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Company Seeks Site for Tourism Spaceport

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

A company that has sent paying tourists to the international space station said Tuesday it was scouting locations for a spaceport to send travelers on suborbital flights.

Sites in Australia, the Bahamas, Florida, Japan, Malaysia, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Singapore and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates are under consideration, the Arlington, Va.-based firm Space Adventures said in a statement. Operations at the spaceport will include suborbital flights, a spaceflight training center and other activities.

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