Virgin Galactic unveiled the interiors of its new New Mexico spaceport, giving the public a glimpse of how the 1st $250,000-ticket tourists will spend their time before boarding suborbital space flights next year
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled the interiors of its new New Mexico spaceport Thursday, giving the public a glimpse of how the first $250,000-ticket tourists will spend their time before boarding suborbital space flights next year.The company’s new digs, which it calls the “Gateway to Space,” are part of the state-run Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico, which also hosts facilities for SpaceX, EXOS Aerospace and other companies.
Within the next few weeks, Virgin’s carrier aircraft will fly out to the company’s test facilities in the Mojave to pick up the company’s spacecraft, the VMSand take it back to New Mexico. Then the company will begin a series of test flights as the company edges its way towards its first commercial flight. When those begin, Virgin Galactic likely will have broken into another frontier, becoming the first publicly-traded space tourism company.
Virgin Galactic currently has reservations for 603 spaceflights and says that it has received $80 million in deposits. The company stopped actively marketing those tickets in 2014, though it plans to begin offering new tickets once commercial space flights are underway, likely for prices higher than $250,000.
Despite the price tag, the company has reason for optimism. It says it received over 2,500 inquiries for reservations after its spacecraft’s first successful flight into space in December 2018. And Whitesides says the unveiling of its New Mexico spaceport is an important milestone to getting those customers into space.
“Each floor developed has a nice story connecting it back to social activity on Earth,” says designer Jeremy Brown. “Then moving through the mission control part of the building with lighter material references there.”Once they’re done waiting, Virgin Galactic customers will climb onboard the. The airplane will fly the spacecraft up to about 50,000 feet, whereupon the spacecraft will detach and launch its rocket into space.
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