What won't Richard Branson do for money?
...officials from Virgin Galactic and from the State of New Mexico announced that they had reached an historic agreement which will see the building of a $200m spaceport in the southern part of the state on a 27 square mile area of state land.
Virgin Galactic[a]? Now that can't be a good idea. Didn't Richard try to fly around the world in a hot air balloon a few times? Wait, was he successful? I can't remember...
So why not build a spaceport and see if we can't throw a few millionaires into the air and watch them blow up like some fireworks on the 4th? I think that's a fine idea.
$200 million for a spaceport plus how many billion for a few spacecraft? How much is a flight into space going to cost? $10 million for an hours flight is my guess. It just sounds like a bad idea all around. [ars technica]
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