A Galactic Vacation

Submitted by Mark Wolinski, Made Popular: July 03, 2009 at 02:37 PM • blogs.nationalgeographic.com
For those travelers who feel like they have done it all, a new out-of-this-world opportunity will soon be available–for a price. On June 19, New Mexico unveiled plans for the nation’s first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America. The spaceport, estimated to be completed by 2010, would take travelers up 50,000 feet, break out of the Earth’s atmosphere, and then fly up to 62 miles above the Earth.
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