The article I read was about making space travel available to everyone, just like air travel. In Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (named after Ralph Edwards radio show), they are setting up launching pads to send people into space for simple recreational reasons. This isn't a NASA or a government organization, this is by Spaceport America. With this program it would make space travel available to families for the price of 200,000 dollars a trip. On these trips they would take six people up to space and show them the curvature of the earth. This could make the unknowns of space known to many ordinary people. Virgin Galactic is an "airline" that they are coming up with to take people into space. They would take off from special launching pads in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, and land back there after the two hour trip. Counties surrounding the area have agreed to raise taxes to help pay for the construction. Although this project really started out as something that would help the economy, now many people are also very excited about bringing common people to space.
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