From: Greg Burch (gregburch@gregburch.net)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 06:35:08 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert J. Bradbury
> Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 9:54 PM
>
> /. indicates there is now a Commercial Spaceport in Texas:
>
>
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/06/2036225&mode=thread
tid=160
> or
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/06/rocket.launch.ap/
>
> (I wonder what happens when the first rocket crash lands in New
Orleans...)
Being a crazy Texan, I was attracted to *this* subject! Interestingly,
while I can see why they picked this area to launch rockets (it can pass
for some of the harsher and more arid parts of Mars), you could actually
launch from farther south in Texas and go out over the Gulf and only
pass over Florida on your way up. I think there was actually a group
trying to establish a "spaceport" on this basis down by Corpus Christi
back in the hey-day of private launch initiatives in the 90s, but I
haven't heard of it since.
As for hitting New Orleans -- it would probably be an improvement ...
Greg Burch
Vice-President, Extropy Institute
http://www.gregburch.net
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