CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
Here's a question for Team Rocketry at JC: What is with the sudden interest in private space exploration from west Texas and eastern New Mexico? Both Branson and Bezos invested considerable sums to build their facilities in what is otherwise a pretty damn remote part of the country without much going on. From a couple minutes of searching I can't see the reason for these locations. There isn't a metropolis nearby, nor do I see a large aerospace industry or college in these areas. All of which is usually necessary to recruit and retain talent.
Is it a geographical thing, just cheap land, or what? I've inhaled a lot of hydrocarbons since ground school, and I spend my free time flying low enough to smell fresh cut grass - so I can't recall if this is something as simple as being related to the height of the tropopause and thus a strategic advantage or not.
Help a guy out, what is the motive for making west Texas/ east New Mexico the epicenter of the private space race?
Is it a geographical thing, just cheap land, or what? I've inhaled a lot of hydrocarbons since ground school, and I spend my free time flying low enough to smell fresh cut grass - so I can't recall if this is something as simple as being related to the height of the tropopause and thus a strategic advantage or not.
Help a guy out, what is the motive for making west Texas/ east New Mexico the epicenter of the private space race?