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Launch pad lease
Monday, April 14, 2014 18:54
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NASA on Monday (April 14) signed a 20-year lease with SpaceX for the use of Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39 in Florida. “This historic site, from which numerous Apollo and space shuttle missions began … is beginning a new mission as a commercial launch site,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, who as an astronaut lifted off from the same pad. SpaceX intends to use Complex 39A to launch its Falcon Heavy and Falcon 9 rockets, including crewed missions.
Source: http://www.collectspace.com/index.html#0414142050
I hope it will herals a new chapter in future space history:
human settling of space through free enterprising companies..
(only beware of the United Nations Space Treaty Organization)