If You Build It, Will The Cows Wear Spacesuits?

Florida has Cape Canaveral, Houston has NASA Command, and soon New Mexico could have the "world's first all-commercial spaceport." That is, if the citizens of Las Cruces don't mind paying slightly higher taxes.

No, they're not talking more Roswell conspiracy theories. The desert valley that is much of southern New Mexico could very well become...

"Spaceport America -- a 21st-century portal for thousands of people hoping to blast into space as tourists, explorers, researchers and, maybe someday, as commuters to destinations halfway around the world."

Why d0 I envision the ghost of Disney's head laughing manically and bouncing in a jar of jelly when I read this?

And did you know that there are private companies all over launching rockets into space? One company took a rejected NASA idea and sent into orbit the first inflatable 'space hotel.' One problem - total vacancy. They didn't even send up a monkey to answer the front desk phone!

You should definitely check the full article linked above. It even reveals just what happened to some of those dot.com billionaires.