Video: The world's first spaceport for ships plying the vastness of the Universe (New Mexico, America)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
French physicist Louis de Broglie was convinced that the only problem of our time is whether man will be able to survive his own inventions. Perhaps he was right, because every year humanity expands the horizons of its capabilities. The twentieth century will be remembered for the conquest of space; in the new millennium, people seriously intend to make space walks an everyday occurrence. Apparently, for ships that will plow the vastness of the universe, in US state of New Mexico construction ends the world's first spaceport.
The cost of the shocking project, which became a world sensation, is $ 209 million. Virgin Galactic was not afraid to invest in the world's first spaceport for commercial passenger flights, having concluded a lease agreement for 20 years. In August 2012, the first suborbital flights took place here.
The spaceport has all the necessary infrastructure, it includes: an airfield, launch sites, a terminal and hangars, an emergency response center, and road links are provided here. It is envisaged that tourist rockets, both horizontal takeoff and vertical, can be launched from the spaceport.
The complex is built in the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico. Its official opening took place in 2010, but work on its modernization is still ongoing. It is planned that by 2013 the spaceport will already receive its first visitors. In addition to direct flights, tourists will be able to get acquainted with interactive expositions dedicated to space flights.
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