{"id":1047,"date":"2007-01-02T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/virgin-galactic-denies-report-that-it-plans-to-build-a-spaceport-in-the-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2007-01-02T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T21:27:00","slug":"virgin-galactic-denies-report-that-it-plans-to-build-a-spaceport-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/virgin-galactic-denies-report-that-it-plans-to-build-a-spaceport-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic denies report that it plans to build a spaceport in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RZrOlAjA8cI\/AAAAAAAAANc\/ko-DoYKaqqY\/s1600-h\/virgin_galactic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RZrOlAjA8cI\/AAAAAAAAANc\/ko-DoYKaqqY\/s200\/virgin_galactic.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015548270227812802\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/flash.html\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> is denying published reports that it plans to build a spaceport in the <st1:place st=\"on\">Middle East<\/st1:place>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A company spokeswoman told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradearabia.com\/tanews\/newsdetails_snTTN_article116870_cnt.html\" target=\"_blank\">TradeArabia<\/a> that a newspaper report to the contrary was false. The report said a spaceport would be built in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Bahrain<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> beginning in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The company also denied reports that have spread across the Internet for months that it has plans to build a spaceport in <st1:city st=\"on\">Dubai<\/st1:city>, located in the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">United Arab   Emirates<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cRight now, we are concentrating on the spaceport, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a>, which is to be based in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>,\u201d a Virgin Galactic spokeswoman was quoted as saying. \u201cWe have looked at <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Sweden<\/st1:country-region> and the possibility of opening one in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Scotland<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. But as for opening one in <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Bahrain<\/st1:country-region>, or even <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Dubai<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, that is not true at all.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic is denying published reports that it plans to build a spaceport in the Middle East. A company spokeswoman told TradeArabia that a newspaper report to the contrary was false. The report said a spaceport would be built in Bahrain beginning in February. The company also denied reports that have spread across the Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}