Rickenbacker Spaceport?

Posted by ryan at 02:57 PM in science . | 0 Comments

State and local officials in Ohio are considering an incentive package that would lead the Canadian-American rocket venture PlanetSpace to put the manufacturing and landing facilities for its suborbital spacecraft at a former military air base near Columbus.

If PlanetSpace goes ahead with plans to put its suborbital facilities at Rickenbacker International Airport, which was once known as Lockbourne Air Force Base and now serves primarily as a cargo transport hub, Ohio would add another dot to a U.S. spaceport map that already includes sites in California, Florida, Oklahoma, Alaska, Virginia and Texas (plus perhaps New Mexico and even Wisconsin someday).