Philippe Starck to design Virgin Galactic spaceport

The Register ^ | 12/14/05 | Lester Haines

[KevinDavis]

French designer Phillipe Starck has drawn up plans for the world's first spaceport - the $225m Virgin Galactic facility coming soon to a patch of New Mexico wasteland.

According to the Guardian, Virgin's Richard Branson has inked a deal with the New Mexico authorities to construct the spaceport from which Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne will blast punters to 70 miles above the Earth for six minutes of weighlessness during a three-and-a-half hour flight.

[RTINSC]

You first.

[TheRobb7]

"The virgin galactic spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of puriy and chastity. We must be cautious."

[neodad]

SpaceShipOne will blast punters to 70 miles above the Earth for six minutes of weighlessness during a three-and-a-half hour flight

Now that's NFL hangtime!

[longtermmemmory]

I see one big bill board for adds.

I see a mickey with a finger pointing that passengers must be "this high".

and

since a french man is making it, I see a very high rudeness index.

[org.whodat]

70 miles above the Earth

They should put someone in jail for calling this space flight. Should be at least one time around the earth.

[vikingd00d]

Some of his previous work..

more here: Ugly Architecture

[Crazieman]

Multiple people going up to come down and tell about it might actually start pushing space flight again.

[Kirkwood]

[Dreagon]

I'm a huge fan of space flight, but are they honestly going to build a 225 million dollar facility for a craft that can't even achieve orbit?
Surely there is more to it than that.

[Reaganesque]

The spaceport may not be much to look at but the band in the bar rocks!

[RTINSC]

You get extra peanuts..