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Spaceport Singapore
FleaPlus writes "In addition to last week's news of a spaceport in the UAE, Space Adventures has announced that they will also be building a spaceport in Singapore by 2009. The spaceport will offer flights on a variety of vehicles, such as a Russian-built suborbital spaceplane, fighter jets, and Vomit Comet-style weightless parabolas. Space Adventures will be competing with other fully-funded suborbital spaceflight companies, such as Virgin Galactic and Rocketplane."
Yeah, but you can't chew gum and spacewalk at the same time from the Singapore spaceport....
Here's to losing my Karma Bonus again....
If Singapore canes people for spitting in the subway, what are they going to do when you vomit on a airplane, even if it is in zero-gee.
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No, they announced prospective plans about Florida before this annoucement.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article
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If all of these people are offering sub-orbital flights, who are the customers?
At least so long as these are just joyrides, they remain too expensive to attract a sustainable base.
And I have a hard time seeing business trips really needing that much speed, either, not when you could videoconference for several magnitudes smaller.
Time-sensitive cargo, like organs for transplantation, maybe. But that's still a rich person's game. And the amount of time it takes on the ground before and after hitting a hub city still make it quite unlikely.