Oct 18th, 2011 at 10:30AM:
Yesterday morning, Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez, Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides, and Richard Branson welcomed guests inside Spaceport America to commemorate and christen the spaceport's main terminal hangar facility as the 'Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space'.
Our team on the ground was on hand to capture the festivities, from the opening press conference to the Champagne ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Inside Virgin Galactic's Gateway to Space (VIDEO)
Oct 18th, 2011 at 10:30AM:
Yesterday morning, Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez, Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides, and Richard Branson welcomed guests inside Spaceport America to commemorate and christen the spaceport's main terminal hangar facility as the 'Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space'.
Our team on the ground was on hand to capture the festivities, from the opening press conference to the Champagne ...Virgin Galactic christens terminal 'Gateway to Space' (Photos)
Oct 17th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
The Montgolfier brothers had Paris. The Wright brothers had Kill Devil Hills. Today, Richard Branson can officially call the New Mexican desert 'home' for his burgeoning commercial space line.
This morning, Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez, Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides, and Richard Branson welcomed guests inside Spaceport America, to commemorate and christen the ...Dirt-Road Driving To Explore Spaceport America
Sep 9th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
In the wilderness of New Mexico, set in the dry, scrubby desert under a crystalline pale blue sky, is a construction site with a bombastic and cartoonish name, incomplete but already a monument to the hubris of interstellar exploration or maybe to tax-payer financed public-private partnerships of indeterminate future success.
Spaceport America, a beautiful collection of Googie-inspired ...First craft lands at Spaceport America (Exclusive Video)
Oct 26th, 2010 at 8:30AM:
The future of travel is one step closer to taking off. Last Friday, Spaceport America officially dedicated its recently completed tarmac by welcoming two craft to land in front of a large crowd of Spaceport officials, future astronauts, and press.
Gadling was on-site to witness history as Virgin Galactic's spaceship VSS Enterprise, carried by mothership White Knight II, made a dramatic ...Exclusive video: SpaceShipTwo unveiling
Dec 10th, 2009 at 7:40AM:
Gadling goes Galactic. Be sure to check out the photo coverage here. Music: Above & Beyond - Buzz.
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