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Spaceport Go-ahead Up To Voters PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 02 April 2007
It seems the New Mexico space port venture is now in the hands of the voters. A referendum as been called for the people of Las Cruces on the proposal to raise the county sales tax in return for hosting the world's first all-commercial spaceport.

If the referndum goes through, a desert valley used by ranchers could become home to Spaceport America where "space tourists" come from destinations halfway around the world in order to get a chance to fly into space.

As previously reported on BuyMeToTheStars, Virgin Galactic have signed a 20-year lease to use Spaceport America - with the intention of launchig up to three 2-hour flights a day. The Virgin Group 's top resort developer has been in New Mexico scouting out sites for an exclusive resort complex for the paying astronauts.

New Mexico is not alone in wanting to develop a spaceport. It turns out that Texas, California, Florida and Virginia are also working on launching customers into space. However Spaceport America is unique in that it is being entirely constructed from the ground up solely for space tourism, whereas the other projects are mainly based on military bases.

We'll keep you appraised of the referendum situation here on BMTTS. Watch this space!
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