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| | The Space Review: Prelude to history? |
 | | Last week the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation awarded the airport a commercial spaceport license, the first ever awarded to an inland facility designed to accommodate RLVs rather than their expendable counterparts. |
 | | He did suggest that while “barnstorming”, or carrying passengers for $100,000 or so, will take place soon, a mature space tourism industry won’t appear until vehicles are available that can carry passengers for $30,000-50,000, with a second generation that can lower the price to as little as $10,000. |
 | | Proponents of Rutan and space commercialization have noted, though, that in the decades since Lindbergh’s flight transatlantic aviation has gone from a stunt to essentially its antithesis: a mundane, routine crossing in a jumbo jet, an experience to be endured more than anything. |
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