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The Office of Commercial Space Transportation (generally referred to as FAA/AST or simply AST [1] [note 1]) is the branch of the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that approves any commercial rocket launch operations — that is, any launches that are not classified as model, amateur, or "by and for the government" — in the case of a U.S. launch operator and/or a launch ...
Corn Ranch, commonly referred to as Launch Site One (LSO), is a spaceport owned and operated by Blue Origin which is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of the town of Van Horn, Texas, United States. The 165,000-acre (670 km 2) plot of land was purchased by Jeff Bezos in 2004.
The Texas Space Commission is a state agency of the Government of Texas. It was founded by the 48th governor of Texas Greg Abbott at Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 26, 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Mar. 26—AUSTIN — Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday launched the Texas Space Commission and announced the inaugural members of the Texas Space Commission Board of Directors and the Texas ...
When a future house for astronauts explodes, a celebration might seem inappropriate, but engineers at a commercial space company couldn't be prouder of their shredded outer space house.Sierra ...
The main entrance of the Houston Spaceport from Space Center Blvd. The Houston Spaceport is a federally licensed commercial spaceport located in Houston, Texas, United States. Situated on 400 acres (160 ha) at Ellington Airport (EFD), the spaceport is managed by the Houston Airport System, a department of the City of Houston.
The tentative land-swapping deal moved forward this week when the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission unanimously voted in favor of swapping 43 noncontiguous acres from Boca Chica State Park with ...
The south end of the main terminal was extended with more ticketing space and the original terminal was modernized (the scalloped roofline was removed). By the 1990s, several new-entrant carriers had pulled out and most of the rest had downgraded to regional jets; only Southwest, the airport's largest carrier, operated main line jets.