Wow! Tiny New Mexico is in /. today:
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/06/2119214.shtml "The next step for a project we've previously discussed has now
come around: thanks to a sales tax increase it seems as though
the residents of Dona Ana county in New Mexico will be playing
host to the first American commercial spaceport. From the BBC
article: 'Residents in the US state of New Mexico have approved
a new tax to build the nation's first commercial spaceport. Dona
Ana County is a relatively poor and bleak swathe of desert in
southern New Mexico with fewer than 200,000 residents. But
voters passed a 0.25% increase in the local sales tax to help
contribute to the cost of building Spaceport America. Sir
Richard Branson has signed a long-term lease with the state of
New Mexico to make the new spaceport the headquarters of his
Virgin Galactic space tourism business. The spaceport is
expected to open in 2009, and Virgin Galactic says space flights
will cost around $200,000 for a 2.5-hour flight.'"
-- Owen
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