<![CDATA[Gizmodo: spaceport]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: spaceport]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/spaceport http://gizmodo.com/tag/spaceport <![CDATA[World's First Spaceport Designed, Construction Starts 2008]]> You may remember that Virgin Galactic planned to build a Spaceport in New Mexico. Well, a winning design has now been chosen, and construction on the 100,000-square-foot facility is set to start in 2008. Is it just me, or does "spaceport" sound a little bit too sci-fi?

The whole thing is expected to cost a pretty reasonable $31 million, which the company will quickly recoup, no doubt. The SpaceShipTwo and its carrier craft, White Knight Two, will be completed in 2008 as well, so the company is well on its way to offering cheap cheaper space flights. [Space]

]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=296464&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Mexico to Build a Spaceport for Space Tourism]]> Apparently space travel for the common man is closer than we thought, at least according to one county in New Mexico. They've just approved a tax meant to pay for a spaceport, so I guess that means there's a need for a spaceport, right?

For the low, low price of $198 million, they'll build a spaceport that Virgin Galactic madman Richard Branson will use to launch rich people into space for $200,000 a pop. Apparently this will be happening in a mere two years, so those New Mexicans had better start collecting those taxes ASAP. –Adam Frucci

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