'But what I came to slowly realize is, little by little, they were chipping away at the size of the rocket they said they could launch, misrepresenting things, and spending all this money on consultants. They had carte blanche,' said Jim Goodman
im Goodman graduated from high school in Camden County, Georgia, in the thick of the space race, in 1965. Ten years ago, he came home to a place not so different from the one he left—largely rural, few career opportunities, sparse economic development.
“When the spaceport first was announced, I was so much in favor of it—I would love to see an economic engine in Camden County,” Goodman, now a city councilman in the county’s only city, St. Marys, population 18,000, told The Daily Beast. “But what I came to slowly realize is, little by little, they were chipping away at the size of the rocket they said they could launch, misrepresenting things, and spending all this money on consultants. They had carte blanche.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Inside the Weird, High-Powered World of Executive CoachesExecutive coaches, once stigmatized as a remedial measure for floundering leaders, have more recently emerged as something of a status symbol in the C-suites
Read more »
Top Climate Publisher Has Played Major Role in Supporting Fossil Fuel IndustryElsevier, a Dutch company behind many peer-reviewed journals, works with industry to help increase oil and gas drilling.
Read more »
Opinion | Big Oil Is Trying to Profit from the War in UkraineThe fossil fuel industry should be forced to fund the clean energy transition, not allowed to make even more money as the Ukrainian people suffer, writes jamieclimate.
Read more »
Is there a future for digital fashion in the Metaverse?Will Metaverse executives promote fashion in the masses, helping the newly emerged digital fashion industry to be the next big thing in the space?
Read more »
NASA's Roman telescope could spot Earth-like planets | Digital TrendsJames Webb might be grabbing all the headlines right now, but NASA has big plans for another space-based telescope too: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Read more »