Commercial Use of Shuttle Landing Facilities Planned

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 9, 2005 @05:05AM 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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They contact China by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-09 05:07 · Score: 0, Troll

After hearing about their plans to send people to space. They asked if they already had a landing site, and China said no. So they offered to let them use theirs for a small price, but they passed. When asked why, they explained that while they were sending people to space, they had no plans to bring them back.