Comes the spaceport Italian: Mystery on the site, but you will build in the South or in Central Italy – The Messenger

The idea is to make it happen in a town of the South or of Central Italy, but for now the two places are shrouded in more mystery.
This is the Italian spaceport structure from where the tourists will start a day of space. And not only.
Two years ago the Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori had announced collaboration between ENAC and the Federal Aviation Association of aerospace commercial flights. The stated goal was to “Start testing of suborbital space shuttles also for freight and passenger transport to greatly reduce the time of connection between the United States and other continents.”

THE DREAM spaceport

 And now, 24 months later, Italy continues in his dream with another project that still together the National Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC), the US Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) but also the space Agency (Asi) united in the idea of ​​designing a plexus able to support the suborbital flights of the future, that is capable of connecting, for example, Rome and New York in an hour, but above all create a real pole the future of space tourism.

“How -has space Agency commented the president Roberto Battiston- believe that these objectives as ambitious are punishable, in a public-private partnership framework, making progress on the basis of concrete multi-year schedules. We do not want to implement a simple airstrip, a white elephant, but a place where partano and to come spaceships, for what will be space tourism or the launch base for commissioning low nanosatellites orbit. “

But who could turn this property by science fiction? The beneficiaries have already been identified and have a first and last name: NASA, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, Bigalow, Space X and Orbital ATK.

In short Battiston is convinced that the near future will go to the tourist space flight candid and Italy to host an ad hoc site.

“This new market needs zones where to ensure the landing of space vehicles in various parts of the world, spaceports that compose the network required for the success in this market. Italy -he still said President dell’Asi-, for climatic reasons, for good weather that allows us visibility, because we are surrounded by the sea, offers areas are more suitable starting and land, with less environmental risk. Are characteristics that make our country attractive for a spaceport. “

THE FIRST AND ‘ONE OF THE VIRGIN GALACTIC

 It’s called Spaceport America and is located in New Mexico. It ‘the first spaceport in the world destined to be the springboard for commercial space flights. A project to be $ 209 million still being completed but already usable for testing the shuttle’s Space Ship Two Virgin Galactic Billionaire Sir Richard Branson.

THE POSTERS OF NASA

 Auroras on Jupiter? The breathtaking view of the rings of Saturn? The discovery of the frozen oceans on Titan? Never fear, the travel agency has already prepared the brochures. Nientemenop that NASA has already designed the tourist posters of tourism future travel in space, a curious gallery can be found here. It just has to ask for prices.

(Una of space tourism posters created for the game by NASA)

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