SPACEPORT: NEW MEXICO HAS ONE
Oct. 20th, 2011 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogYou can thank Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic for that.
It's called Spaceport America. And It looks like this.
Ha ha. No, that’s just the concept art. It actually it looks like this.
Which isn’t quite as whiz-bang. But it could be worse.
And c’mon, hey, spaceport.
Granted, we’re only talking suborbital flights that won’t even start until at least 2013. And a ticket will cost you $200k for a 2.5 hour flight. (Insert “We are the 1%” joke here.) But the Private Space Age was never going to start off cheap, let alone with moon tourism.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see if Spaceport America and Virgin Galactic end up in Branson’s “Win” or “Fail” pile.
Here to go,
This is dF
It's called Spaceport America. And It looks like this.
Ha ha. No, that’s just the concept art. It actually it looks like this.
Which isn’t quite as whiz-bang. But it could be worse.
And c’mon, hey, spaceport.
Granted, we’re only talking suborbital flights that won’t even start until at least 2013. And a ticket will cost you $200k for a 2.5 hour flight. (Insert “We are the 1%” joke here.) But the Private Space Age was never going to start off cheap, let alone with moon tourism.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see if Spaceport America and Virgin Galactic end up in Branson’s “Win” or “Fail” pile.
Here to go,
This is dF
