http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/03/21/scaling-back-spaceport-america/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/03/21/scaling-back-spaceport-america/comment-page-1/#comment-120456 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:34:27 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/03/21/scaling-back-spaceport-america/#comment-120456 […] The Las Cruces Sun-News reports that the state is close to a final lease agreement with Virgin Galactic for the spaceport, although state officials wouldn’t set a timetable for the completion of the agreement. That agreement was one of three conditions that officials in Doña Ana County set on the upcoming local tax referendum. Earlier this week state officials sought to reassure votes that the spaceport cost would not exceed $225 million, another condition on the deal. (The third is obtaining an FAA spaceport license, which is in progress.) The article also notes that the next launch from the spaceport by UP Aerospace, whose inaugural launch in September ended in failure, will now take place no earlier than April. […]

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