then, on October 21, 2014, tragedy struck. With more than 600 seats sold at $250,000 each, what started off as a dream to send people just for the excitement to look back and marvel at Earth, was on the cusp of finally being turned into a business. But today, Branson flies airlines on six continents, employs hundreds of jets and, in 2014, was predicting that his spaceship company – Virgin Galactic – would soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and space tourists. Thirty years ago when Sir Richard Branson called up Boeing and asked if they had a spare 747, few would have predicted the brash entrepreneur would so radically transform the placid business of air travel. In conclusion this master plan should be seen as a handbook, a handbook that anticipates future developments in response to transportation and technological advancements at Spaceport America. of land available for development in the Jornada Del Muerto desert basin with other destinations worldwide. At its essence, this master plan acts as a medium connecting the 18,000 sq. Thus the rules for this master plan do not follow the same rules of a traditional city master plan.
#Space age arab al driver#
Alternatively, this project attempts to provide future developers with the tools needed for “space age” developments Thus, this project seeks to serve as a driver for a new type of architecture called “space-age” urbanism, where the architecture aims to re-establish the American “excitement” found in the 1960’s. But currently there are no existing commercial flights and accommodations within a 25 mile radius to Spaceport America. This project imagines that by the year 2050, thousands of passengers will walk through the terminal gates of Spaceport America in order to board a hyper or supersonic flight.