![]() ![]() ![]() Spaceport is one of eleven similar FAA-licensed facilities in the USA, and bus tours depart from a visitors’ center 28 miles away in a town called Truth or Consequences.īesides the Jetsons-like mirage in the desert, the most exciting feature for visitors is the chance to see what it feels like to blast off. "So we have what you call a horizontal area, where you take off like an airplane, and that would be Virgin Galactic, or we have a vertical launch area where you take off straight up,” Anderson says. The major tenants of Spaceport, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX, have recently had setbacks due to high profile crashes, making the $219 million facility look much like a futuristic ghost town. “That's what we built Spaceport America, to look like the future.” “Someday we are all going to travel point-to-point in space, either on the Earth point to point, or we might go to the moon, or we might go to Mars or something like that,” says Chris Anderson, CEO of Spaceport America. Wishful thinking, but who hasn’t thought about a trip that is out of this world? Visiting Spaceport America, in the southern New Mexico desert, can bring you closer to launching your dream of space travel.
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