Wednesday night, SpaceX launched what is being hailed as “the world’s first all-civilian mission to orbit” on Wednesday evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida). Inspiration4, crewed by two men and two women, will become another flashy bit of advertising for the new wonderful world of space tourism. Admittedly this flight, which...
Surely Houston would be able to convince Elon Musk to move his base of operations up to here from South Texas?Wednesday night, SpaceX launched what is being hailed as “the world’s first all-civilian mission to orbit” on Wednesday evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida). Inspiration4, crewed by two men and two women, will become another flashy bit of advertising for the new wonderful world of space tourism.
In fact, the flight will take the four-person crew to orbit about 360 miles above the globe, 93 miles higher than the International Space Station. The plan is to spend three to four days in orbit before splashing back down into the Atlantic, classic Mercury-era astronaut-style. So what does this have to do with Houston? Well, it should make you wonder about our own nascent launchpad to space, the Houston Spaceport that became officially under construction after a groundbreaking ceremony in June.After all, the Houston Airport System inked a deal to share information with NASA back in 2015
However, there’s one key thing that Houston is missing to make that into a reality. You know what the Houston Spaceport doesn’t have? SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, or Blue Origin. And it seems unlikely we’ll be getting any of their major launch business any time soon.
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