Spaceport America dedication


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Spaceport America is being built in New Mexico to support companies ranging from Vitgin Galactic, Lockheed Martin and XCOR to smaller outfits like JP Aerospace.

This facility is the one to be used by Virgin Galactic as a hangar and terminal for SpaceShipTwo and its WhiteKnightTwo motheship. The SS2 and WK2 pair shown here are designated Enterprise and Eve, respectively. Customers will not only be passengers looking for adventure but also NASA and private scientists and experiments.

Unpowered SS2,flight tests are now underway, with powered flights to start in early 2012. Commercial operations will commce after that.

Unpowered test flights of Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser orbital spaceplane start next summer under NASA's Commercial Crew Develppment program, also using WK2 as the mothershop. Virgin Galactic and Northrop Grumman are Dream Chaser partners.

Dedication

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ2er0WoU2E

Virgin Galactic mission animatio/promo

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