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Japan’s floating spaceport to bring space travel to city

Spaceport designed to launch tourists to space for the day

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A floating spaceport in Japan could bring space travel to the city.

A group of designers and architects are working on a four-story, futuristic spaceport city that floats in Tokyo Bay.

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It’s designed to launch tourists on day trips to space where they will be able to see the curvature of the Earth and experience zero gravity.

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But it is not the first urban spaceport project.

In Houston, the home of NASA’s astronaut program at Johnson Space Center, work is underway to transform a former airport into a commercial spaceport.