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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."
Can they get a killer whale to the moon?
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
...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)
Dibs on being the first to say:
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
And in 30 years the success of he spaceport will have launched an industrious little town surrounding it, and then developers will come in and build houses right next to it, and people will move in, and complain about the noise, and get the spaceport successfully shut down.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.