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- russianmike, on 06/18/2009, -1/+148MULTIPASS!
- inactive, on 06/17/2009, -2/+130Can't wait to go to one of these in my next life.
- inactive, on 06/18/2009, -0/+121Maybe you've already said that about airports or train stations.
- BigLou, on 06/17/2009, -2/+111Wow, they could have made it look like a standard airport, but they really went the extra step and made it look just as futuristic as the premise. It almost looks like the small fighter ships from Independence Day.
Hopefully, in the future, these will be a standard, affordable place for middle-America to venture to. - BossKey, on 06/18/2009, -3/+83You will never see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
- kingofinternet, on 06/17/2009, -10/+67virgin camel toe.
- Chairboy, on 06/18/2009, -5/+60Inaccurate title. The Mojave Spaceport came before this:
http://www.mojaveairport.com/
I was there and saw the first non-government flight into space, it was great. So, no. Not first spaceport.
kthxbai - linagee, on 06/18/2009, -0/+53Sir, are you classified as human?
Negative, I'm a meat popsicle. - copypastry, on 06/18/2009, -2/+46But does it have a cantina?
- hokeywhiteboy, on 06/18/2009, -0/+44Yeah, multipass, she knows it's a multipass!
- PacificStandard, on 06/18/2009, -1/+37"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds."
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 - hokeywhiteboy, on 06/18/2009, -0/+36MUL-TI-PASS!
- Suilenroc, on 06/18/2009, -0/+31As I posted earlier, this isn't a government building. It's being funded by Lockheed, Virgin, and others. Read their site.
- jordanlgta, on 06/18/2009, -6/+35Good luck trying to afford two seats in your next life...because in your next life you are an obese woman...
- cl2yp71c, on 06/18/2009, -2/+29I see what you did there.
- Hu99, on 06/18/2009, -1/+27Nice existential twist, tedrolland2.
- feshmania, on 06/18/2009, -0/+24how is this a waste? what if in the next 50 years space travel becomes a big business? then is it a waste of tax payer dollars to be ahead of the curve? Saying a brand new technology (or technological concept in this case) is a waste is proven to make you a moron...just look at how people treated computers back in the day.
Dummy. - klipseracer, on 06/18/2009, -0/+22That was a funny line. The whole movie was great.
- cl2yp71c, on 06/18/2009, -0/+21They should've went with Roswell for irony.
- kalikao, on 06/18/2009, -1/+17Now we just need a phallic shaped tower to direct traffic.
- Duskraven, on 06/18/2009, -0/+16LOL @ lobsteroctober. Commercial venture =/= Government funded. Get an education.
- oyflaaaayvin, on 06/18/2009, -0/+16I'm sure Branson is the main source of its capital, not bailout money or taxpayers' dollars.
- cyrix, on 06/18/2009, -0/+15You're Corbin Dallas?
- solid12345, on 06/18/2009, -0/+13My friend doesn't like you...I don't like you either!
- RuthlessPirate, on 06/18/2009, -0/+13Great. Now I have the Mos Eisley cantina song stuck in my head. You know the one.
- umdigger, on 06/18/2009, -0/+13These are plane based space craft, not rocket. So the cost of fuel is much different and doesn't have nearly the impact that our current Atlas, Delta, and Shuttle rockets have.
Plus think about the politics involved with building this in a different country, it's really not that hard to figure out why they didn't do it. - Suilenroc, on 06/18/2009, -0/+12This is a private venture, so no tax dollars will be spent. It's funded by Virgin Galactic, Lockheed Martin, the X-Prize Commission, and some others.
- cl2yp71c, on 06/18/2009, -4/+16Can't wait to dock in there. ;-)
- zerton, on 06/18/2009, -1/+13i think they might be forgetting Cape Canaveral, that place in Guyana, and a place in the Ukraine
- Killbot2015, on 06/18/2009, -0/+11Its going to look exactly like that...
- bazzarr, on 06/18/2009, -0/+11Do the droids have to wait outside?
- walruspanzer, on 06/18/2009, -1/+12I'm not the biggest Obama fan either but I do sincerely doubt that the design, planning and logistics phase, and search for funding all for such a huge project happened in the last 100 or so days.
- oyflaaaayvin, on 06/18/2009, -0/+11Also, it's only expected to cost $100-120 million, which doesn't put a huge dent in your wallet when you're a billionaire.
http://www.spaceportamerica.com/images/pdf/Spacepo ... - jamh, on 06/18/2009, -0/+11New Mexico: first ever commercial spaceport
Iowa: Strawberry Point is the home of the world's largest strawberry - flyingengineer, on 06/18/2009, -0/+10I landed there a couple of years ago while flying a job over nearby Trona, Ca...... it says it right on a sign just below the control tower "America's First Inland Spaceport" - it wasn't exactly a hopping tourist place but has a lot of interesting history if you're an aviation buff
- PunkVaulter, on 06/18/2009, -0/+10You just watch yourself, we're wanted men. I have the death sentence on 12 systems.
- wreckosaurus, on 06/18/2009, -1/+11Need more vespene gas
- thatashguy, on 06/18/2009, -0/+9Someone doesn't know how to use the internet, do they?
- Jimbob200, on 06/18/2009, -1/+10Man, to go to space...
- dlan4327, on 06/18/2009, -0/+9Build it and they will come.
- walruspanzer, on 06/18/2009, -0/+9Most large airports are amazing structures. This spaceport looks pretty awesome.
- bone625, on 06/18/2009, -1/+9Bzzz! BZzzzz! BZZZZ!
- bazzarr, on 06/18/2009, -0/+8That rises and retracts repeatedly into the center of the building.
- PunkVaulter, on 06/18/2009, -0/+8You'll be dead!
- PixelMagic, on 06/18/2009, -0/+8I'll be careful.
- SanFranMan, on 06/18/2009, -0/+8Who parked their giant robot manta ray in the parking lot?
- vagrantwade, on 06/18/2009, -0/+8It's a private company...it has nothing to do with taxes...
- vagrantwade, on 06/18/2009, -2/+10Proud that is has so much unwanted desert space that they could have this there? Odd.
- WilliamAdama, on 06/18/2009, -0/+7how old is *****?
- boombye, on 06/18/2009, -0/+7Hey Lobster, it's spelled "You're" and not "Your", you idiot.
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