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  • Levitating train from L.A. to Las Vegas gets boost

    06/08/2008 7:09:37 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 8 replies · 131+ views
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans for a levitating train from Las Vegas to Disneyland can move forward under a transportation bill signed by President Bush on Friday that frees up $45 million for the futuristic project. Derided by critics as pie in the sky, the train would use magnetic levitation technology to carry passengers from Disneyland to Las Vegas in well under two hours, traveling at speeds of up to 300 mph. It would be the first MagLev system in the U.S. The money is the largest cash infusion in the project's nearly 20-year history. It will pay for environmental studies...
  • New Mexico Takes Its Spaceport International With a New Name

    07/17/2006 9:51:55 AM PDT · by CedarDave · 22 replies · 358+ views
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | July 17, 2006 | Andrew Webb
    Sporting little more than a small concrete launch pad and a cluster of portable buildings, New Mexico's spaceport is a far cry from NASA's Kennedy Space Center— a 144,000-acre city of buildings, launch pads and runways with its own ZIP code. But spaceport backers are thinking big ... really big. State officials today, while attending a major European aerospace show, plan to announce a sweeping new name that seeks to capitalize on New Mexico's status as home to the country's first hub for commercial space flight and tourism. Introducing: Spaceport America. "This is an international project, it puts New Mexico...