Spaceport America, formerly the Southwest Regional Spaceport, is an FAA-licensed spaceport located on 18,000 acres of State Trust Land in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin 45 miles north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and 20 miles southeast of Truth or Consequences.
"Sir Richard Branson describes his trip to space on Virgin Galactic as the most extraordinary day of his life, highlighting the experience of floating in space and looking back at Earth."
"The Virgin Galactic experience is different. Its supersonic rocket-powered spaceplane SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity seats six passengers and two highly trained pilots. It takes off on a runway from Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, while strapped to a mothership. At 52,000 feet, it detaches and burns its rocket engine for one minute to reach Mach 3 speeds and touch the edge of space. After a few minutes of weightlessness (and a chance for passengers to see the curvature of Earth against the blackness of space), it glides back to land on a runway." - Travel + Leisure Editors
"The Virgin Galactic experience will begin (and end) at futuristic Spaceport America, whose concrete-and-glass domes rise from the desert in rural New Mexico. Passengers will board SpaceShipTwo, a sleek spaceplane with room for six passengers that begins each flight tethered beneath a twin-fuselage mothership called White Knight Two."
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