Phase one of world’s first commercial spaceport in America is 90% complete [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Mumbai Mirror

Phase one of world’s first commercial spaceport in America is 90% complete
Posted On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 at 02:03:43 AM

New Mexico Phase one of the world's first commercial spaceport, the hub for Virgin's consumer spaceflights, is now 90 per cent complete.

The Daily Mail reports that the 1,800-acre Spaceport America site, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is the home base for Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's most ambitious business venture yet.

It already boasts a runway stretching nearly two miles long, a futuristic styled terminal hanger, and a dome-shaped Space Operations Centre.

The work is now just months away from completion, according to a spaceport spokesman, and is set to be done by the end of the year, well in time for the first expected Virgin Galactic spaceflights in 2013.





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