In response to your comments:

– The term “22nd century” is pretty meaningless, at least to me, and sounds a little too much like science fiction. But then, maybe Starchaser has some unique insights into what space vehicles of the next century will look like.

– My presumption that the company has raised only a small fraction of the $100 million needed to develop Rocket City is based on the slow pace of development Starchaser has demonstrated in the last several years. Given the number of competitors seeking to be the first entrants into the suborbital space tourism market (Virgin Galactic, Rocketplane, Blue Origin, Space Adventures, etc.) it would seem likely that Starchaser would be spending money to speed up development of their vehicles if they had in fact raised a sizable sum of funding.

– In a followup article in the Las Cruces Sun-News, city officials reiterated their claims that they never received, and thus did not lose, required documentation from Starchaser. (And if the city did lose the paperwork, why didn’t the company simply resubmit it?) This sounds too much like an unprovable he-said/she-said dispute.

– There is now a link to Starchaser’s web site, which had been previously omitted as a simple oversight.