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Mojave airport is not a spaceport
The Mojave Airport is a perfect place to test
airplanes and sounding rockets, but it is probably the worst place on Earth to locate the space rocket launch site -- Manhattan would be better. There is no ocean to the east of Mojave, so you cannot make cheap pressure-fed rockets, splash them down and reuse them. A big city (Los Angeles) is just 100 km south of Mojave. The nearest pacific coast is 130 km south west, next to Ventura, California. If you launch the real thing, you will have to launch it in the south west direction and hope it will not fall on Los Angeles. NASA should make the Kennedy Space Center available to independent rocket makers. |
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