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National
Neil Pooran & Rory Cassidy

Scottish spaceport expansion plans include hotel and visitor centre

Plans to create a Scottish spaceport include a new hotel and visitor centre. The island of Unst in Shetland, which is the northern-most part of the UK, is earmarked for the launch site.

The team behind SaxaVord spaceport hopes to build new accommodation near the site, appealing to those keen to see rare birds and wildlife as well as rocket launches.

Thousands attended an attempted launch at a spaceport in Cornwall earlier this year, and hundreds are expected to attend the first orbital blast offs and a viewing area will be set up across a bay, opposite the spaceports' launch pads.

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