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Spaceport America
Spaceport America, proclaimed the first spaceport in the world like giant moths with rounded wings on the background of the arid, reddish-brown area of southern new Mexico. When viewed from the East open glass facade, interesting shape, high steel arches and white interior. Sublime architecture is consistent with the high idea that this complex is designed to serve – to be a launching pad for commercial space flights and the heyday of the second space age.
The project to cost $209 million has attracted international attention because of its bold purpose, stunning architecture and the fact that it is a basis the world's first commercial passenger space company, Virgin Galactic, which signed a 20-year lease and has already sent 12 suborbital flights beginning in August 2012.
Spaceport America also has basic operational infrastructure such as an airfield, launch pads, terminal and hangar, emergency response systems, and lead the way. The platform will be capable of launching both vertical and horizontal launch vehicles that will open the era of space tourism for interested visitors. The complex is located in the desert of Jornada del Muerto in new Mexico, United States, West of the famous white Sands and is approximately 140 km North of El Paso. Form seamlessly blends into the low-lying landscape, to extract the maximum amount of heat, and partly to protect the building from extreme climate of new Mexico. The maximum image here is used the natural daylight coming through the Windows in the roof.
To say that this place remotely and in isolation, it may say nothing. The substation is set for continuous electricity supply, a special dug wells and sewer system. The spaceport will be a chic restaurant, but now the nearest place to buy food is at a distance of more than 20 miles. Although Spaceport America officially opened in 2010, the surrounding infrastructure is scheduled to end only in 2013.
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The project to cost $209 million has attracted international attention because of its bold purpose, stunning architecture and the fact that it is a basis the world's first commercial passenger space company, Virgin Galactic, which signed a 20-year lease and has already sent 12 suborbital flights beginning in August 2012.
Spaceport America also has basic operational infrastructure such as an airfield, launch pads, terminal and hangar, emergency response systems, and lead the way. The platform will be capable of launching both vertical and horizontal launch vehicles that will open the era of space tourism for interested visitors. The complex is located in the desert of Jornada del Muerto in new Mexico, United States, West of the famous white Sands and is approximately 140 km North of El Paso. Form seamlessly blends into the low-lying landscape, to extract the maximum amount of heat, and partly to protect the building from extreme climate of new Mexico. The maximum image here is used the natural daylight coming through the Windows in the roof.
To say that this place remotely and in isolation, it may say nothing. The substation is set for continuous electricity supply, a special dug wells and sewer system. The spaceport will be a chic restaurant, but now the nearest place to buy food is at a distance of more than 20 miles. Although Spaceport America officially opened in 2010, the surrounding infrastructure is scheduled to end only in 2013.
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