Comments on: (Up with) People for Aerospace http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/01/04/up-with-people-for-aerospace/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Harold Nils Pelta http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/01/04/up-with-people-for-aerospace/comment-page-1/#comment-122180 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:16:06 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/01/04/up-with-people-for-aerospace/#comment-122180 Good for you in your development effort !
1. Just ask the opponents of your plan where they expect the funding for schools, jobs, and better housing will come, absent this significant and courageous project.
2. You might wish to consider factoring in some other 21st Century technology projects to gather a wider base of support and begin to project your area as a leader in advanced solutions to present and future problems. Some thoughts that come to mind along those lines:
a. a site for designing, building,& serving as a base for hybrid lighter-than-air craft.
b. serving future transportation needs of the area with advanced technologies, such as monorail and maglev trains — again design, build, and use industries.
c. continue to take advantage of the “dark skies” of NM, without the light pollution that infects the rest of the country, to establish yourselves as the site for a major astronomical observatory.

If I were younger by a significant age, I’d suggest to my wife moving my family out there and helping you.
Best of luck in achieving what you’re trying to do.

]]> By: Chance http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/01/04/up-with-people-for-aerospace/comment-page-1/#comment-56263 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:38:40 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/01/04/up-with-people-for-aerospace/#comment-56263 “Chances are good you will never ride a rocket into outer space, or visit the International Space Station, so why should you support the spaceport?”

Well, if you build a spaceport, your chances of going to space on a rocket at least go from zero to…something. That’s better than nothing anyway.

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