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Old Posted Jan 30, 2021, 5:32 PM
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Thanks for sharing that! I hadn't heard anything about it in a while and stopped tracking the news on it. It's too bad Michigan did not make the cut for the new US Space Command HQ (though not surprising). So, if fully-realized -
*Kincheloe is a bit of an oddity, in a way. After the Air Force Base closed in the 1970's and 10,000 jobs left the area, the community that supported it managed to hang on as an unincorporated community and pivot to a prison-centric employment base. There's still a pseudo-town there with suburban-esque cul-de-sacs. It's rather bizarre really, at least compared to the traditional growth of most Michigan towns.

That rendering you shared is of the proposed vertical launch site, near Marquette. As another article mentions, "We’re not building a Cape Canaveral" - but this is still going to have an uphill battle (especially this site, since it is a natural landscape without pre-existing infrastructure like the other two sites).
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