Spaceport America Site in New Mexico - stock photo

"Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA - June 10, 2011: Construction of the basic infrastructure of Spaceport America in southern New Mexico was nearing completion in June 2011. The new commercial facility is operated by the New Mexico Spaceport America Authority, based in Las Cruces. Testing of suborbital space vehicles already has taken place at the remote site 45 miles north of Las Cruces. The showcase building at Spaceport America will be a unique, low profile hangar (now under construction) that itself is shaped like a spacecraft as depicted in this sign. The hangar has been leased for 20 years to Virgin Galactic owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, who already has a waiting list of several hundred future astronauts willing to pay $200,000 each to be launched into suborbit from this site. Launches of vehicles carrying space tourists are expected to begin in the near future."
"Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA - June 10, 2011: Construction of the basic infrastructure of Spaceport America in southern New Mexico was nearing completion in June 2011. The new commercial facility is operated by the New Mexico Spaceport America Authority, based in Las Cruces. Testing of suborbital space vehicles already has taken place at the remote site 45 miles north of Las Cruces. The showcase building at Spaceport America will be a unique, low profile hangar (now under construction) that itself is shaped like a spacecraft as depicted in this sign. The hangar has been leased for 20 years to Virgin Galactic owned by British billionaire Richard Branson, who already has a waiting list of several hundred future astronauts willing to pay $200,000 each to be launched into suborbit from this site. Launches of vehicles carrying space tourists are expected to begin in the near future."
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