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Jim Kingdon wrote:

And here's another, at Cosmic Log, also with details I haven't seen
elsewhe http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/07/13/1086.aspx

He's really serious about the US thing, eh? (As also seen in the
America's Space Prize rules). He's building antennas in Hawaii and
Alaska (compare with NASA who has their biggest non-CONUS antennas in
Australia and Spain).

What's next? Guam and Samoa?

(Not that it's a bad thing; I can think of any number of reasons why
he'd want to do this...)

Off the top of my head, I can imagine that as a U.S. company, his legal
expenses go down pretty dramatically if he keeps it all within the U.S.

Or maybe he just believes in supporting the American economy as much as
he reasonably can -- but he'll (quite reasonably) go to Russia for a
launch if there are no viable American alternatives.

Best,
- Joe