"Why should a billionaire from Las Vegas [Robert Bigelow] want to consider Virginia's fledgling orbital commercial spaceport? Why shouldn't he?" [The Daily Press, Hampton, Va.]
Virginia's commercial spaceport has the "right stuff" navigational particulars for space station operations; the business climate is good with a ZeroGravity, ZeroTax income tax policy of 2008; the Spaceflight Liability & Immunity Act first enacted by Virginia in 2007, and now emulated in Florida, Texas and New Mexico; strong bipartisan support for the spaceport in the state legislature; the Virginia congressional delegation is being awakened to the newfound opportunities being afforded NASA Wallops and NASA Langley with the presidential space policy and budget opportunities; and, successful orbital launches have been demonstrated three times in just the past three years, with many more to come starting next year --- > MORE.
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