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New Mexico has begun work on the world’s first spaceport -- a massive $200 million project which will be home to space tourist flights offered by Virgin Galactic as well as space-related scientific research projects and other commercial interests to be carried out in space. Spaceport America, which boasts a 10,000 foot-long runway will be finished in about 18 months when Richard Branson and his family will take the world’s first family trip into orbit around the Earth, to be followed by a waiting list of 300 space tourists who have each put up $200,000 for six minutes of weightlessness during the two-hour flight. (BBC)