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PICTURE: First images of Spaceport America revealed
www.flightglobal.com ^
| 04/09/07
| Rob Coppinger
Posted on 09/12/2007 3:53:49 PM PDT by Freeport
The first images of New Mexico's Spaceport America have been released showing the expected design for the 9,290 square metre (100,000sq foot) facility that could see the first commercial suborbital flights by 2010.
The terminal and hangar facility are projected to cost about $31 million and will include suborbital tourism company Virgin Galactic’s pre-flight and post-flight training facilities and lounges, as well as the maintenance hangar for the two White Knight II carrier aircraft and five SpaceShipTwo vehicles.
With spaceport construction expected to cost $198 million and to start in 2008, with completion by 2010, the port will host the headquarters of Virgin Galactic and the New Mexico Space Authority (NMSA).
(Excerpt) Read more at flightglobal.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Technical; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: aerospace; spaceportamerica; virgingalactic
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The only major problem with this approach is that no one would be outside looking at wall drawings in that heat!
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:53:53 PM PDT
by
Freeport
To: Freeport
Freud would have a conniption...........
2
posted on
09/12/2007 3:54:54 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
To: Freeport
I keep expecting a big ole semi tractor to back into it and haul it away.
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:56:17 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: Freeport
Looks rather vulvar—uh, vulgar.
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:56:26 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:57:41 PM PDT
by
patton
(Congress would lose money running a brothel.)
To: Freeport
If you build it, they will come...
Zzz zzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzz zzzz zzzzz zzzzzzz zzzzzzzzzzzz zzzz zzzzz
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:57:56 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
To: Freeport
A toilet seat for a main terminal? Not expecting much traffic are we?
A toilet seat?
Why not a bidet?
Or a 57 caddy with those wing thingies of the rear fender?
Is this the same goofball who designed the Clinton library?
A toilet seat?
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:58:20 PM PDT
by
TexanToTheCore
(If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
To: Red Badger
Deloris?
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:59:33 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: aruanan
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posted on
09/12/2007 3:59:57 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
To: TexanToTheCore
Nah, the Clinton Library had wheels. (didn’t it?)
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posted on
09/12/2007 4:00:53 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
To: Freeport
At least the roof is not PINK!
Why do people have to bring sex into everything?
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posted on
09/12/2007 4:01:05 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: aruanan
I think that was the point of ‘Virgin’ approval.
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posted on
09/12/2007 4:01:27 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support. Defend life support for others in the womb.)
To: Freeport; Millee; carlr; Maximus of Texas; EX52D; StephenTX; wallcrawlr; Xenalyte; Tatze; ...
Okay, okay...
I know it has been a while since I was... eh... with a lady...
But doesn't this photo... 
leave little to the imagination?
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posted on
09/12/2007 4:02:16 PM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Freeport
All Aboard for the Spindrift!!!!
Hopefully we won't end up in:
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posted on
09/12/2007 4:02:42 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
("Paint me something patriotic, like, The Confederate Flag!" - Wolf, from "Blackboard Jumble")
To: Freeport
To: Freeport
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posted on
09/12/2007 4:04:03 PM PDT
by
DejaJude
To: Freeport
To: Freeport
You men eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken, than any man ever seen, yeah, yeah
I'm a back door man, the men don't know
But the little girl understand
just yuck.
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posted on
09/12/2007 4:04:26 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
To: Freeport
Looks like that thing in Mecca the splodeydopes like so much. At any rate, you can be sure Slick Willie will pick up a souvenir model to hold his cigars.
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posted on
09/12/2007 4:04:32 PM PDT
by
WildcatClan
(Duncan Hunter '08 -)
To: Freeport
Well, if I ever quit laughing and decide to travel to it, there is the obvious problem. Where are the parking ramps?
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posted on
09/12/2007 4:05:57 PM PDT
by
guppas
(Kick their ass -- Take their gas!)
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