Just two weeks after the first solo flight of Virgin Galactic's space tourist ship, the company's bigwigs gathered again to celebrate the completion of the two-mile, 200-foot wide runway of the world's first commercial spaceport.
Spaceport America is the world's first facility designed specifically to launch commercial spacecraft. The celebration of its nearly-two-mile-long runway comes less than two weeks after another major step for Virgin Galactic: the first solo glide flight of its space tourism rocket ship. [ABC News]
Its name may make it sound like an amusement park, but Spaceport America
is well on its way to being a real portal to space for the wealthy private citizen. Its construction is being funded by New Mexico taxpayer dollars and commercial space companies; it has already been designated the home of Virgin Galactic's space tourism operations. But the spaceport, located 45 miles outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is able ...
