Cape Breton Joins Space Race

[Posteritatis]

Toronto Star:

The Toronto Star has learned that Nova Scotia has signed a "team agreement" to provide 300 acres of land — and perhaps even some funding — for a massive orbital launch facility that will involve industry giants and could eventually be on scale with huge NASA operations.

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Nova Scotia, which confirmed the agreement late yesterday (Aug. 15 - Posteritatis), could not be happier.

Like New Mexico, which is making a huge investment in a spaceport for commercial use, it envisions virtually unlimited economic spinoffs as private enterprise goes to space.

As someone who grew up in Cape Breton, this simultaneously stuns and delights me. If it pans out, it's the kinda shot in the arm the region really desperately needs economically and otherwise, and as a space nut I like seeing things like this happen without getting lobotomized by overpoliticized government funds.

And, well, it's kinda inherently Goddamned Cool. ;)