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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."
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Can it charge the yamatto cannons on my Battle Cruisers?
Spaceports instead of airports?! Where the hell is my flying car?! It's the 21st Century for God sake! I was promised flying cars!
The game.
Get the mental image of it looking like a run down backwater airport in about 20 years time?
Can they get a killer whale to the moon?
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
I initially read the headline as "First Look at Mexico's New Space Terminal" and I immediately thought of the South Park episode where they send the whale to the moon. God, what a great episode. /Si, fly.
That is a strange looking plane in the second 'photo' - is this just an artists impression or is that how they will be designed?
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I thought it said "First look at Mexico's Space Terminal". While clearly I have nothing against Mexico, it seemed like a poor placement of resources considering the widespread poverty. All's clear now, thank you.
We figured out a long time ago that it's easier to elect seven judges than to elect 132 legislators.
"...the centerpiece of the world's first, purpose-built, commercial spaceport"
I take it whomever spit out that little piece of wishful marketing spin never visited the 'Nazca Lines' on the Plains de' Peru, eh, Bunky?
Am I the only one who thinks their spaceport looks a little too much like Han Solo's ship?
"What a piece of junk!"
"She made not look like much, kid, but she's got it where it counts. I made a lot of special modifications myself, but if you don't mind, we're in a bit of a hurrry, so..."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04, @08:20AM (#20462703)
it's both a fairytail & whoreabull malady @once?
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many of US never look up (or ever really see anything)
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by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03, @09:34PM
too busy getting somewhere? we could still afford to pay attention, as it is cost effective, & time efficient.
it's not as though we weren't already being treated to more misinformation than we could ever disbelieve.
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by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01, @09:35AM (#20433195)
it's only a matter of time/space/circumstance.
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mynuts won 'off t(r)opic'???
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30, @10:22AM (#20411119)
eye gas you could call this 'weather'?
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be careful, the whack(off)job in the next compartment may be a high RANKing corepirate nazi official.
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whoreabull corepirate nazi felons planning trips
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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01, @12:13PM (#20072457)
in orbit perhaps? we wouldn't want to be within 500 miles of the naykid furor at this power point.
better days ahead?
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for many of US, the only way out is up.
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When did that happen? Well, I guess since they have Roswell, it makes sense.
The world is my oyster. That's why it's always in a stew.
"Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
...the planned gardens around the disk-like space terminal will be exquisite, keeping dozens of local workers employed on a daily basis.
(yeah, I know I'm going to hell for that one)
Is it achieving real space flight?
Trying to get the russian share of billionaires wanting to go to space.
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
"I only speak the truth"
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Did anyone else read that as Mexico's New Space Terminal?
I guess we're not sending chihuahuas and tacos into space quite yet.
the first ever lost space luggage arrived at the facility today.
I wonder if I can trade in some Cardassian Yamak sauce for a space flight, say 45 kilograms of it for a one way ticket to space? It's high in sugar content though. (I think they are coming out with the sugar-free version though. Perhaps that will be worth more.)
That actually looks half decent. They got the 'ooo fancy' look down at any rate, we'll see about functionality. Still, it's more than NASA's done in the past 20 years. :P A lot of you are posting as if it were a small backwater project because it's based in new mexico, but if you think about it an isolated location is ideal for such an installment. If something goes wrong there is lots of big empty desert to crash into, no windows to break if for some reason you had to go supersonic speeds near the ground, and I imagine the noise level created as suborbital planes hit the boosters would not be appreciated in a densely populated area. Give this place half a chance and it might turn out pretty sweet!
Weaksauce as they say...
Of course if you don't plan on achieving orbit maybe it doesn't matter.
IANARS
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Yes! In fact, the station's own weaponry was tested last night, and amazed observers report that plasma bolts from the main ray gun reached deep into Nevada.
The new spaceport will be a huge boon to Richard Branson's standing (and bragging rights) in billionaire circles, perhaps finally overshadowing the horrible and humiliating defeat he suffered in the "balloon around the world" race, at the hands of Steve Fossett.
At a spaceport you better damnwell have windows on the roof so I can see the launch. Looked all closed-in like a normal airport.
I would like to ask a couple questions about the spaceport:
1. Red or Green?
2. You want an egg on that?
Thank You
I understand that design inspiration can come from a variety of places, often from memories not directly associated with the process. Perhaps the architects should stay away from hospitals...
...it looks like an overblown bedpan.
Is one of our fifty missing? This is New Mexico.
What are you from Texas or something? New Mexico unemployment is at an all-time low. We have "issues" here but we also host a booming high-tech industry. Illiteracy seems to be much more of an issue where ever you are. Ever been here? Sheesh!
The interior shot of the spaceport reminds me of a Jim Burns painting.
If we were really serious about lowering launch costs, we would be pouring money into researching these. But we're not. (Too easy to make money off the government doing what we're doing now.)
steadily fucking Leeson and
I mean...quite a lot of the country lives pretty close to New Mexico, e.g. in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Texas.
It's a bit of a haul from the East Coast, I guess. But if you're forking out $200,000 for a once in a lifetime ride I can't see the extra $500 airfare from the Sprawl making you blink.
that plane has completely missed the runway.
VERITAS VOS LIBERABIT
Am I the only one who noticed that this looks like a toliet seat or bed pan ?
forgivness is easier to get than permission
Is the spaceport inside the giant steel vagina?
The New Mexico Spaceport will be called 'Mos Eisely'
Finally I've got a place to park the Millenium Falcon when I need to run out to Toshii station and pick up power converters.
What about 11km high launch towers with electromagnetic rails on the inside, powered by nuclear power plants?
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
Even if an 11km-high tower were feasible (given that it would be 20 times the tallest tower ever built) and sufficient (given that reaching escape velocity within 11km would require a steel-crushing, organ-liquefying 560 Gs of acceleration), there's still the fact that you'd end up traveling at orbital velocity at an altitude where the air still has fully 1/5 of its sea-level density. Result: fireball.
Patrick Doyle
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