http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/04/et-tu-dave/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=et-tu-dave Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/04/et-tu-dave/#comment-181877 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:47:09 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1968#comment-181877 With a thoughtful review of the Fla Today bit, they didn’t think this one out well. Certainly business that Kodiak would get would not be taken from Florida – with the huge difference in launch azimuths that the two places would serve. If Rep Weldon had agreed to advise Wallops that might be different.
Assuming that the Alaska commission meets in Alaska, and Rep Weldon lives in Florida but has a lot of business in DC – if Gov Palin is ever elected President she will probably appoint Rep Weldon to run the FAA!!
This might be more of a “I’ll Scratch Your Back So You’ll Scratch Mine In 2012″ deal than anything else.

]]> http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/02/04/et-tu-dave/#comment-181831 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:31:16 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=1968#comment-181831 Yeah, That one was pretty transparent. Anyone who follows space even moderately closely would see immediately that it’s a totally different market. However, I will say that while the Alaska site won’t pull any business directly from the cape, there is a potential for establishing enough of a base outside of the cape to agitate for a private space defection to non-cape facilities. Given SpaceX’s move to Canaveral, my guess is it won’t be any time soon.

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