Reviews of Spaceport America (Travel Agency)

DJSirVyx

The place isnt even built yet, not sure why people are complaining and moaning hahaha

Michael Marcotte

Still early days -- no space vehicles yet -- but worth the tour to see what $238 million tax dollars bought... the mega hangar, the operations center, the crash rescue station, ride the simulator, and (on our tour) speed down the 2.27 mile runway they call the spaceway. The scenic van ride from TorC includes well produced videos about the history of the region and the exciting prospects for commercial space transportation.

Paul Bodis

The place to be in the middle of nowhere

Vivian Valencia

Great time! Very cool place to see if you are into unusual attractions. The Space port is out in the middle of nowhere, literally. You meet in the little town of Truth or Consequences NM and then you are shuttled out. It's about a 30 to 40 minute drive. The Spaceport is meant to be a commercial venture in the future, that being said it was still worth the visit for me. You get to see the conference area, educational area where you can try the 2G machine, talk to the fire crew, watch videos, play computer games, take lots of pictures, see the hanger where the spaceships and transport vehicle will be housed. Our tour guide was very informative and accommodating. The fire men were also helpful and answered any questions. We were able to get into the ARFF, so cool! Our tour lasted 4 hours.

William Wright

Pretty cool. Just need some spacecraft to land here.

Elvira Esparza Bencomo

Amazing building. Had a great time at the Space Festival Open House.

Greg Rowe

Great tour hosted by Spaceport Tours.

Shaunna Grace

Great! Neat place.

BLIXVids .

Space

Randy Pittman

Awesome

David Haeker

Went during a special event, so there was not much to do here except look at the hanger.

Kyle C

Attention tourists: This is most definitely worth the stop! By 2020 I have no doubt it will have grown immensely!! Tips: *Book your tour weeks in advance to ensure you get a slot! As an airport, security will NOT let you on the property for any reason other then being on the guided tour. *Plan the better part of a day for the tour at the actual Spaceport. The visitor center is essentially just a meeting place to go on the tour. You will most likely be unimpressed by the visitor center, and everything worth while is at the Spaceport. *We stayed in Truth it Consequences about an hour away. Many hotels have indoor natural hot spring mineral pools. Very cool! We highly recommend the Sierra Grande and stop at T&C brewing for some great beer. *We have AT&T and no service most places. Print a map if you plan on driving out to the spaceport. If you missed the tour or in town on a day there is no tour, it’s worth driving out just to see the building. But again, you can’t get on the property and there isn’t much to see from outside the gate. *Curtis and his staff are very friendly and happy to help. Great tour!

Kelly Ahrendes

I like this place. Some say it's a waste of money. It may well be. It is still awe inspiring. It looks like a space ship in the desert. I hope that Virgin Galactic follows through soon and their space flights are successful, because then and only then might it turn any sort of profit.

Tshepiso Ramaboa

amazing and it is going to be epic and Ia' m looking forward to it

Anthony Castorani

Don't bother going if you expect to actually see anything, no direct access. Now if you like off-road driving - grab your pickup and just get to the gates. The journey is better than the destination.

Terese Jackson

Went to the openhouse on 4/7/2019. Enjoyed seeing the hanger and the festivities. However, wish it had been more informative.

Contreras Jesus

Best of future for aerodynamic landings!;!

Αντώνιος Πάσχαμυλωνάς-Ecord

I had a few hours free and decided to see this place. Google maps took me the back way from the south, and there were a few historical points along the way. The spaceport itself is awesome, though i went on a sunday and tours are only on saturdays by appointment. I could still see the buildings from the gate. There is an art piece at the round about just outside which is pretty cool. If you go out expecting some awesome experience, don't go. If you are intrigued by the history and the future ideas about this location, this is a nice afternoon visit.

Laken Baca

Awesome!

SHIN OSAKA

(Translated by Google) It leads to the universe from here. (Original) ここから宇宙に繋がります。

Amanda Harjo

My family and I had fun here, but Wow, there are several things that could have been done so much better! For one, there were too many exhibits/venders that had Nothing to do with Science or Space. Ballroom dancers? Seriously? Also, the music was blasting SO loudly that precious few of the announcements could be heard, and even fewer understood. They made different announcements inside and outside the hanger too! So we missed out on half the darn celebration and all the coolest stuff. We were really very interested in the speakers and their presentations, but there was so much darn noise, but inside and outside the hanger that, even sitting 2 rows from the stage front, we couldn't understand a word coming out of their mouths. The science demonstrations and hands on interactive stuff was REALLY cool! However, again with the blasted music drowning everything out!! We had to Really strain to hear Anything being said. Even the guy with the mega phone at the rocket shoot (that we knew nothing about until it was too late to participate in), could not be clearly heard nor understood. One last complaint; while the food vendors were delicious, 8 Freaking Dollars for a Single hamburger!?! Come on! OH! And the gyroscoping antigravity ride they advertized was nowhere in sight. Major disappointment for my boy....

