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| Permalink View Article Stats (1 comment) Promoted to Headline (H4) on 9/6/11: Phase one of world's first commercial spaceport is now 90% completed - in time for first flights in 2013 By Damien Gayl Quicklink submitted by . . (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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Phase one of the world's first commercial spaceport, which will be the hub for Virgin's consumer spaceflights, is now 90 per cent complete. 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 to nearly two miles long, a futuristic styled terminal hanger, and a dome-shaped Space Operations Centre. |
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