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Monthly Archives: April 2022

Spaceport America

The world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport is right here in New Mexico. It is the operational headquarters for Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard Branson’s American spaceflight company, and where its maiden suborbital spaceflight took place in 2018. You may recall the headlines. Branson beat out Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin launch by just a couple of weeks to become the first billionaire to reach the edge of space.