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Once Milton barreled its way out of the state, NASA and SpaceX teams returned to inspect the launch site at the spaceport in Cape Canaveral before later giving a green light for the craft to return to the launchpad ahead of Monday's launch.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
Starbase is one of four spaceports in the state – only Florida, with six, has more – and is home to 18 of the 20 largest aerospace manufacturing companies in the world, according to Texas 2036, a nonpartisan public policy think tank.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2024
Once the storm plowed into the Atlantic, teams returned to the spaceport to continue preparations and reschedule the launch.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
The Blue Origin spaceport is in Van Horn, for example, a West Texas town with about 2,000 people, just larger than the staff of an Amazon fulfillment center.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2024
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
Starbase is one of four spaceports in the state – only Florida, with six, has more – and is home to 18 of the 20 largest aerospace manufacturing companies in the world, according to Texas 2036, a nonpartisan public policy think tank.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2024
Once the storm plowed into the Atlantic, teams returned to the spaceport to continue preparations and reschedule the launch.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024
The Blue Origin spaceport is in Van Horn, for example, a West Texas town with about 2,000 people, just larger than the staff of an Amazon fulfillment center.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2024
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“Spaceport.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spaceport. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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spaceport
noun
space·port
ˈspā-ˌspō(ə)rt 
-ˌspȯ(ə)rt
: a place for testing and launching spacecraft
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