Virgin Galactic dedicates spaceport terminal building
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2011, 9:07 AM ET (1307 GMT)
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic formally dedicated the terminal building that will host its suborbital spaceflights in New Mexico in a ceremony on Monday. The building, formally named the "Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space", will serve as a hangar for Virgin's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spacecraft and WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft as well as its operations center at Spaceport America. The building is the centerpiece of the $209-million spaceport built by the state north of Las Cruces. Monday's ceremony, attended by 150 of Virgin Galactic's 455 customers as well as other dignitaries, featured a captive carry flight of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. Virgin has not set a schedule for when flight operations from the spaceport will begin, but expect to begin powered test flights of SpaceShipTwo from Mojave, California, early next year.
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic formally dedicated the terminal building that will host its suborbital spaceflights in New Mexico in a ceremony on Monday. The building, formally named the "Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space", will serve as a hangar for Virgin's SpaceShipTwo suborbital spacecraft and WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft as well as its operations center at Spaceport America. The building is the centerpiece of the $209-million spaceport built by the state north of Las Cruces. Monday's ceremony, attended by 150 of Virgin Galactic's 455 customers as well as other dignitaries, featured a captive carry flight of WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. Virgin has not set a schedule for when flight operations from the spaceport will begin, but expect to begin powered test flights of SpaceShipTwo from Mojave, California, early next year.
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