XCOR EZ-Rocket|EZ-Rocket]].  He also served as XCOR's only test pilot for a rocket-powered prototype racing aircraft. He made a total of 52 rocket-powered flights and was the world's only tri-qualified rocket pilot (Space Shuttle, EZ Rocket, Rocket Racer prototype).{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}}