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Commercial Use of Shuttle Landing Facilities Planned

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-for-business dept.

VeganBob writes "There may be future non-NASA uses of the Shuttle Landing Facilities. At 15,000 feet long and 300 feet wide, the landing strip is larger than those at most commercial airports. From the article: 'NASA today issued a formal request for expressions of interest by non-NASA organizations, including commercial space companies, for use of the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The announcement is the first step in considering how and when NASA can expand access to available capacity at the SLF by government, commercial, and academic organizations.' SPACE.com also covers this announcement."

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  1. Commercialized space by Grep*coke* · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Couldn't it be a bad thing for companies to start launching stuff into space. Not just say, satelites, but perhaps other stuff including space marketing? Shouldn't there be a limit on what goes into space and what doesn't?

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    1. Re:Commercialized space by Approaching.sanity · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Read my sig.

      Limiting people from space woudl be like limiting them from the internet - not gonna happen.

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  2. SpaceShipTwo by gcnaddict · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This would be a good launch site for SpaceShipTwo... or rather, five SpaseShipTwos loaded onto their respective Whight Knights as the same time! That's a huge runway...

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  3. Re:Commercial use?!?! by captain+igor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) That's what air traffic control is for 2) Even if it's not open to the public, how would that stop terrorists from flying into it? Go back to hiding in your hole, idiot.