A new aviation business park and long, isolated runways in eastern North Carolina could be keys to attracting commercial space-travel companies here, according to experts who attended a forum Thursday at Elizabeth City State University.
Leaders in the industry spoke during the daylong NewSpace Commerce Forum, including Jeff Greason, CEO of XCor Aerospace in California; Robert Richards, CEO of Odyssey Moon Lt d.; and Jeff Krukin, a consultant in the field who helped organize the forum.
For those wanting to travel internationally, you will still have to go to Charlotte, NC or Raleigh, NC. Everyone else looking to go to the Moon or Mars can just drive to the local spaceport. It’s nice that we won’t have to travel all the way to Cape Canaveral for intergalactic trips. On a more serious note, the rest of the above article is here.
