The host of Truth or Consequences, a popular radio gameshow at the time, offered to air his program from the first town that named itself after the show. More than 60 years later, Truth or Consequences has kept its distinctive name, and gained something similarly rare: the worlds first commercial spaceport. Truth or Consequences is the closest town to Spaceport America, a facility that commercial spaceflight companies such as Virgin Galactic and SpaceX plan to use to fire paying passengers past our atmosphere. Twenty suborbital missions have already been launched from the spaceport, and commercial spaceflight companies SpaceX and Virgin Galactic have deals that allow them to use the desert facility for test flights and planned launches — but the center is not quite ready to be a bustling spaceport just yet.
Welcome to the weird and wild west of private spaceflight
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