SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Calls for New Commercial Spaceport

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Calls for New Commercial Spaceport : US : Latinos Post: ""There's an important need for Air Force space launch bases as there is for Air Force airports," Musk later told an audience gathered at a South by Southwest festival event hall. He named the spaceports run by the Air Force at Cape Canaveral in Florida and Vandenberg in California. "But then there's also a need for commercial airports," Musk said, adding that such space travel hubs need to be close to the Equator and able to launch missions --- making Texas a leading candidate, the San Antonio Express-News reported him saying.
Musk disputed the idea his outfit is competing with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which is currently Spacex's biggest customer. Then again, "We lost the will to explore and lost the will to push the boundary," Musk said of the U.S. space program. But, regardless, he said, "the United States is a nation of explorers; the United States is a distillation of the human spirit of exploration." Musk has said he started SpaceX in an attempt to spur Congress to increase NASA's funding for human missions to Mars" (read more at link above)


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