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| October 24, 2010 | Runway opens at world's first spaceport in US | | London: Commercial space travel moved a step closer with the unveiling of a runway at the world's first spaceport in New Mexico. The event was marked with a flypast of an aircraft carrying SpaceShip Two. The vehicle has been developed to take fee-paying tourists on trips to the edge of space and back. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin group has backed the venture, said the first passenger trip should take place within 18 months. The opening of the nearly two-mile (three-kilometre) runway comes less than two weeks after another major step for Sir Richard's Virgin Galactic company: the first solo glide flight of SpaceShip Two. "Today is very personal as our dream becomes more real," the BBC quoted Richard as saying. "People are beginning to believe now. I think the drop flight two weeks ago, which went beautifully, I think it made people sit up and realize this is really reality," he said. More than 300 people have already paid at least 200,000 dollars each for a three-hour flight.
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