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It's been some time since I updated you on the goings on at our local spaceport. The official name change to the Mojave Air & Space Port reflects its status as the only licensed civil-use spaceport in America. While there haven't been any huge public events of late such as the first flights of SpaceShipOne, the spaceport continues to grow in vitality and importance. Scaled Composites is still quietly working on SpaceShipTwo. Three times larger than SpaceShipOne, it will take six passengers and two pilots on a two-and-a-half hour suborbital flight. The mothership from which SpaceShipTwo will be launched, WhiteKnightTwo, is larger than a Boeing 757. Test flights are planned for this year, with revenue flights commencing in 2009 from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic has accepted advances from eighty paying passengers, some of whom have already begun training for their flight. XCOR recently unveiled its 28-foot-long Lynx aerospace plane, which will take off...
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