Tomoyuki Nukui

(Translated by Google) The best! (Original) 最高！

Brother in the hood

space port and for all united world dream's I give you my 5 stars...cool ... My dream in one day i realy realy wanna go to other world...so gut luck sir ... God bless us all..

Chuck P

This is a joke, right?

NorfolkAndChance

A space virgin, a private corporation and a British Knight would have you believe that tourists will soon be visiting space! NOT SO FAST! The details of any lie will destroy the illusion. The illusion at hand is space which is an idea implanted in the world mind through TV, books, media and movies. The illusion at hand is in a place called Truth or Consequences NM where a British Knight built a space port façade in a military controlled desert. Use your own human abilities to detect the (absent) ring of truth in this

Scott Kennedy

A truly beautiful location for a testament to the belief in man's need to explore the next frontier.

Bryan Lindenberger

A great idea at one time, but turned into more tax-payer funded welfare for the wealthy and wired-in. I played a small part in touting it as a huge boon for local economy through tourism, but there's really not much to see here.

Constance Nipper

Very dissapointed. After parking and walking a long ways a huge building comes into view. I was impressed to see that the roof was covered with material that matched the sandy area surrounding the area, making it invisible from above. Unfortunately, as I approached the entrance of the building all I saw was a huge empty space filled with vendors, and on the sides of the building were more vendors. That was all. On the way out I did see a replica of the space shuttle sitting in the weeds behind an old barbed wire fence.

robert may

Would like to see them have some 1 mile top speed competitions for cars. 200 foot wide two and a half mile long Runway would be perfect.

ali padilla

Very interesting. Ultimately it will only be for people of means. But, its still a very interesting place/idea/concept.

Brian Nolastname

Not open to the public, you must be on a tour to get through the front gate.

Lei Ma

cool

Heriberto Herrera

Really cool and futuristic looking building.

John Appleseed

Space Port. The place for rich people only. NO POOR ALLOWED.

Ali Mahboob

Fosters designs are fascinating

Beth Umland

Wicked cool tour for young and young at heart

Andrea Salvaggio

(Translated by Google) Very interesting to visit the first space port for commercial trips. Excellent driving: kind and prepared. (Original) Molto interessante visitare il primo porto spaziale per viaggi commerciali. Ottima la guida: gentile e preparato.

Elizabeth Balizan

Can't wait

Tani Fisher

Wow. This is amazing.

Saad Mirza

Great place to launch a rocket to outer space - and a great deal.

Nam Trollgamer

Rat dep

The New Son

(Translated by Google) It was hard to find even by google maps, imagine going there then! lol (Original) Foi difícil de achar até pelo google maps, imagine ir até lá então! kkkkk

Matthew Hanseman

Need better directions

Matteo Isquierdo

I've only been here during the filming of a movie and the place is really nice. I can't really say much because I wasn't allowed to roam around but of all the parts I saw, it looked fantastic. Looks like if it was in use, it could be a great spaceport.

andy ruiz

Not what I expected from such a big deal. The building looks amazing but there nothing in it but one plane in the hangar

Scott McLaughlin

Interesting to visit, but you can only go on a guided tour. It is a secure facility and you cannot simply show up at the gate...they will not let you in. Look for the tour on the Spaceport America website.

Randall Stewart

Part of the future

Austin Ball

So open and big and a great visit

slashmaster2 .

Could be a giant building built for mostly nothing. But regardless, the rest of mankind will be able to learn lessons from this monument in the future! 5 stars in advance for those future lessons!

Master Chief Tshepiso R

amazing

Matthew Bezzant

Very cool from what I saw. I just showed up on a week day and was followed around by security before I even got the the gate. So I went up and asked if I could take a tour. They were very nice and polite and told me know I had to come on a saturday for a scheduled tour. tou can find the guys number on their website. It is a nice drive or in my case a motorcyle ride and the north road from upham is finished.

Adora Ludy-Woznick

Fabulous!

LP Jones

Put this on your list to see. Make sure that you make prior arrangements for access or it is a public event

TIKU BANDHE

Beautiful

Joe Smith

Long drive for visiting history in the making. If you can drive during one of their open houses -- I think that is the way to do. Lot's to see on the way if you go via Truth Or Consequences. Longer by miles but shorter by time usually and lots more to see along the way.

Elena Flores

Space enthusiasts might find it worth the drive but otherwise not much out there

slarin slash

I visited here without tour reservation. I couldn’t get in here, However I could take picture of building.

Brandon Jensen

I was there on other business, filming for a production, but I must say that the staff was, nonetheless supremely helpful and courteous. Even the guards at the gate were super cool! Would love to go there for its actual capacity.

Angelo Michael Vega

The festival had lots of activities for the kids. We attended the free movie last night at the Rio Grande theater. It was great.

Richard Friday

Amazing place was so fun going for the open house!

Peter Brisbine

Neat to say you've been there. Exhibits are lacking. It felt very amateurish. Not worth the $45 ticket. Put on by 3rd party tour company. No official Spaceport personnel to talk to. Not much activity to see at the Spaceport itself. No list of accomplishments. We had done lots of research on the drive home about their accomplishments.

