Sorry, name’s taken

An article today in the Decatur (Ala.) Daily about the FTC’s approval of the United Launch Alliance includes this passage:

“Decatur might want to rename itself Space Port America,” said Loren Thompson, Ph.D., a military and aerospace analyst at the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va., and a Lockheed consultant.

Since Thompson immerses himself in military issues, he may have forgotten than the name “Spaceport America” is already used by New Mexico’s fledgling spaceport. (Moreover, they actually don’t launch anything in Decatur, only build rockets.) And don’t think about turning the phrase around and calling Decatur “America’s Spaceport”: that’s taken, too.