After a study by the Federal Aviation Administration on environmental impacts, Georgia may receive approval to build a spaceport in July.
Georgia came one step closer to getting its own spaceport on Thursday after the Federal Aviation Administration issued its final study on potential environmental impacts, concluding that building the spaceport was the"preferred alternative."
This artist's sketch provided by Spaceport Camden shows the area of the proposed spaceport in Camden County, Ga. Since 2012, Officials in Camden County have spent nine years and $10 million pursuing a license to operate the 13th licensed, private spaceport in the U.S.Even if approved, there's no guarantee the project will fire its first rocket anytime soon. Despite increased demand for commercial launches in the past decade, more than half of licensed U.S.
If the Federal Aviation Administration grants Spaceport Camden a license, the county plans to buy 4,000 acres near the coast that during the 1960s was used to manufacture and test rocket motors forCamden County would join 19 total U.S. sites available to launch commercial rockets. Five are U.S. government sites such as Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Private landowners have more than 40 homes dotting Little Cumberland, though few live there year-round. Cumberland Island is a federally protected wilderness, known for wild horses and nesting sea turtles, that attracts an estimated 60,000 visitors and campers annually.
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