Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Wisconsin: Home of Cheese Heads and Spaceships

Wisconsin legislators are backing a plan to allow the development of a private inland Spaceport, near Sheboygan, using Lake Michigan as a crashpad.
A proposal (Senate Bill SB-352) is on the table to create the Wisconsin Aerospace Authority with a Sheboygan-based center acting as Mission Control for private rocket launches.
The idea has merit, especially considering the latest Space launch techniques employed by Scaled Composites (and perhaps one day by The DaVinci Project) that don't require equatorial launch sites.
Ironic Florida legislators don't chase the same money, but I guess people there are happy working in restaurants and nightclubs for minimum wage...

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