The company that pioneered the concept of space tourism has announced plans for a commercial spaceport in the United Arab Emirates.
Space Adventures will build its first spaceport in the emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah, less than an hour’s drive from Dubai, and, in a project estimated to cost at least $265 million, is designing to add further ports in locations such as Singapore and North America.
The US company has also struck a deal with investment firm Prodea to develop rocket ships to take paying customers on sub-orbital flights.
It’s amazing how day after day the UAE keeps turning more and more into a wonderland. So many cool things in one place.
by the time we get there I’ll probably be…135 yeas or 150 years old :))
the UAE is a major player in the wordl, it’s got tremendous ambitions..and things are moving along for the tiny emirtate.
if it’s not for the UAE, the A380 and the dreamliner would probably never materialize
The UAE is taking control of the major 6 US seaports, depsite objections from the congress.
The UAE has the fastest growing real estate industry in the world and by 2020, everything from from sea shipments to air traffic to enterainement will transit through the UAE…especially that by that time, the world economy will tilt towards asia…
Now that’s what i call Vision and concrete steps to implement it