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One REALLY Long Runway for Rent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the freefall-is-good-unless-it's-your-budget dept.

DarkNemesis618 writes "NASA is looking into putting its 15,000 foot runway up for rent at the Kennedy Space Center. The runway, which is used for Space Shuttle landings, will soon be used less and less as the Shuttle fleet is set to be retired in 2010. The first private venture was seen last month when Steve Fossett took off at KSC in Virgin Atlantic's experimental plane. One promising deal in the works comes from Zero Gravity Corp. which offers customers a few seconds of weightlessness on a Boeing 727-200. The shuttle runway, built in the 1970s never got the use it was expected to, and with the next generation of space vehicles using parachutes to land, the runway is going to have even less use."

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  1. FIRST TROUT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I AM A FISH!

    1. Re:FIRST TROUT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I thought that was 'cunt smell' I smelled. But a fish? Well, you are first fish...older devil smell not on us, maybe still a nasty pink fuck-snootch i detect?

  2. (plus one InR7ormative) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to use the GNAA

  3. Yuo 7ail 1t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    of t4e GNAA I woot