Saturday, July 09, 2005
Commercial Use of Shuttle Landing Facilities Planned
"There may be future non-NASA uses of the Shuttle Landing Facilities. At 15,000 feet long and 300 feet wide, the landing strip is larger than those at most commercial airports. From the article: 'NASA today issued a formal request for expressions of interest by non-NASA organizations, including commercial space companies, for use of the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. The announcement is the first step in considering how and when NASA can expand access to available capacity at the SLF by government, commercial, and academic organizations.' SPACE.com also covers this announcement."
source: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/09/1616239&tid=160&tid=14
source: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/09/1616239&tid=160&tid=14
# posted by dark master : 7/09/2005 04:32:00 PM
