Spaceport America Groundbreaking Ceremony |
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| Friday, 12 June 2009 16:41 | |||
The ceremony will begin at 5 PM in Las Cruces, New Mexico and will include speeches by Arizona Governor Bill Richardson, Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima and Stephen Attenborough, the commercial director of Virgin Galactic. The budget for the spaceport's construction amounted to $198 million, making it New Mexico's largest economic development project. The following day, Virgin Galactic's spacecraft WhiteKnightTwo, also known as "Eve," will fly over southern New Mexico Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company owned by Richard Branson, signed a 20-year lease with Spaceport America in January 2009.
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