Comments on: A Bahrain spaceport?

By: Sam Dinkin

Sam Dinkin — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:00:21 +0000

Correction, man bitten by own petard.

By: Sam Dinkin

Sam Dinkin — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:59:28 +0000

Branson denying a rumor. Dog bites man.

By: Jeff Foust

Jeff Foust — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:08:46 +0000

Chance: you’re right in that we don’t really know how many spaceports that region (or worldwide) for that matter, can support. It will depend on the number of operators, their sortie rates, and levels of demand. Given the concentration of wealthy people in that part of the world, though, it’s not unreasonable to think that there would be enough interest to support at least one spaceport for suborbital space tourism.

Ken: you mean you don’t read the Bahrain Tribune on a daily basis? Actually, you’ve pretty much right: I scan Google News on a regular basis for stories about space tourism and key companies in the field to find news articles from relatively obscure publications on relevant topics.

By: Ken Gosier

Ken Gosier — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:06:22 +0000

Just a procedural question: How do you manage to keep up with these far-flung news services, like the Bahrain tribune? Do you have some kind of a google news hack?

Many thanks, just curious, great website!

By: Chance

Chance — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:11:09 +0000

I wonder how many spaceports the region can handle economically? I believe I asked this same question a while back about US spaceports, and that answer is probably the same: we won’t know until they are there and operating for a while.