First Look At New Mexico's Space Terminal

Raver32 sends us to space.com for first light on the design of New Mexico's Spaceport America. Quoting: "The winning design is the work of URS Corporation — a large design and engineering enterprise — teamed with Foster + Partners of the United Kingdom, a group with extensive experience in crafting airport buildings. When the 100,000 square-foot facility is completed — the centerpiece of the world's first, purpose-built, commercial spaceport — the structures will serve as the primary operating base for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic suborbital spaceliner, and also as the headquarters for the New Mexico Spaceport Authority."

Comments

Anybody else

[sirknz]

Get the mental image of it looking like a run down backwater airport in about 20 years time?

Re:Anybody else

[sjf]

Am I the only one who thinks that the spaceport looks like the Millenium Falcon ?

Wisconsin?

[NotQuiteReal]

Isn't farther south better? Equatorial ideal, for launching spacecraft?

Of course if you don't plan on achieving orbit maybe it doesn't matter.

IANARS