FAA approves Oklahoma Spaceport
AP - 6/13/2006 12:47 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A proposed space port in western Oklahoma has won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration for an operator’s license.
The FAA announced today its issuing a non-federal commercial launch site operator license to the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority for its spaceport at Burns Flat.
The development authority will still need a separate launch license or permit from the FAA before sending commercial flights into space.
Operators of the spaceport hope to run a space tourist business by selling tickets to suborbital flights into space that would take off and land at the former Clinton-Sherman Airpark in Burns Flat.
I worked at the Dallas Cowboy summer camp as an equip. mgr in college with a guy from The OSU. He taught me a “nice” version of the Michigan fight song…
5 points for you, Pika!! You had the attention to detail to call it The OSU, as is proper. There are lots of OSU-Michigan slam songs, and I’m sure there are several from the dark side as well.
I used to have a t-shirt that had Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes) standing on OH w/ an OSU helmet on, pissing on MI. The back of the shirt read “Ann Arbor is a Whore.”
While I’m reminiscing, I also had a shirt that read “The Only Sign of Life in Ann Arbor.” It was a green highway sign from Rte. 23 that said “Columbus 123 Miles.”
The only thing good coming out of that craphole known as Stillwater is the vet school, Garth Brooks, Barry Sanders, Thurman Thomas, and Robin “I got my ass kicked by a 40 year old man (Nolan Ryan)” Ventura, aka Garth Brooks’ roommate.