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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 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.
Reed said Texas voters approved $1 billion to buy more land for the state parks system, which could be used to buy the 477 acres and keep the existing state-owned 43 acres.
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 ...
SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk's space venture rapidly expands its rocket and satellite business across ...
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.
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 ...