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Alaskan Space Port Prepares for First Launch

Posted by michael on from the space-port-has-a-nice-ring-to-it dept.

dlkf writes: "The Kodiak Launch Complex on the Alaskan coast, run by the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation is scheduled, weather permitting, to send an Athena-1 booster with 4 NASA and Air Force science experiments into orbit tonight. If successful, Alaska will become just the fourth state (California, Florida and Virginia are the others) to send rockets into earth orbit. For more info, read this."

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  1. Impressive dedication to education by dbolger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While I was reading the start of this article, I couldn't figure out why Alaska would be chosen as a launch site for a rocket, considering the 90% chance of weather too poor for launch. If, like the article says, it was chosen specifically for the deployment of the Starshine 3 satellite, I am very impressed with the dedication to the education of the nations (and the worlds) young people in space-science this shows. Hopefully, its projects like this that will kids interested while we gradually make our way to Mars and beyond.

  2. Make that 5: Michgian has put a rocket into space! by Balrogg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not orbit, but space.... REALLY!

    On 1/29/1971, a rocket was launched into space from the tip of the Keweenaw peninsula!

    http://www.gt.org/keweenaw-rocket-base/index.htm l

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