Virgin Galactic's Sir Richard Branson, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and prospective astronauts gathered in the southern New Mexico desert Friday to celebrate the completion of the runway at the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport [AP and raw video]
The VSS Enterprise spacecraft made a celebratory flight over the New Mexico facility, where Sir Richard Branson told crowds the first commercial flights could take place within nine months [BBC News video]. Branson said that Virgin Galactic will build a spaceship for low earth orbit in the near-term future [SS3].
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