Inside the worlds first tourist spaceport.

I found this article which has some new images of what Branson's new Virgin Galactic spaceport will look like.
There are some great images.
Airspoon added this story a few days ago, but these images are new and not linked to that thread.

IMAGES of the remote New Mexico spaceport built to house the world's first "tourist" spaceship by Virgin Galactic have been revealed.

In pictures: The new spaceport

Sir Richard Branson has marked the completion of the main runway at Spaceport America, near the town of Las Cruces where the Virgin Galactic project is based.

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There is also a video in the article.

Here are some of the cool images of what the Spaceport may look like.
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Tickets for SpaceShipTwo cost $US200,000 ($202,000). For the price travellers get two half-hours flights, with about five minutes of weightlessness.

I better start saving.


I get tingles just think that in a generation or two, space travel will probably be as ordinary as public transport.

reply to post by atlasastro


I can't wait until they start sending folks up regularly!

Also the second pic looks kind of like those pulsating things floating about in space, sort of a disc with a section cut out...

reply to post by Big Raging Loner


I can't wait either.
It will be fun to see the video's that get loaded to youtube and to see wether they generate as much interest as the STS video's do.


It does look similar of those STS circles.
Thanks for the reply.
Here are some more images.
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I wonder if they are looking for Air Stewards?


Imagine that for a job.

"Attention passengers, you may now unfasten your seat belts, and float about the cabin."

reply to post by atlasastro


If I win the Lotto, I'm saving 200,000 for the trip to space.
I like the first picture, reminds me of a manta-ray.

Cheers
Brady

reply to post by GetRadNZ


If you win lotto, um....can you take me.....please.
Pretty please.



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Originally posted by atlasastro
I found this article which has some new images of what Branson's new Virgin Galactic spaceport will look like.
There are some great images.
Airspoon added this story a few days ago, but these images are new and not linked to that thread.

IMAGES of the remote New Mexico spaceport built to house the world's first "tourist" spaceship by Virgin Galactic have been revealed.

In pictures: The new spaceport

Sir Richard Branson has marked the completion of the main runway at Spaceport America, near the town of Las Cruces where the Virgin Galactic project is based.

Image Source
There is also a video in the article.

Here are some of the cool images of what the Spaceport may look like.
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/497b472b4cf4.jpg[/atsimg]

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/a2279ed79588.jpg[/atsimg]

atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/282e54017082.jpg[/atsimg]

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/d1482640dcb8.jpg[/atsimg]

Tickets for SpaceShipTwo cost $US200,000 ($202,000). For the price travellers get two half-hours flights, with about five minutes of weightlessness.

I better start saving.

I get tingles just think that in a generation or two, space travel will probably be as ordinary as public transport.

edit on 25/10/10 by atlasastro because: (no reason given)

This 'Spaceport' looks somewhat too mediocre when compared to Spaceports in Sci-fi stories

reply to post by atlasastro


For sure man!
IF, I win the lotto

Cheers
Brady

reply to post by atlasastro

Tiny. Like the airports they used to build before commercial aviation went mass-market.

Don't get me wrong. I've always preferred tiny airports to big ones. A lot of my adventures have begun or ended at one.

Whoever designed that lifting vehicle, by the way, was clearly inspired by the Lockheed Super Constellation.

Oh the nostalgia.

Originally posted by Astyanax
reply to post by atlasastro

 

Tiny. Like the airports they used to build before commercial aviation went mass-market.

Considering the initial price per passenger, I doubt they need terminals like Heathrow or Dubai.

Don't get me wrong. I've always preferred tiny airports to big ones. A lot of my adventures have begun or ended at one.

Same here. Small Airports can be extremely uncomplicated, and extremely scary.
I guess you have travelled in the third world, too!

Whoever designed that lifting vehicle, by the way, was clearly inspired by the Lockheed Super Constellation.

Oh the nostalgia.

It was designed by Burt Rutan, Scaled Composite who are in partnership with Virgin Galactic in founding The Spaceship Company(TSC).
Ring any bells.



Thanks for dropping by Asty.

reply to post by masonicon


Maybe because they are restricted by the physical laws of reality?
Something Science Fiction does not have to adhere too, at all times.

One day my friend, we will all have our own x-wings, that we can park at Federation space stations.

reply to post by GetRadNZ


Thanks bro.
You are now on my friends list.


Just U2U me when you win mate. Cheers.

Is it just me, or does this spaceport look like a certain part of female anatomy? Somewhat tongue in cheek, but really? Is there some reason for this design that I'm not seeing....?

Wish I had the dough for a trip....maybe some day (and maybe when I'm older, it will be cheaper, and safer, etc.)

reply to post by atlasastro

The article and pictures just conjured up some sort of dream-like fantasy world for me. I wish it lasted longer than 5 minutes but thanks anyway.

reply to post by Gazrok

Yes, and it's very appropriate. A spaceship and a womb have a lot in common.

*

atlasastro, I know who Bert Rutan is. Maybe one day he will be as famous as Kelly Johnson.

You can put that tongue of yours back in now.

reply to post by Astyanax

You can put that tongue of yours back in now.

You always make my tongue hang out Asty.

As for Kelly Johnson.

edit on 26/10/10 by Astyanax because: of third world travels, I mean travails.

See! You did it again.

Take care.

reply to post by Three_moons

Oh! Wistfulness.

I know what you mean my friend.
One day, it won't be just a day dream inspired by concepts or images like the OP.
This is just how it all starts.
And it starts with the word expensive!


Take care.

reply to post by Gazrok


No.
And there is nothing phallic about space rockets either.
And there is nothing suggestive about a rocket docking at the spaceport, the spaceport that doesn't look like a certain part of the female anatomy.

I bet Branson loves the design, though.
After all, it is a Virgin Spaceport.