Elon Musk on Texas spaceport: “We’ll probably have that site active in a couple of years.”
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Source: Houston Chronicle
At the tail end of a news conference today in Washington D.C. the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, was asked whether a site had been chosen yet for much anticipated SpaceX commercial launch site.
His reply, Were also developing a launch pad on the south coast of Texas
Well probably have that site active in a couple of years.
All hes waiting for, Musk said, is an environmental clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration, which he expects to receive soon.
This site, if it is indeed built, would allow for launches of both the Falcon 9 (already flying) and Falcon 9 Heavy (under development) from south Texas, near Brownsville. These launches would be for commercial (i.e. satellites) as well as possibly NASA purposes.
Read more: http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2014/04/elon-musk-on-texas-spaceport-well-probably-have-that-site-active-in-a-couple-of-years/?cmpid=bna#22787101=0
penultimate
(1,110 posts)They are also so small when compared to the Russian ones.
TexasTowelie
(112,173 posts)Then remember that size doesn't matter, it's how you use it that counts.
bananas
(27,509 posts)Here is a sci-fi dramatization of Mars colonization:
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)Elon Musk, a serial entrepreneur and a co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors, confirmed on Friday that his company SpaceX successfully executed a soft landing of its Falcon 9 rocket's first stage in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Falcon 9 rocket was used last week to launch the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station.
It was the first time the rocket's first stage, or the bottom part of the rocket that's ignited at launch, was equipped with four "landing legs."
These legs would eventually be used to land the Falcon 9 stage on the ground so that the rocket could be recovered and reused. The first test was over the water, hence the soft landing.
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-will-make-an-important-spacex-announcement-at-1-pm-edt-2014-4#ixzz2zvkkM4rt
KatyaR
(3,445 posts)Oklahoma tried that 14 years ago and got nuthin'....
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-spaceports-blighted-buildings-rile-town-officials-in-burns-flat/article/3747448
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)Please feel free to add this link to the other discussion here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014788409