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Spaceport America, New Mexico, United States
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A visitor center is planned in downtown Truth Or Consequences (the closest town) to provide shuttle bus services to the Spaceport.
Operation
Virgin Galactic, the spaceport's anchor tenant, will have primary access to the spaceport's 10,000-foot-long (3,000 m) runway. From which, it will operate 21⁄2 hour commercial trips. Virgin's suborbital ship, SpaceShipTwo (SS2), will be flown by its mother-craft, White Knight Two (WK2), to an altitude of 50,000 feet (15,000 m) before blasting off into a suborbital trajectory. Space Ship Two's launches will apex 70 miles (110 km) from the Earth's surface at more than 2,000 mph (3,200 km/h). Customers will take part in 3 days pre-flight preparation, bonding, and training onsite at the spaceport.
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