Rich Alfano

A huge taxpayer funded boondoggle in the frigging desert! A waste of time and money on a white elephant built for the wealthy.

Jeff James

Nice facility, would like to see it when it is finished and launching regularly.

William Dempsey

It's getting there

David Fields

Amazing vistas. Wonderful tour guides. Very informative and educational. So pleased we visited.

Steven-Daniel Bleth

Great place to visit

Gabriel.T Price

Amazing place coming along nicely can't wait to see it open.

Brent M. Eastwood

Biggest boondoggle in state history. Totally mismanaged. Virgin Galactic spaceships are unsafe. Waste of tax payer money. Needs to be sold to the private sector. Failed management and policies by Governor Martinez. Needs to be repurposed as a Mars research center. It has totally ripped off the New Mexico taxpayers.

Colleen Gino

Wonderful facility, great tour, lovely views. Space tourism may seem far-fetched now, but it is the future!

Wolfgang Barthel

(Translated by Google) Spaceport America (also called New Mexico Spaceport and formerly Southwest Regional Spaceport) is the first privately funded spaceport. Built from 2005 to 2011, the facility would finally open on 17 October 2011, the flight operations should begin by the end of 2013, but was postponed indefinitely. The operator of the facility is Virgin Galactic (founded in September 2004 by British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and US engineer Burt Rutan). This space company aims to offer sub-orbit space flights for space tourists. Furthermore, orbital space flights and scientific missions are to be carried out. The location was selected because the airspace over the region blocked for US Army testing grounds provides optimal launch conditions. In addition, the state of New Mexico was willing to subsidize the project with $ 200 million. The first unmanned missile launch on September 25, 2006 ended in a crash. The first successful rocket launch took place on April 28, 2007. The date for the first flight was first the year-end 2012, then 2013. Significant problems with the spacecraft engines resulted in an indefinite shift in October 2013. On October 31, 2014, the SpaceShipTwo prototype VSS Enterprise crashed during a test flight. The pilot Peter Siebold, was able to save himself seriously injured by parachute, co-driver Mike Alsbury was killed. The reason for the crash was the air brake system of the SpaceShipTwo, which was used too early. As a result, the plane broke apart in the air. To transport the space tourists into space, the company TSC was commissioned to build five aircraft and two carriers. Carrier plane: White Knight Two (2 pieces) Suborbital Aircraft: SpaceShipTwo (5 pieces, 1 crashed) (Original) Spaceport America (auch New Mexico Spaceport und ehemals Southwest Regional Spaceport genannt) ist der erste privat finanzierte Weltraumhafen. Erbaut von 2005 bis 2011 würde die Einrichtung am 17. Oktober 2011 schließlich eröffnet, der Flugbetrieb sollte bis Ende 2013 beginnen, wurde aber auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben. Betreiber der Anlage ist Virgin Galactic (gegründet im September 2004 vom britischen Unternehmer Sir Richard Branson und dem US-amerikanischen Ingenieur Burt Rutan). Dieses Raumfahrtunternehmen hat das Ziel, sub-orbitale Raumflüge für Weltraumtouristen anzubieten. Des Weiteren sollen orbitale Weltraumflüge und wissenschaftliche Missionen durchgeführt werden. Der Ort wurde ausgewählt, weil der für das Testgelände der US Army gesperrte Luftraum über der Region optimale Startbedingungen bietet. Außerdem war der Bundesstaat New Mexico bereit, das Projekt mit 200 Millionen Dollar zu subventionieren. Der erste unbemannte Raketenstart am 25. September 2006 endete mit einem Absturz. Der erste erfolgreiche Raketenstart erfolgte am 28. April 2007. Als Datum für den ersten Flug wurde zunächst das Jahresende 2012, dann 2013 genannt. Erhebliche Probleme mit den Triebwerken des Raumfahrzeugs führten im Oktober 2013 zu einer Verschiebung auf unbestimmte Zeit. Am 31. Oktober 2014 stürzte der SpaceShipTwo-Prototyp VSS Enterprise bei einem Testflug ab. Der Pilot Peter Siebold, konnte sich schwerverletzt per Fallschirm retten, Co-Pilot Mike Alsbury kam ums Leben. Grund für den Absturz war das Luftbremssystem des SpaceShipTwo, welches zu früh eingesetzt wurde. In Folge dessen brach das Flugzeug in der Luft auseinander. Zum Transport der Weltraumtouristen ins All wurde die Firma TSC zum Bau von fünf Flugzeugen und zwei Trägern beauftragt. Trägerflugzeug: White Knight Two (2 Stück) Suborbitales Flugzeug: SpaceShipTwo (5 Stück, 1 abgestürzt)

Leo Herring

In the middle of nowhere is this place of beauty

Trey

Such a cool place!

Peter Harris

thanks to matthew baker's imaging we have a start-up for street view

nick spencer

Great time. Cant wait until they start flying commercially.

Ryan L

One amazing location with gorgeous architecture.

Joe Bullington

Amazing place. I always enjoy visiting Spaceport America. It is one of the coolest places anywhere. So much has been happening and so much more is about to happen. Can't wait for what is next.