Today, a ceremony is taking place at New Mexico's Spaceport America to dedicate the Terminal Hangar Facility, which will house Virgin Galactic's fleet of spaceships and motherships. VG is, so far, the major customer of Spaceport America, and will fly its commercial suborbital flights from there.
The Terminal Hangar Facility is certainly up to the task of supporting VG's operations. It is large enough to accomodate two WhiteKnightTwo motherships and five SpaceShipTwo spaceships at once.
The dedication marks one more step along the way for a commercial space industry. Sometime within a year or so, regular operations are scheduled to commence for VG at Spaceport America. The real test for the company and the new industry will begin at that time.
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