"Anything you dream is fiction," Ray Bradbury wisely put it, "and anything you accomplish is science. The whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction."
There are several entertainment journalists packed into a nine-seat helicopter taking off from a tiny airport in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and none of us can stop humming the Jurassic Park theme. We'll be in the air for about 20 minutes, traveling across a desert so empty that it's hard to tell exactly how far we are from the ground.
We're going to a spaceport. A an actual, bonafide, real world spaceport. While it's hard for me to even think the word "Spaceport" without adding, "You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy," Spaceport America is anything but....
Read the full article at: Imaginary Stories: Astronauts, Spaceports and After Earth from ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories
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