News 1st commercial spaceport opens today

[flying coffin]

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/historic-day-in-new-mexico

 

[Loru]

excellent news. I can't afford suborbital flight yet but in future - who knows - anyway it's wonderful news

 

[Sanford]

Good news. For some reason I thought it was going to be in west Texas, but I think I am getting it confused with some other project.

 

[statickid]

way cooler than an airport. I cant wait to sit in spaceport traffic and parking garages!!

 

[T.Neo]

"spaceport"?

Does anyone actually intend to launch vehicles from this facility that will do more than go up to 120 kilometers and come straight back down again?

 

[FADEC]

"spaceport"?

Does anyone actually intend to launch vehicles from this facility that will do more than go up to 120 kilometers and come straight back down again?

That's exactly what I thought when I read "spaceport" opens.

I'm not really enthusiastic on this. It's nice, sure, but not breathtaking if I consider that we are in the year 50 after the first manned space flight.

 

[statickid]

thats still 110km higher than I've been... *sigh*

 

[Jarvitä]

"spaceport"?

Does anyone actually intend to launch vehicles from this facility that will do more than go up to 120 kilometers and come straight back down again?

I don't know if it's officially an "intention", but Branson's plans/ambitions call for the next generation of the SS# line to be an intercontinental ballistic spaceliner.