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Virgin Galactic to Build Space Port in New Mexico

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the area-fifty-two dept.

aapold writes "Virgin Galactic today announced plans to build a $225 million space port in southern New Mexico. Richard Branson will meet with governor Bill Richardson Wednesday to unveil the plans. Virgin Galactic is the company leveraging Spaceship One which, as reported by Slashdot, claimed the Ansari X prize for commercial space flight."

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  1. Hmm by TallMatthew · · Score: 3, Funny
    Virgin Galactic said it had chosen New Mexico as the site for its headquarters because of its steady climate, free airspace, low population density and high altitude. All those factors can significantly reduce the cost of the space flight program.

    Low population density significantly reduces the cost of the space flight program? I guess they're assuming there will be some bourgeois shrapnel flying around.

    I wonder what the road sign looks like that warns against burning appendages falling from the sky.

  2. Awesome by iamdrscience · · Score: 4, Funny
    The spaceport, to be located some 25 miles south of the town of Truth or Consequences
    That's got to be one of the best names for a town ever. Right up there with Yeehaw Junction, Florida and Ding Dong, Texas.
  3. Strategic location by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Think of all the money they'll save hiring undocumented workers.

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  4. You are absolutely correct, by m93 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried putting one in my town on SimCity, and it did nothing but cause problems.

  5. Re:and in a few months by dylan_- · · Score: 3, Funny
    that is on the equator, facing east, and with good infrastructure around
    Damn! All the areas I have on the equator, with good infrastructure, are facing west!
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  6. Re:Exciting times by yotto · · Score: 3, Funny

    *Right now, we have neither the ability to cause significant pollution, nor the capability to avoid it, so it's doubly moot.*

    Until a paperclip tears through your passenger cabin at 10km/s

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