Talk:Spaceport
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Needs to be rewritten. Parts of the Kennedy Space Center are open to the public and a major tourist attraction. Parts of it are off limits, but so are parts of airports.
- At the current state of the art, a spaceport is a heavily secured government facility not open to the general public. Observation of space launches is only permitted from specific areas under heavy security. This is to prevent sabotage and terrorism.
This isn't true as far as I know.
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- Military spaceports are often hardened against nuclear warfare with buried silos supplementing exposed launch facilities.
Vandenberg and Canaveral don't have siloed launch sites, neither do the Russian or Chinese spaceport.
ICBM's are siloed, but those aren't for space launches.
- Strictly true, but if Orbital starts using Peacekeepers for satellite launches, then it will not be. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 14:36, 2005 Feb 1 (UTC)
Is it ok to list places that call themselves spaceports but haven't actually had a launch to space yet? I added the Oklahoma Spaceport. It was licensed by the FFA in 2001. Armadillo Aerospace has done some test flights there.
Complete(?) list of rockets launch sites, see rocket launch site
[edit] Palmachim?
Would it be proper to include Palmachim here? It is confirmed by Israel that it is used for launching orbital satellites.--Amir E. Aharoni 07:56, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] User:Mrld
Amire80 is right leave Palmachim on the list. They do launch satellites from the air force base there. User:Mrld
