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UPHAM, N.M., June 19 (UPI) -- Festivities were under way Friday at the groundbreaking of New Mexico's new Spaceport America and its 10,000-foot runway, state officials said.
The Spaceport, a taxpayer-funded project, is to have a terminal and hangar facility for science experiments and rocket launches, including flights where tourists will pay $200,000 each to take sub-orbital flights into space, The Albuquerque Journal reported Friday.
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo was to fly over the area during Friday's groundbreaking. The WhiteKnightTwo, based in California's Mojave Desert, is a double-hulled mothership designed to carry a rocket-powered capsule to an altitude of 48,000 feet, the Journal reported.
The Spaceport, about 45 miles north of Las Cruces, is expected to provide a major economic boost to southern New Mexico, state officials said.
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