If you’re paying $450,000 per person for a two-hour rocket ride into space, you might reasonably expect the place where you spend four days training for the experience to be out-of-this-world, if not downright celestial. In designing the Astronaut Training Facility for Virgin Galactic, the spaceflight company founded by Virgin Group entrepreneur Richard Branson, the architects at BA Collective (BAC) collaborated with their client to meet that expectation.
The interior space of just over 10,000 square feet is situated within the 110,000-square-foot Spaceport America, designed by London-based Foster + Partners. Almost 200 miles south of Albuquerque, it’s located near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (formerly Hot Springs, renamed in 1950 after the popular game show).
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