The British space race has begun Facebook Twitter Pinterest UK Space Agency illustration of how Britain's first spaceport may look.

A shortlist of eight locations around Britain that could be the site for the country's first spaceport has been announced.

A four-month consultation which could help decide the location of the UK's first spaceport ends today with Gwynedd being one possible site.

Commercial space tourism is a step nearer reality with the inauguration of the world's first spaceport in the desert of New Mexico.

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