Watch A Rocket Launch In Ohio?

[Dubh Aingeal]

An initiative by the state of Ohio and the city of Columbus to lure Canadian rocketeers PlanetSpace to launch from an area airport (the former Lockbourne Air Force Base, now called Rickenbacker International Airport). A decision on the incentives could be made by January.

From the article:

Such a package could include tax credits, financing programs and training grants amounting to millions of dollars... PlanetSpace's chairman, Indian-American entrepreneur Chirinjeev Kathuria, told MSNBC.com he expected the incentives to amount to 'somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million.'" Five other states states have spaceports approved or planned.

[Homicidalheathen]

Lately you have just been making the best posts and really keeping this site a worthwhile one. Where do you find all this stuff anyway?

No one comments all the time on them but it is appreciated. Thanks for keeping us in the know, especially about scientific and space type things.....its cool.

[Dubh Aingeal]

Since I spend 6-8 hours a day at work doing basically nothing, unless something breaks, I spend a lot of time browsing news sites. Since I find a lot of it interesting I figure someone else on here probably would as well.

[Zenji]

Does it seem odd to anyone else to have a spaceport...not near water?

I mean, usually they put stuff near water in case something breaks or blows up and then it can fall safely into the ocean to create a new snythetic environment for aquatic life until NASA dredges it up destroying more of earths resources in it's quest for space authority...

But seriously, do they consider the Great Lakes a body of water large enough to support the possible shortfall related to rocket launches? How more likely is it that a malfunctioning craft destroys half of Ohio? Or maybe this is a Canadian plot to get rockets INSIDE the U.S. so if they hit...hmm, say...Cleveland in some kind of accidentla disaster they won't get in as much trouble stating, "Uhh, you fired it from your own country, not our problem".

I'm not too keen on this. Where are some other spaceports in the US? Are any of them not by water (excluding of course military controlled ones in the middle of the desert)?

[torn asunder]

hey, budh, ever browse livescience.com ?

[Dubh Aingeal]

Where are some other spaceports in the US? Are any of them not by water (excluding of course military controlled ones in the middle of the desert)?

The other link in the Qouted section has a map of the other ones. It doesn't list the cities though. But here are the other states:

Two in California

One in Alaska

One in Oklahoma

One in Virginia

One in New Mexico

hey, budh, ever browse livescience.com ?

Unless it has been linked from another site its not one I have been to. But I think it might have just made my list now.

[Zenji]

California makes sense since that's where NASA headquarters is (maybe? I don't remember but I know I've been to visit NASA near San Jose)

Alaska makes sense, nothing out there.

Oklahoma.... I'm beginning to think Timothy McVey is innocent...

Virginia.... close enough to water I think? Or...I'm beginning to think the attack on the Pentagon was NOT part of a terrorist plot...

New Mexico.... aliens? Or just the government spaceports launching new and strange secret technology?

Either way, I'm sure none of the others are launching foreign rockets and stuff. It's a scam I tell ya. Canadians just don't want to risk hitting Windsor and making it dirty.