"Governor Kaine committed to invest $1.3 million in the Virginia Spaceport. We can make Wallops Island the top commercial Spaceport in America, and I ask you to keep that money in place so that we can aggressively recruit aerospace companies and promote space tourism initiatives," said new Virginia Govenor Robert F. McDonnell in his first Address to the Joint Houses of the Virginia General Assembly, as prepared, delivered on Jan. 18, 2010 [video]. The fledgling commercial spaceport is gaining traction in political circles in Virginia with growing bipartisan support evidenced by an outgoing governor a Democrat and the incoming governor a Republican. While Virginia is not traditionally referenced in the space community as an aerospace state, the view of Virginia and the orbital launch capable commercial spaceport is changing.
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