Spaceport America opens the gates

And Spaceport ' America' may be just the first of its kind, if you invested in ' America ' itself justify the investment. The initiative belongs to the construction of the spaceport Virgin Galactic ( engaged in the development and construction of the revolutionary and technological equipment), which is owned by billionaire Richard Branson (Richard Branson). As time he has invested $ 300 million to the project.

The competition is not the construction of Spaceport won the famous British company ' Foster and Partners ' (Foster partners), which is known for his work on advanced projects, daring, especially in the construction of airports.



The area of ​​' America ' will be 10 square kilometers, the project also focuses on the use of multiple 'green' solutions - from conventional solar panels, cooling systems, based on the land of buried pipes and other.



In addition, Kosmport, on the idea of ​​design has the potential to become an icon of the new building design and environmental integration. According to the authors, the dynamic forms of ' America ' can be traced both at the same time mystical and dramatic elements. This is intended to excite dizafn visitors to feelings, emotions, coupled with the first steps of space exploration. But all is not just beautiful words and pictures, and vzapravdashny, that is real, the project - Spaceport scheduled to open in 2011.



By the way, let's go back to the theme of the Virgin of the galaxy (Virgin Galactic). This company is involved in the project not prsto so, because the company already has a development space ships, buyout will be available for work in the Spaceport ' America'. This is the ship White Knight 2 (White Knight Two) and the piece of plate 2 Space (Space Ship Two), able to offer to tourists, in an amount not more than six men of the earth, go to the gay travel to the seventh heaven, which is located at an altitude of 100 km.





But all that joy is available if passengers can find $ 200,000, for which in addition to flying tourist gets three training days at the launch site ' America', a few minutes of stirring of the air in a state of absolute disorientation in space (in other words 6 minutes in zero gravity ) and the test of congestion . Yet the services are pretty poplyuschennogo congestion and does not understand anything of joy will be lucky this bar! .




Now a bad news - if you want to fly in the 11th year or just one of the first - hurry up! .




















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