Mar 27 2007
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Virgin Galactic
This just in from Las Cruces, New Mexico: NM officials have set the groundwork to lease part of its commercial spaceport to Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, as a base for a planned space-tourism company. Indeed, Branson’s goal is for Virgin Galactic to become the first company to provide sub-orbital flights to the public. Spaceport America, as the New Mexico-based location is known, launched a rocket from a temporary pad last autumn, and authorities expect to complete the $198 Million facility in late 2009 or early 2010.
Click here for more details.
Granted, there’s no UFO link here; but I found it kind of ironic that human space tourists may one day be setting off from the same state where, perhaps, alien tourists crashed 60 years ago!
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March 27th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Those Damn New Mexicans! Someone is always trying to copy off of us inoventive Oklahomans.
We gave the world stop signs, parking meters, and shopping carts. Now we will be the first state to reap the rewards of ‘Space Tourism.’
The Oklahoma Spaceport
-Jason
March 28th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Nick:
If only we knew the names of the aliens who crashed their craft that fateful day, we could lobby for the facility to be named after them. All joking aside, if the stories of UFOs following many of the NASA missions are true, this has the potential of being a major thorn in the government’s side. Granted it will be a few years before any civilians are touring space, but those who officially deny UFOs exist can’t be too happy with the idea of dozens of tourist with cameras and video recorders, capturing on film objects flying around in suborbital space.
Of course this could also be connected with the preparation of disclosure about UFOs. In that case the potential to see UFOs on such a flight might become part of this companies marketing campaign.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Seein:
That’s an interesting scenario - that if space does become accessible to one and all, then maybe we may get a much better picture of the “unknowns” that may be up there, and that right now we only get snippets of stories on.
I suppose they could name the space port after the Roswell aliens, but the “Captain Zzbobzak and Commander Xxovog Space Port” just doesn’t sound right somehow…
