{"id":245171,"date":"2004-03-17T12:46:02","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T17:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/03\/space-tourism-firm-scouts-locations-for-spaceport"},"modified":"2004-03-17T12:46:02","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T17:46:02","slug":"space-tourism-firm-scouts-locations-for-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/03\/space-tourism-firm-scouts-locations-for-spaceport","title":{"rendered":"Space Tourism Firm Scouts Locations For Spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sites in Australia, the Bahamas, Florida, Japan, Malaysia, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Singapore and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates are all under consideration, the Arlington, Virginia-based firm Space Adventures said in a statement.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Operations at the spaceport will include suborbital flights, a space flight training center and other activities.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;Securing the location of a spaceport will be a progressive step for Space Adventures in its evolution from a space experiences provider to an actual space flight academy,&#8221; said Eric Anderson, the company&#8217;s president and chief executive officer.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Two space tourists &#8212; U.S. millionaire Dennis Tito and South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth &#8212; have flown in space with Space Adventures, and two more unidentified Americans have been chosen for space flight.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The price of a flight to orbit Earth is a reported $20 million, which covers the cost of a launch aboard a Russian spacecraft.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>Reuters<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company that has sent paying tourists to the International Space Station said on Tuesday it was scouting locations for a spaceport to send travelers on suborbital flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}